March 2014

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Cloud and Web-scale Architectures
Roadmap for Mainstream Enterprises

Add scale one x86

server at a time

Flat and Software

simple driven to
datacenters reduce CapEx

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Google-like Infrastructure for the Enterprise

Converged Highly High Massive and

storage and distributed, performance linear scale-out
compute shared nothing commodity architecture
software hardware

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Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS)

Virtual Machine/Virtual Disk

Virtual Storage Control Virtual Storage Control

Flash HDD

Enterprise Storage Fastest Performance Hypervisor Agnostic

Clones, snapshots, Localization, tiering, vSphere, KVM,

replication, deduplication Hyper-V
compression, thin
provisioning
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Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform

Converged

Scale Software
Out Defined

Server
Hybrid
Flash
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What the Experts Are Saying

COMPLEXITY COST PERFORMANCE

Enterprises are “Storage accounts for “Maintaining high

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

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Flexible Enterprise Infrastructure

Server Desktop
Virtualization Virtualization

Enterprise Disaster
Big Data Branch Office Recovery
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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

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