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Publication Date: 2024-05-07 07:00:00
What is Nutanix?
Nutanix is a private and hybrid cloud software provider. It started as a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) pioneer that now markets its technology as a building block for private clouds.
The company was founded in 2009 by Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron and Ajeet Singh, and it is based in San Jose, Calif.
Nutanix started by offering hyperconverged appliances, which converge storage, compute and virtualization into one box. Initially targeting VMware customers, Nutanix branched out after VMware released its own virtual storage area network (VSAN) hyperconverged platform. The vendor’s products now support Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM hypervisors, as well as VMware vSphere and Nutanix’s own KVM-based Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV).
Nutanix now offers a hardware- and provider-agnostic software platform that focuses on managing virtualized resources from a single application. These products include a central management hub, management platform, unified storage, database management and virtual desktop infrastructure.
Nutanix software works with many vendors. Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners Dell and Lenovo rebrand Nutanix software on their x86 servers, and Nutanix channel partners package the vendor’s software on Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) servers. IBM also has an OEM deal with Nutanix to sell its software on Power servers. Their products also integrate with Amazon Web Services (
