Nutanix, a San Jose-based provider of hyperscale appliances, announced today two new solutions that “meet the cost, performance and scale requirements to run nearly any enterprise application.”

The NX-1000 is an entry-level system designed for use in SMB and branch office environments. For $22,500, customers get a 2U box that supports both 1Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet and comes with all the features of Nutanix’s flagship Virtual Computing Platform. These include pre-integrated replication, compression and backup software; flash-optimized data tiering; and a flat architecture that simplifies management and supports a wide range of use cases. The company boasts that the NX-1000 takes up as much as 80 percent less space than competing products.

The NX-6000 is a beefed up version of the NX-1000 that Nutanix purpose-built for large-scale VDI deployments, Big Data analytics and other resource-intensive enterprise workloads. Unlike the Virtual Computing Platform and a number of other converged infrastructure solutions, the system lets users scale storage and compute independently. The NX-6000 offers three times as much raw capacity as Nutanix’s first appliance and delivers between 35 TB to 70 TB of usable storage space in a 2U form factor. The solution is available for $60,000 per unit.

“With this new release, Nutanix adds new building blocks to its scale-out architecture, expanding the breadth of applications that its Virtual Computing Platform can address,” says Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman. “Wikibon research shows that flash architectures can significantly disrupt the economics of database deployment; the Nutanix NX-6000 targets this opportunity.”

Today’s announcement follows the opening of Nutanix’s Australian headquarters. The company said that it will complement the Sydney office with a support center in Melbourne that will serve customers and partners throughout the Asia Pacific region.