This document discusses Nutanix's converged infrastructure platform which combines storage and computing resources into a single system. It aims to provide Google-like infrastructure for enterprises with a software-defined, hyperconverged approach that offers linear scalability, predictable economics, and simplified management compared to traditional complex datacenter architectures. Nutanix has seen unprecedented customer adoption and has grown to become one of the fastest growing infrastructure companies of the last decade.

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March 2014

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Add scale one x86
server at a time
Flat and
simple
datacenters
Software
driven to
reduce CapEx
Cloud and Web-scale Architectures
Roadmap for Mainstream Enterprises

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Google-like Infrastructure for the Enterprise
Converged
storage and
compute
Highly
distributed,
shared nothing
software
High
performance
commodity
hardware
Massive and
linear scale-out
architecture

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Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS)
Virtual Storage Control Virtual Storage Control
Virtual Machine/Virtual Disk
Flash HDD
Enterprise Storage
Clones, snapshots,
replication,
compression, thin
provisioning
Fastest Performance
Localization, tiering,
deduplication
Hypervisor Agnostic
vSphere, KVM,
Hyper-V

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Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform
Scale
Out
Hybrid
Converged
Software
Defined
Server
Flash

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COMPLEXITY PERFORMANCE
“Maintaining high
performance while
scaling is a top 3
storage challenge.”
Forrester Research
Forrester Research
Survey on Storage for
Virtual Servers
What the Experts Are Saying
Enterprises are
struggling “to meet
service levels with a
rigid storage
architecture, for
example, that can’t
keep up with a highly
consolidated and
automated virtual
server environment.”
COST
“Storage accounts for
40% to 60% of the
total cost of SHVD
cost per desktop.”
Gartner
Storage Design
Alternatives for Virtual
Desktop Deployments,
January 2013

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Flexible Enterprise Infrastructure
Desktop
Virtualization
Server
Virtualization
Big Data
Disaster
Recovery
Enterprise
Branch Office

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Pay-As-You-Grow
Scale incrementally one node
at a time
Protect infrastructure
investment by eliminating
forklift upgrades
Scale storage capacity
and performance
independently

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Predictable Economics and Growth

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Simple Is Better

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User-centered Design
Intuitive. Beautiful. Insightful.

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“Nutanix can be regarded as a blueprint for this new
class of infrastructure offering.”
“So why are we so excited about Nutanix? We believe
the company represents the next-generation of IT
infrastructure – a converged storage and compute
platform uniquely able to cost-effectively power the
datacenters of today and tomorrow.”
“Converged storage makes SAN look like the
mainframe.”

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Unprecedented Customer Adoption
FAA Dept. Energy

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Built for Long-Term Success
 Incorporated in 2009
 Record $172M raised from top-tier investors
 Core team from Google, Facebook, VMware, NetApp,
Oracle, Citrix, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco
 100% worldwide channel model
 Widely recognized as innovative and disruptive

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The Fastest Growing Infrastructure
Company of the Last Decade