“[PernixData and Calm.io] have dreamt big and persevered against great odds to build phenomenal products”.
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Nutanix has already completed the acquisition of Bangalore, India-based Calm.io, which has with offices in Pleasanton, California; while the process of acquiring San Jose-based PernixData is presently underway.
“With Calm integrated with Prism, customers will finally be able to choose the right cloud for the right workload, achieve seamless application mobility while experiencing the same simple, delightful, and consistent experience they have come to love and respect about Nutanix”, he said.
The deal is a move to grow Nutanix’s business while remaining in the private market, despite the company filing for an IPO in December.
The Cloud & Infrastructure Summit returns this autumn on 22 September.
Founded in 2009 by Dheeraj Pandey, Nutanix’s enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to converge compute, virtualisation and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. PernixData makes a data storage accelerator and a scale-out analytics engine for virtualized data centers, a couple of products that Nutanix lacked and that are important in designing and building new-age data centers.
Calm.io, meanwhile, is the developer of a DevOps automation platform, and will add application and service orchestration, runtime lifecycle management and policy-based governance across environments to Nutanix’s features. The previous week, Nutanix said it had validated its Enterprise Cloud Platform software running on Cisco’s C-Series UCS servers, putting it head to head with Cisco’s own Hyperflex offering, based on software from another partner, Springpath.
“The synergies between the two companies, around the culture, team, commitment to product excellence and attention to detail and lastly ambition, are truly remarkable and we expect this to be a 1+1 = 3 as the two companies come together”, he said. Investors in PernixData include Marc Benioff, the chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, as well as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Steve Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate Technology.
The companies’ focus will be on reducing the inertia of application data that inhibits workload mobility across virtual and cloud environments.
Nutanix has snapped up a couple of companies, PernixData and Calm.io, to extend its enterprise cloud platform.
“One thing that keeps both these companies going is innovation”, PernixData CEO and Co-founder Poojan Kumar said on a call with reporters.
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In its announcement, Nutanix highlighted the commonalities – mostly in philosophies and software-driven approaches – between its team and the Calm.io and PernixData organizations.
