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| Company type | Public |
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| Founded | 2009; 17 years ago (2009) |
| Founders |
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| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | Rajiv Ramaswami (president &CEO) |
| Products |
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| Revenue |  US$2,538 million (2025) |
| US$173 million (2025) | |
| US$188 million (2025) | |
| Total assets | US$3,283 million (2025) |
| Total equity |  US$–695 million (2025) |
Number of employees | 7,800 (2025) |
| Website | nutanix |
| Footnotes / references Financials as of July 31, 2025[update].[1] | |
Nutanix, Inc. is an American cloud computing company that sells software for datacenters and hybrid multi-cloud deployments. This includes software for virtualization, Kubernetes, database-as-a-service, software-defined networking, security, as well assoftware-defined storage for file, object, and block storage.[2]
Nutanix was founded on September 23, 2009, byDheeraj Pandey,Mohit Aron and Ajeet Singh. In early 2013 Aron left Nutanix to startCohesity, a privately heldcomputer data storage company.[3] Singh cofoundedThoughtSpot in 2012.
Venture capital firms invested $312.2 million over five rounds of funding in Nutanix. The company reached a $1 billion valuation by 2013, which made it known as a "unicorn startup".[4] It raised $140 million in aSeries E round of financing in 2014, valuing the company at approximately $2 billion.[5]Nutanix's backers includedLightspeed Venture Partners,Khosla Ventures, andBlumberg Capital.[6]
Nutanix filed for aninitial public offering (IPO) in December 2015, reporting a net loss in its fiscal year ending July 2015 of $126 million.[7] In August 2016, Nutanix announced it had acquiredPernixData.[8]
The IPO on September 30, 2016, raised about $230 million after selling 14.87 million shares at a price of $16.[9][10] This was the biggest VC-backed IPO of 2016 in the U.S.[11] Analysts expected Nutanix's public offering would be delayed.[12]
In May 2017, Nutanix partnered withIBM to create a series of datacenter hardware appliances using IBM Power Systems forbusiness apps.[13]
In March 2018, Nutanix announced the acquisition of Minjar, based inBangalore[14] and Netsil,[15] a San Francisco-based cloud application monitoring startup. Later the same year, Nutanix acquired the DaaS startup Frame.[16]
On March 28, 2018, Nutanix partnered withHYCU to develop data protection software built forhyper-converged infrastructure environments.[17]
On June 1, 2019, Nutanix appointed Brian Stevens to its board of directors[18] and left in June 2025.[19] In March 2020,Sohaib Abbasi joined the company's board of directors.[20]
Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, Nutanix announced a furlough impacting about 1,500 employees in April 2020.[21] In June 2020, Nutanix added Virginia Gambale to its board of directors.[22]In December, 2020, Pandey was replaced as Chief Executive by Rajiv Ramaswami, who had been the Chief Operating Officer atVMware.[23]VMware filed a lawsuit, alleging a conflict of interest, but dropped the legal fight a year later.[24]
In 2021, the company transitioned from selling hardware appliances to focusing on subscription software.[25][26]
In 2022,MinIO alleged that Nutanix had been violating MinIO's free software license, and had done so for three years; with negotiations over the matter leading to no resolution,MinIO reported having revoked Nutanix's license.[27][better source needed] According to Adam Armstrong, writing forTechTarget.com, Nutanix "initially... deny[ied] any wrongdoing" but "walked that position back a week later", acknowledging it had "'discovered some inadvertent omissions in Nutanix Objects' open source attribution and notices required under the Apache 2.0 license,' and apologized for the oversight".[28]
In 2023, Nutanix acquired assets and personnel from D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere), enhancing Kubernetes and cloud-native capabilities.[29] Nutanix completed the integration and launched Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)[30] in March 2024, positioning it into the enterprise cloud-native management space.
In 2024, Nutanix announced the availability of external storage array support, with Dell PowerEdge[31] and Dell PowerFlex,[32] followed by Pure Storage Flash Array in 2025,[33] marking a strategic shift from its traditional hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) model.
| Date | Company | Description | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | PernixData | Software for virtualizing server-side flash memory and random-access memory. | [34] |
| August 2016 | Calm.io | DevOps automation platform | [35] |
| March 2018 | Netsil | Cloud application monitoring startup | [36] |
| March 2018 | Minjar | The maker of Botmetric, a service for public clouds. | [37] |
| August 2018 | MainFrame2 Inc. | Cloud-based Windows desktop and application delivery | [38] |
| May 2023 | Frame | Desktop-as-a-Service solution | [39] |
| December 2023 | D2iQ | Manage Kubernetes at scale easily |
Nutanix combinesstorage,computing, andvirtualization. The company's software product families include Acropolis, Prism, NDB, Frame, and Files.[40][41][42][43] In 2015, Nutanix was reported to have built a Linux KVM basedhypervisor, called AHV (Acropolis HyperVisor) in order to make managing computer infrastructure easier.[44]
Nutanix marketed its products as "hyper-converged infrastructure"[45] (HCI). In 2020, the company shifted to asubscription business model.[46] HCI combines compute, storage, virtualization, and networking into a single, unified platform. This foundational layer can be deployed on physical hardware in a data center, within a cloud-managed MSP environment, or directly in public clouds like AWS and Azure.
The Nutanix portfolio is centered around theNutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), which is designed to provide a consistent cloud operating model for all applications, whether they are on-premises or in public clouds. The platform aims to simplify hybrid multicloud environments, making them more cost-effective and manageable from a single interface.[47]
