No. 1: Nutanix
HCI Software Q2 2020 Share: 52.8%
Nutanix won the gold medal for hyperconverged software share in the second quarter of 2020 by capturing $197 million in sales, up 8.6 percent year over year. The San Jose, Calif.-based hybrid cloud software superstar won more than half of the worldwide market with 52.8 percent share, up from 48.3 percent share in second-quarter 2019.
Nutanix sells NX appliances and HCI software only via OEMs such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and Dell Technologies. Gartner does not include Nutanix HCI software sales from third-party hypervisors in its quarterly HCI software market-share measurement.
According to Forester analysts, Nutanix has the best-ranked hyperconverged software product in the world with Nutanix AOS. In the new “Forrester Wave: Hyperconverged Infrastructure Q3 2020” report, Nutanix AOS version 5.16 had near-perfect scores in terms of product offering, strategy and market presence.
