Nutanix, a quickly growing startup that came out of stealth mode about one year ago by announcing its integrated compute/storage appliance, has raised an additional US$33m in funding from existing and new investors.
The latest round of financing brings San Jose, California-based Nutanix’s total, since its inception, to $71.5m. The company said 75% of this is money for the future war chest.
Previously existing investors are Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and Blumberg Capital. The ones that have just come on board are Battery Ventures an Goldman Sachs.
Dheeraj Pandey, co-founder and CEO of Nutanix, said the company was in a perfect storm of paradigm shifts in the data enter, consisting of cloud, software-defined storage and server-side flash.
“Collapsing compute and storage was a radical idea when we took it to Bipul in late '09,” he said. “The market has spoken, and spoken resoundingly.”
Called Nutanix Complete Cluster, is solution enables a simple compute and storage infrastructure for implementing enterpirse-class virtualization without complex external network storage.
The team behind the company (which was founded in 2009) includes members that took part in the creation of scalable systems like the Google File System and enterprise systems like Oracle Data Base and Exadata.