Nutanix, an emerging provider of modular cloud infrastructure solutions, has launched its first Australian office in Sydney earlier this week. The new outlet is the eighth international office that the San Jose-based company has opened in the past 12 months.

Nutanix says that its next Asia Pacific destination is Melbourne, which it chose as the location for an upcoming support center that will serve customers and partners throughout the region.

“The high adoption of virtualised infrastructures and the growing demand for centralised data storage by Australian and New Zealand organisations is driving this rapid take-up of our converged solution,” said Vignesh Shashidhar, an Australia-based Northern Region Territory Account Manger for Nutanix. “In addition to addressing customers’ compliance and security concerns, we can also help them rapidly deploy new compute and storage infrastructure to meet the ever-increasing demand for secure access to information that is stored centrally.”

Nutanix’s aggressive push into new markets is a response to increasing demand from corporate customers. Last month, the company revealed that it has achieved an annualized run rate of over $80 million a mere six months after its flagship Virtual Computing Platform launched into general availability. Nutanix credits its growth to the hyperscale properties of its modular cloud appliance. The company claims that its box is easier to deploy and cheaper to scale than traditional SAN and NAS products, two major advantages that have helped draw the attention of both enterprise users and IT vendors.

A couple weeks ago, the company announced that Citrix certified its Virtual Computing Platform for use in XenDesktop environments. Nutanix marked the landmark by releasing a reference architecture for several XenDesktop configurations, including those that have Machine Created Services (MCS) and Provisioning Services (PVS) enabled.