Nutanix Federal Government Business Expanded by 569%

Nutanix, Inc. announced that its federal government business has expanded by 569% from 2012 to 2013.

In just two years, the company’s web-scale infrastructure approach to transforming how datacenters are designed and managed has been implemented by 57 agencies – including the Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Health and Human Services and Justice, as well as three Department of Defense service branches and several intelligence agencies.

As a company, Nutanix has exceeded $100 million in sales in two years, driven in part by the growth within the government. Agencies rely on the company’s technology to address the challenges associated with traditional large-scale datacenter architectures such as poor scalability, lack of agility, network bottlenecks and unsustainable capital and operational costs.

“It is no secret that agencies are looking to consolidate and virtualize their IT environments,” said Gary A. Barlet, CIO, office of inspector general, US Postal Service. “Whether it’s transitioning to the cloud, eliminating datacenters, enabling continuity of operations or pursuing virtual desktops and bring your own device initiatives, any program must first take a look at the infrastructure required – that’s where it gets complicated and expensive. A major change to the traditional datacenter approach is in the air with the move towards web-scale IT.“

“In this ime of budget cuts, government needs to be more efficient,” said Anja Manuel, a partner at firm RiceHadleyGates, LLC, a strategic advisor to Nutanix. “Government offices that must reduce spending will need technology that simplifies and converges the various IT operations. Nutanix is one of the most innovative companies that can help them get there.“

The Nutanix web-scale infrastructure solution eliminates the need for costly and complex SANs by integrating performance storage and compute into one unified appliance. The company’s approach to datacenter convergence provides modular, building block scaling that enables agencies to start small and grow incrementally, resulting in cost savings and efficiency and ROI. The platform is simple and fast to install (deploys in about 45 minutes), requires little to no operation or management intervention and its performance is faster compared to legacy infrastructures.

“Our modularly-scalable Virtual Computing Platform is fundamentally changing the way government agencies are going about simplifying their datacenter operations,” said Dave Gwyn, VP, federal and FSI sales, Nutanix. “It’s a modern approach that has been widely accepted by agencies looking for new ways to accomplish datacenter consolidation, increase mobility and security and cut costs. Today’s government environment requires new thinking; agencies can no longer continue to speculate on dated, three-tier architectures that take months or years to provide ROI.“

Nutanix is recognized as one of the fastest growing enterprise technology company of the past decade, and most recently earned IDG’s InfoWorld 2014 Technology of the Year award.

Nutanix has an approximate $1 billion valuation.