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Fine funding for SimpliVity: Firm flies high with $175m boost

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Nutanix vs SimpliVity – let battle commence

Nutanix, similarly founded in 2008, has scored $312.6m funding, according to our figures, across six rounds, with two in 2014 bringing in $241 million.

It seems both Nutanix and SimpliVity are in a race to build out their infrastructure and channels before mainstream vendors, all piling into building VMware EVO:RAIL converged systems, can close them out of their customer bases.

EMC has announced VSPEX BLUE as its response to the success Nutanix and SimpliVity are having, and that uses EVO:RAIL and is built by EMC channel members.

SimpliVity has partnering deals with Dell and Cisco and has a presence on 50 countries via its reseller channel.

The cash will be used “to fund the rapid expansion of the company and address the explosive market opportunity. Gartner predicts total integrated system spending will grow by a 24 per cent CAGR from 2013 through 2018, reaching a total of $19bn".

Could it overtake Nutanix?

Accel Partners' Kevin Comolli thinks it's possible, and gave us this canned quote: “SimpliVity has pioneered the hyperconverged infrastructure market and will emerge as a category leader. After just 23 months shipping product, the company has achieved an unprecedented sales trajectory.”

With Scale Computing, Maxta, and Pivot3 also active startups in the market (and mainstream vendors jumping in too) 2015 is set to be a hair-raising hyperconverged systems ride.

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