Nutanix Pitches IPO on Success Luring Business From Big Rivals
- Fast growing hyperconverged market blends storage, servers
- Kellogg, Spirit Airlines pick Nutanix over EMC-VMware
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When Hilton Sturisky joined Spirit Airlines as chief information officer two years ago, the discount air carrier was weeks away from running out of data storage space and costs were getting “out of control.”
So he opted to move to what are called hyperconverged systems that combine server, storage and virtualization software in a single machine. In a deal worth several million dollars, he chose equipment from Nutanix Inc. rather than those from a joint venture of VMware Inc. and its parent company EMC Corp. Now the airline is saving money, he said.