Nutanix has raised $33 million in Series C funding from investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, as well as new investors Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs. This round of investments brought the company up to $71 million in finances, so now the company can expand in sales, marketing, support and double up on R&D.

Nutanix has over 70 customers, some of which are in technology, healthcare, advertising, higher education and US federal, and most are repeat consumers. Based in San, Jose California, the company was founded in 2009 by a team that built systems like the scalable Google File System, and Oracle Database/Exadatsa, which is an enterprise-class system.

This is the first company to offer software-defined storage into x86 servers, which are not expensive. Elastic scale-out technologies are also included, which were not accessible to just any company in the past. Before it was only available for some of the world’s largest and technically sophisticated companies such as Google and Facebook and now it is available to mid-range enterprises as well as the larger ones.

The new SDS has been compared to Nicira’s Software Defined Network system, which was the first of its kind as well. Both companies share one common denominator: they are both Lightspeed portfolio companies.

According to the Business Insider, Nutanix Complete is now known as the first datacenter in a box to consumers. Between the simplified appliance form factor, the Software-defined Storage system (SDS) and the inexpensive compute, customers seem to have a lot to be excited about.

According to reports, another main reason to get excited about Nutanix is because it represents the new generation of IT infrastructure with the converged storage and compute platform which will be able to power datacenters in the present as well as the future and do it in a cost-efficient way.