Faiz Shakir highlights India as Nutanix top R&D market

India is becoming the company's largest research and development (R&D) hub and a strategic growth market as a result of Nutanix's expansion of its R&D there.

The US-based enterprise cloud software company sees its R&D facilities in Bengaluru and Pune transform from a focal point for talent to a strategic innovation powerhouse as cloud use soars and digital infrastructure becomes the cornerstone of business strategy.

 Nutanix's vice-president and managing director for Southern Asia, Faiz Shakir, discusses the company's expansion goals in India with Sudhir Chowdhary. For several years, India has been one of Nutanix's fastest-growing markets in APAC, and among the fastest-growing markets globally. Numerous large enterprises from numerous sectors are proactively adopting digital transformation and cloud strategies.

In India's largest banks, insurance behemoths, IT/ITeS players and manufacturers, Nutanix is enabling mission-critical deployments that are driving growth in our business.

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Our unified platform allows organizations to run their applications and manage their data from anywhere. That level of simplicity is enticing to organizations because we enable the integration of their infrastructure, manage it in a single pane of glass, and offer the potential of flexibility, AI and cloud migration.

Moreover, company’s remarkable overall growth of 19% during the period, Nutanix's India sales increased by 33% in the fourth quarter of FY25, which concluded in July.

This makes India the largest market in Asia-Pacific and Japan for Nutanix for the first time. Lenovo is one of Nutanix's main Indian partners. We have strengthened our collaboration to provide enterprise cloud infrastructure that is AI-ready and suited to regional requirements.