Nutanix eyes Tier-II and III cities

In India, the company has over 1,000 employees, working from its Bengaluru and Pune facilities.

US-based Nutanix, a cloud software and ‘hyperconverged’ infrastructure solutions provider, plans to expand its presence in Tier-II and Tier-III cities and double its customer base and workforce in the next 18 months.

It is also open to acquiring start-ups to scale up operations and for talent.

“We have our own public cloud strategy to take to 50 cities as opposed to our presence in nine major cities now. With partners, we think we can make this possible… wherein the cloud operating systems is hosted by the partners. Like Uber, which is an asset-light company, we will take our software to partners in these 50 cities,” said Dheeraj Pandey, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Nutanix.