Nutanix took to the seas for a Christmas Cruise last week around Sydney Harbour with ANZ staff, customers and partners to celebrate and say thank them for an incredible year for the company.

This past year, Nutanix set its sights on doubling its ANZ business – and quadrupling it within three years. The hyperconverged vendor's new ANZ boss highlights the Xpress SMB offering as a key growth area.

The company announced that for the coming year, the key focus locally will be Nutanix' Xpress appliance, designed to take the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform to business of 500 end users or below.

Recently, Nutanix gave its customers and partners a firsthand look at the new era of IT, exposing them to the potential of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform. Both events featured key speakers from Nutanix and its partners.