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| And by that, I mean just our team is able to get better pricing at the time of renewal, which is good |
| In closing, we are encouraged that the compelling value proposition of our cloud platform and the strength of our business model enable us to increase our top and bottom line outlook for fiscal 2024 |
| Q2 marked our first ever quarter of positive GAAP operating income of $37 million and a positive GAAP net income of $33 million, with fully diluted GAAP EPS of $0.12 per share |
| Taking a closer look at the second quarter, we were happy to have exceeded all of our guided metrics |
| We delivered record quarterly revenue of $565 million and grew our ARR 26% year-over-year to $1.74 billion |
| We also had another quarter of strong free cash flow generation |
| Finally, we achieved quarterly GAAP operating profitability for the first time in Q2, demonstrating the progress we continue to make on driving operating leverage in our subscription model |
| The HCI capabilities are continuously gotten better over time where HCI they can run pretty much all enterprise workloads on the platform, and in many cases can do so with better performance even than legacy architectures |
| And I would say, you know, we, I am optimistic, and I think this opportunity is also going to build up over time |
| And overall, it's helping uplevel the talent that we have in the company and I'm very happy about that |
| And we think that this is a significant multi-year opportunity for us to win new customers and to gain share |
| And so I would say we as a company are getting better and better at going after these types of opportunities |
| We see this win as a good example of the value customers see in our cloud platform for both, modernization and providing a seamless pathway to the public cloud |
| So overall, again, I would say, you know, pretty strong quarter from renewals perspective, and generally these are all the outperformance driven by things that we like to see, so nothing that I would sort of characterize as better than expected, certainly, but allows us to sort of suddenly manage the business on a more predictable basis going forward |
| And we believe that this higher mix of larger deals in the pipeline is driven by, you know, one, our segmentation of market, as we've talked about before, and the improved product readiness for those larger customers |
| Resulting in a meaningful improvement in performance and an estimated 60% plus TCO savings |
| We believe this win demonstrates the ability of the Nutanix Cloud Platform to seamlessly run and manage workloads wherever the optimal performance and TCO can be achieved, whether on premise, at the edge or in the public cloud |
| Secondly, we talked about better on time renewal performance, which was strong in the quarter as well |
| The outperformance was driven by better than expected renewal performance due to a combination of good discipline around renewals economics, improved on time renewal performance, as well as early and core term renewals |
| In closing, we are pleased that our Q2 results exceeded guidance and to raise our top line and bottom line guidance for the full fiscal year |
| You drove very strong operating leverage in the quarter |
| As such, interest remains high in our GPT in-a-Box offering, which enables our customers to accelerate the use of generative AI across their enterprises, while keeping their data secure |
| And overall, we've been pleased to take up our full year outlook on both top and bottom line |
| So the reference I made in terms of our operating margin performance in Q2, which was came in strong at 22% and higher than our expectation was, one revenue was higher than we expected |
| While it's still early days, and the numbers remain small, I'm excited about the longer term potential for GPT in-a-Box |
| So clearly, Cisco has huge market leverage and market position, in terms of their sellers, and their access to big accounts, their presence in all these accounts |
| We continue to see good customer interest in our joint offering and saw additional wins for it in the second quarter |
| And we're happy with the progress we're making |
| We've delivered a solid second quarter, with results that came in ahead of our guidance |
| So I feel pretty good about what we can do, we can handle all the workloads |
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| So, first of all, I think, as you said, I mean, there are significant concerns from VMware customers regarding the Broadcom acquisition |
| We expect full year ACV billings to be about 5% to 6% lower than the sum of the four quarters ACV billings |
| The macro backdrop in our second quarter remain uncertain, but stable relative to the prior quarter |
| Rajiv Ramaswami And then Meta on the talent questions, there's no doubt this is --two years ago, it was a difficult market for talent, right, everybody was hiring |
| So effectively now, it's not just us doing HCI, but they're also putting, which puts a little bit of pressure on the 3-tier storage piece of it |
| And secondly, some of the dynamics that Rajiv talked about already regarding concerns from larger customers, regarding the impacts from Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware |
| Maybe just on, you noted, clearly, some macro headwinds still |
| Given expected variability in quarterly revenue and timing of expenses, we would not expect to be consistently profitable at the GAAP operating profit level over the near term |
| So this idea of in some cases, it's clear, in other cases, it's more of A factor, an important factor, but one factor, and so that those situations, it's harder for us to attribute specifically, dollars and pipeline and things like that, to this particular disruption in the competitive market |
| However, as we mentioned previously, we have continued to see a modest elongation of average sales cycles relative to historical levels |
| We've been hearing through the channel that the sentiment on, you know, the HCI market overall has turned slightly more cautious |
| This new customer had an existing three tier footprint in need of a refresh, but was frustrated by the recent price increases of their incumbent vendor and was also looking to have the flexibility to potentially move some of their footprint to the public cloud in future |
| So it's -- so they're not as strong in this segment of the market |
| Average contract duration in Q2 was 2.8 years, slightly lower than Q1, and more or less in line with our expectations |
| So, but I think what we've always had to overcome as inertia |
| Somewhat uncertain, but stable is how I would characterize it |
| And we characterize that as somewhat uncertain, but stable |
| In Q2, we continue to see modestly elongated average sales cycles compared to historical levels |
| You know, there's a bit of confusion out there, from what I can tell on the conversations with investors between, what VMware can do that Nutanix can't do |
| So, they were happy with the vendor prior, and now they don't feel happy |
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