Nutanix Signed OEM Agreement With Dell

Nutanix, Inc. has signed an OEM agreement with Dell, Inc. to offer a new family of converged infrastructure appliances based on Nutanix web-scale technology.

The combination of Nutanix’s software running on Dell’s industry servers delivers a flexible, scale-out platform that brings IT simplicity to modern datacenters. The Nutanix and Dell collaboration is designed to deliver web-scale technology to enterprisese. The agreement also includes joint sales, marketing, support and service investments, as well as alignment of product roadmaps.

The new Dell XC Series of Web-scale converged appliances will be built with Nutanix software running on Dell PowerEdge servers, and will be available in multiple variants to meet a range of price and performance options. The appliances will deliver performance converged infrastructure for powering a spectrum of enterprise use cases, including VDI, virtualized business applications, multi-hypervisor environments.

Nutanix’s web-scale software runs on virtualization hypervisors including vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and open source KVM, and is able to span multiple hypervisors in the same environment.

The XC Series appliances are scheduled for availability in the fourth quarter of this year and will be sold by Dell sales teams and channel partners worldwide.

“Nutanix is a recognized leader in the converged infrastructure market with a software-driven offering that fits with Dell’s efforts to redefine datacenter economics and simplify IT for our customers,” said Alan Atkinson, VP and GM, Dell storage. “By combining market-leading infrastructure and software technologies from both companies with Dell’s world-class go-to-market capabilities,we believe our new solutions will be positioned to be a significant player in the growing, multi-billion dollar converged infrastructure market.“

“Dell is a world-class leader in servers, storage and networking, and has established itself as a valuable IT partner for many of the world’s largest organizations,” said Dheeraj Pandey, co-founder and CEO, Nutanix. “Nutanix is teaming with Dell to accelerate our global sales growth through Dell’s vast direct and channel sales networks. In Dell, we chose a company that shares our vision of disrupting traditional datacenter infrastructures with intelligent software running on x86 hardware to power all datacenter services.“

Web-scale infrastructure is a new approach to designing, deploying and managing datacenters that are simple and efficient. Web-scale architectures and technologies were pioneered in large cloud and web companies – such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon – and are now being adopted by mainstream enterprises.