Nutanix trumpets quarterly expansion

Infrastructure vendor talks up ongoing customer acquisition

US-based converged-system start-up Nutanix is boasting performance improvements per quarter and expects to see revenue reach $200m (£119m) this year.

The three-year-old privately held firm, which has about 400 staff and targets medium-sized to large enterprises, has closed its "best quarter ever" with a $50m take from 800 customers across 43 countries.

Sudheesh Nair, senior vice president of sales and business development at Nutanix, said in a statement: "We believe there is a revolution happening in the datacentre that the industry at large is just beginning to recognise.

Nutanix has a "fundamentally different" approach to building enterprise datacentres, said Nair: "We believe it is forcing established vendors to rethink their strategy. We intend to invest aggressively in all functions, particularly in engineering."

As reported on ChannelWeb, June saw Nutanix sign a deal with Dell which will bring its "web-scale" XC appliances within reach of Dell partners by the end of this year. It is also a VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Splunk, OpenStack, Arista, Veeam and Unidesk partner.

The company garnered $101m in funding in January from investors who valued the firm at $1bn.

However, major analysts do not seem particularly interested in the channel-only firm as yet, with few third-party reports publicly available beyond what Nutanix itself promotes on its website.

One main competitor is Simplivity, founded in 2009, which also makes converged server-systems, billed as "datacentre in a box" offerings. The name of the game is to find a way to simplify cloud and virtualisation applications.