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Nutanix

Hybrid multicloud and hyper-converged infrastructure.

Nutanix builds the hybrid multicloud platform that runs and manages applications and data across private and public clouds, built on hyper-converged infrastructure.

Red Education is a Nutanix Authorised Training Partner, recognised by Nutanix as Highest Quality and Top Performing Authorized Training Partner of the Year, with a 98% customer-satisfaction rating on its Nutanix courses.

Founding stories

2009

Nutanix

San Jose, California · Founders: Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron, Ajeet Singh

Nutanix asked why the data center needed a SAN at all. Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron - who had worked on the Google File System, the mother document of distributed storage - and Ajeet Singh founded the company in 2009 to collapse compute and storage into one scale-out tier: commodity servers, a distributed file system across them, virtual machines on top. The industry named it hyperconverged infrastructure and drew a category around what Nutanix was already selling; Aron would later leave to found Cohesity and apply the same distributed-systems DNA to backup.

The timeline

  1. Founded on Google-style storage

    Three founders with distributed-systems pedigree start building a scale-out platform where every node contributes compute and storage - the SAN designed out of the architecture.

  2. 'No SAN'

    The first Virtual Computing Platform ships with a marketing line that names the revolution; hyperconverged infrastructure becomes the fastest-drawn category of the decade with Nutanix as its axis.

  3. AHV: the free hypervisor

    Nutanix ships its own KVM-based Acropolis Hypervisor, turning the VMware relationship from symbiosis toward rivalry - own the platform, and the hypervisor becomes a feature.

  4. IPO: NTNX

    The September Nasdaq listing is the year's marquee enterprise-tech IPO - the HCI category leader arriving on the public market mid-transition from appliances to software.

  5. Bain, and the founder departs

    Bain Capital's $750 million convertible investment lands alongside Dheeraj Pandey's retirement announcement; Rajiv Ramaswami, VMware's COO, takes over in December - and VMware sues over the hire, a suit later resolved as the subscription pivot accelerates.

  6. The Broadcom dividend

    As Broadcom's VMware acquisition upends licensing across the industry, Nutanix Cloud Platform with AHV becomes the canonical migration conversation - the alternative platform argument the company had built toward for a decade.

Flagship products and solutions

  • Nutanix Cloud PlatformThe HCI core grown up: distributed storage (AOS), the AHV hypervisor, and management under one subscription platform.
  • AHVThe built-in KVM-based hypervisor - the piece that turned an infrastructure vendor into a virtualization platform.
  • Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)The same stack running on AWS and Azure bare metal - hybrid cloud as one operating model.

Key innovations

  • Hyperconvergence itselfNutanix turned web-scale distributed storage into an enterprise product and forced the industry - VMware vSAN included - to follow the architecture it proved.
  • The one-click operating modelPrism's design standard - upgrades, capacity, and recovery as single actions - reset expectations for how infrastructure software should feel to operate.

Main markets

A leader of the HCI market it created, selling the Cloud Platform across private and public clouds - with the post-Broadcom VMware estate as the defining competitive opportunity of its current chapter.

Analyst standing

  • A Leader in the hyperconverged evaluations from their first editions, trading the top position with VMware through the category's whole history.

Red Education recognition

  • Nutanix Highest Quality and Top Performing Authorized Training Partner of the Year
  • Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2025 - Best Cybersecurity Education Provider
  • Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2025 - Best Cybersecurity Certification Training
  • Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2025 - Cybersecurity Instructor Team of the Year
  • 100,000+ students trained across 132 countries; 4.9-star average from 5,000+ reviews