San Jose, CA-based Nutanix Inc. provides enterprise cloud operating system that combines server, storage, virtualization and networking software into one integrated solution. Nutanix’s solution can be delivered either as an appliance that is configured to order or as software only. The company currently offers two software product families — Acropolis and Prism.

Acropolis includes Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) that supports a wide variety of enterprise applications and has the capability to operate both virtualized and non-virtualized applications. The solution also includes Application Mobility Fabric (AMF), leading to increasing levels of application placement, conversion and migration across different hypervisors and public clouds. It also has a built-in Acropolis hypervisor (AHV), based on Linux KVM.

Prism helps in automating IT management. The solution enables efficient regulation of enterprise-wide deployments by serving as a central administration point to manage multiple clusters and hypervisors (including VMware ESXi environments) within a datacenter or across multiple sites. Prism is built with HTML5 and can be accessed from any connected device that is HTML5-enabled including smartphones and tablets.

Nutanix generated revenues of $1.86 billion in fiscal 2023. Subscriptions, Non-Portable Software, Hardware and Professional Services accounted for 93%, 2%, 0.1% and 4.9% of revenues, respectively.

The company faces stiff competition from software providers, such as VMware; traditional IT systems vendors, namely Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM and Lenovo; traditional storage array vendors like NetApp and providers of public cloud infrastructure and services, such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.