Storage Hardware Producer Raises $13.2M

As Gigaom reports, storage hardware maker Nutanix has raised $13.2 million in a Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital. Customers concerned with scalability and performance will appreciate that the company is developing an appliance combining computing and storage on the same server nodes. Nutanix boasts top notch knowledge when it comes to scale-out architectures and appliances.

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"The key to Nutanix is virtualization, which provides the abstraction and the additional storage connections necessary to give Nutanix the performance edge it claims. The company is big on solid-state drives for performance and consolidation, but Pandey says legacy storage systems are limited to the amount of SSDs they can handle. With a virtualized computing layer, however, each virtual server and each physical node provide the requisite housing and connection to an additional SSD. The Nutanix appliance combines both SSDs and hard disk drives to achieve maximum levels of performance and affordability, Pandey said.”

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