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About Us

3Wire supports the greatest revolution in the data center in the last 10 years - Virtual Compute Software Defined Storage built upon Nutanix's distributed file system. Traditional data center architecture employs separate tiers of servers (HP, Dell) and storage (EMC, NetApp) with network hardware (Cisco, HP) bridging the gap. This technology design did serve the needs of corporations from the mid 1990's to the early 2000's quite well. However, the concept of server virtualization exploded in the early 2000's and it was a game changer. This old three tier approach is no longer sufficient for today's virtualized data centers.

SAN and NAS-based architectures were not designed to handle the explosion of VMs and the resulting I/O demands of today’s enterprise. SAN & NAS have quickly becoming the handicap of today's data center. Fortunately, architects from leading data centers (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) recognized this problem and essentially threw out the old "playbook". These geniuses astutely eliminated network storage and designed a highly distributed file system which removed the complexity of a storage network. This revolutionary redesign of converging compute and storage resources into a single tier removed the need for a complex storage network, a much better approach.

Amazingly, this new revolutionary computer storage convergence eliminates the need for network-based storage, SAN and NAS. The infrastructure convergence pioneered by Nutanix preserves the benefits of shared storage and reduces the cost and complexity of the storage network. It greatly increases overall data center performance, scalability, and efficiency. By integrating data center intelligence into software instead of hardware, and eliminating costly network infrastructure, Nutanix achieved unheard of economics by eliminating the need to upgrade hardware simply to achieve greater performance or scale, while still increasing overall reliability. 100,000 IOPs, local flash storage, no network based bottlenecks ... the future is here with Nutanix.