![]() ![]() It remains to be seen how this marriage will play out. Notably, according to recent financials, it seems that none of the flash vendors are out of the red in their revenue – despite high sales and popular demand of flash, many still managed to lose a significant portion of money. “Such acquisitions underscore our belief that the industry is consolidating quickly with long-term winners likely to be companies that have critical mass and a broad technology foundation that can truly bring transformational benefits to their customers’ IT environments.” Nimble’s bottom line seems to agree with this acquisition and applauds the forward thinking move applied by Nutanix it’s still laced with a competitive edge of infrastructure vs the lack thereof. ![]() While Nutanix focuses on the elimination of physical infrastructures Nimble, while agreeing with the benefits of this acquisition, have some strong input about how flash is a preferred option, where hyperconverged is virtually no competition. Nimble being a flash storage vendor, might be feeling the pressure being piled on by Nutanix, a hyperconverged player. You can read the full blog here, but a few notable points: The VP of Products in Nimble Storage was quick to jump on a comment piece, along with observations on the market trends. While you can read more of the wonderful benefits that will come along with this acquisition, according to Nutanix as well as perhaps what each company spokesperson has to say here what we found interesting was Nimble’s keen comment on this acquisition. With this release however, there have been no news on any financial numbers, or indeed staff affected on either of the 3 companies. ![]() Of course every acquisition we’ve seen in the market presents itself as an amicable and highly profitable marriage of sorts. Together, Calm.io and Nutanix plan to bring together clouds, platforms and people, on an elegantly simple pane-of-glass.” Nutanix plans to add cloud automation and management capabilities to its existing software stack to deliver application and service orchestration, runtime lifecycle management, policy-based governance, comprehensive reporting and auditing services to support all application environments, including virtual machines, containers and microservices. “The Calm.io and Nutanix teams will work to bring an application-first approach to choosing, managing and consuming IT infrastructure - enabling customers to pick the right cloud for each application. ![]() With this common vision, the two companies will develop an advanced data stack to replace traditional storage silos and high-latency networks with newer storage-class memory and advanced interconnects.” In Nutanix’s words, “Nutanix and PernixData share an architectural design philosophy that next-generation datacentre fabrics must keep data and applications close in order to drive the fastest possible performance and to deliver flexible, cost-effective infrastructure scaling. Last time we discussed about these acquisitions, we asked an industry expert on his opinion – and he agrees it’s a smart move for both parties involved, and puts Nutanix in the serious business category, after the less than ideal progression after going IPO. On top of that transaction, the deal with Calm.io has also closed. After 2 months of speculation, the word is finally out – Nutanix has executed the definitive agreement to buy PernixData. ![]()
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