Bengaluru builds the switchboard for Nutanix’s AI

Rajiv Ramaswami has spent much of his career building technology that people rarely see. At IBM Research, he worked on ways to carry information through strands of glass just as the internet was taking off. Today he runs Nutanix, whose software helps banks, retailers and chipmakers keep their computers running. Much of that software is designed in Bengaluru and Pune. Bengaluru is also home to most of the engineers building the company’s AI tools, says Ramaswami.Consider what it takes for a bank balance to appear on a phone. The customer sees the app and a number on the screen. Behind it, the bank needs computers to process the request and storage to hold the account data. Nutanix’s software lets the bank manage the capacity of many machines as a single pool, whether it owns those machines, rents them from a cloud provider or uses a mix of both. “Some of the world’s largest semiconductor companies operate their factories using us,” Ramaswami says. “Some of the large retailers deploy us across all their stores.”Nutanix reported $2.8 billion in revenue for the year ended July 2026. Ramaswami puts its customer base at about 30,000 worldwide, including about half the world’s 2,000 largest public companies. The teams in Bengaluru and Pune account for 40% of Nutanix’s global patents, he says. “Every product that we build, the India team has had a major role to play.”

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