Infrastructure vendor Nutanix has declared it took US$200m of orders in the year ending July 31^st, as demand for web-scale foundations for building data centers boomed.

The Californian startup, which claims to have invented a converged infrastructure module that makes data center building simpler and faster, reported its eleventh consecutive quarter of growth.

Nutanix, founded in 2009, now sells into 43 different countries.

Nutanix’s sales channel received a significant boost in June when it announced an agreement with Dell to build the XC Web-scale Converged Appliance.

The Dell-branded XC Series combines Nutanix software with Dell hardware and is scheduled for general availability in Q4 2014.

Nuntanix's channel VP Steve Kaplan said the deal would be a massive boost for the channel as Dell’s endorsement is an endorsement of the technology and a convincer for buyers who may be nervous about a new technology concept.

There is a significant revolution happening in the data center and the industry at large is just beginning to recognize it, according to Nutanix's SVP of sales and business development Sudheesh Nair.

“We take a fundamentally different approach to building enterprise data centers and we believe it’s forcing established vendors to rethink their strategy,” Nair said.

Nair said the firm will continue to invest aggressively in all functions, particularly in engineering, in the years ahead.

Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey founded the company after a career building data centers for web giants such as Amazon.

The company was founded on the concept that networking, processing and storage devices could be managed more cost effectively by software definition.

In January it raised $101m in venture capital to fund channel expansion and product research.