Rajiv Ramaswami, Nutanix CEO, has said that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in customers shifting to a subscription model to save money. Business in India, Ramaswami said, grew 68% for the cloud-infra firm, while the company itself grew 14%. The CEO said the growth is expected to continue, with the company adding 700 customers every quarter to its already 20,000 strong customer count.
Source: Communication Today
The healthcare sector is rapidly adopting a hybrid cloud model, with 95% of the respondents agreeing that hybrid is the ideal choice, said a Nutanix report. 70% said that due to the pandemic IT is viewed more strategically and has accelerated digitalisation. ” Healthcare firms has increased adoption of public cloud (56%), hybrid cloud (51%) and has invested (46%) more in private cloud environments,” said Faiz Shakir, Country Head, India and SAARC, Nutanix.
Nutanix’s India business grew 68% in 2020 following rapid digital and cloud adoption. The cloud infrastructure firm showed 14% growth globally. “India is driving global growth for Nutanix and is leading in significant adoption in large verticals like banking and IT,” said Faiz Shakir, director and country head-enterprise and commercial business-India and SAARC, Nutanix. Nutanix new clients and partners grew 25% last year.
Hybrid cloud is the only IT model showing a whopping 39% growth among financial companies in the next 5 years said Nutanix a report for financial services. The report said that half the respondents ended up increasing their investment in hybrid cloud during the pandemic. About 43% of BFSI firms are expected to spend more in the private cloud in the coming year.
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Nutanix appoints Rajiv Ramaswami as president and CEO. He will replace co-founder Dheeraj Pandey. Ramaswami brings 30 years of experience to the position, including his tenure with Broadcom, Cisco, Nortel and IBM — in addition to his most recent stint at VMware as COO of Products and Cloud Services. Nutanix, founded in 2009, has raised more than $600 mn. The company went public in the year 2016.
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