Nutanix new Platform Capabilities for the Agentic AI Era -

New capabilities for Agentic AI infrastructure enabling optimisation, governance, and acceleration of Agentic AI use cases
Growing ecosystem of infrastructure, cloud, and service providers
Expanded options to modernise virtual machines and containers to leverage server and storage investments
Expanded management capabilities extend operational and data sovereignty

Nutanix has added new capabilities to the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution designed to help organisations operate reliably as AI workloads expand, cloud environments grow more complex, and hardware supply constraints drive the need for more flexible infrastructure platforms, as well as addressing the cost predictability required for virtual machines, containers, and AI workloads.

Speaking at Nutanix .NEXT 2026, Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix has said:

“As organisations continue to modernise their cloud infrastructure in a supply-constrained environment, organisations are having to balance leveraging the flexibility of hybrid multicloud infrastructure and the need to maintain sovereignty of their data and applications. With the Nutanix Cloud Platform, customers can make better use of existing hardware infrastructure, expand across a growing ecosystem of cloud and infrastructure providers, and maintain choice and control over where workloads run, even as hardware availability and procurement timelines shift.”

Extending the Nutanix Cloud Platform to add Full-Stack Capabilities for Modern Applications and AI Workloads

The NCP solution’s full-stack capabilities are expandeding to include new services for AI infrastructure, unified storage, and advanced data services.

The updates include:

The Nutanix Agentic AI solution, a full-stack platform currently in early access. The full solution will be available H2 2026.
NKP Metal, in early access and will be available H2 2026. It extends the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution to support Kubernetes deployments directly on bare-metal infrastructure.
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) 5.3 is generally available, driving the transformation of object storage into a performance storage tier required for AI Factories. The release expands Smart Tiering to enable seamless data movement to Google Cloud and OVHCloud S3, while adding multitenant object scaling and quotas to support massive AI data lakes. NUS will also introduce, later in 2026, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) acceleration for S3-compatible object storage for large AI training datasets and data-intensive pipelines.
The updated Nutanix Data Lens 2.0 solution is generally available and can run fully on-premises, including in air-gapped environments. The release brings ransomware analytics, data audit and governance, and visibility across distributed storage footprints to sovereign and dark-site deployments that cannot rely on SaaS-based data security.
Nutanix and MongoDB announced a certified integration, generally available now, between Nutanix Database Service and MongoDB Ops Manager that is built on MongoDB’s third-party backup integration model.

Nutanix SP Central

Nutanix Service Provider Central (SP Central), currently in Early Access, brings new multitenancy capabilities that enable Nutanix’s service provider partners to deliver a broader range of hosted infrastructure and AI services on NCP while helping to maintain secure, logical isolation between tenants sharing the same infrastructure.

Strengthened Integrations with Partners

Nutanix is strengthening integrations across a global ecosystem of partners, including these capabilities available now:

The new Foundation Central appliance simplifies the deployment of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and the AHV hypervisor on a wide range of enterprise servers from Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HPE, and Lenovo, as well as the NX Platform.
Dell: Nutanix has added support for synchronous disaster recovery for Dell PowerFlex.
Everpure: Nutanix has enhanced its Everpure integration, extending support from //x and //xl FlashArrays to the new //c FlashArray platform, as well as added Nutanix synchronous disaster recovery capabilities unlocking greater deployment flexibility.

Suresh Andani, Corporate Vice President, Corporate & Enterprise AI, AMD, has commented:

“Modern IT leaders are tired of the forced trade-off between operational simplicity and high-performance infrastructure. By deeply integrating Everpure into the Nutanix Cloud Platform, we are delivering a first-class external storage experience that is truly built for change. This joint solution allows organizations to modernize their most mission-critical workloads while benefiting from Everpure’s industry-leading data efficiency and Evergreen architecture.”

And coming later this year:

AMD: Nutanix will expand its portfolio of servers with AMD CPUs across all major server vendors to meet the needs of a wide range of applications. In addition, Nutanix plans to add support for AMD GPU-accelerated compute servers targeting AI workloads, helping provide additional options for customers.
Cisco: Nutanix integrated solutions with Cisco Unified Edge, Cisco Secure AI Factory, and Cisco AI Pod. FlexPod converged infrastructure with Cisco compute and networking, NetApp storage, and Nutanix software is planned for availability later this year.
Dell: In Early Access now, Nutanix plans to make Dell PowerStore support generally available, along with enhanced Dell Private Cloud automation. There will be support for Dell PowerFlex Ultra5 environments.
Lenovo: Nutanix full-stack approach that will span support for Lenovo ThinkSystem storage, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, and XC One automation.
NetApp: Nutanix plans to add support for NetApp ONTAP later this year, expanding support for external storage to the NetApp AFF all-flash and FAS hybrid-flash systems.

NCP zero-copy migrations

NCP provides zero-copy migrations, generally available now, from VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes to AHV vDisks, enabling organisations to perform near-instantaneous, in-place workload conversion without data duplication.

Delivering Sovereign Control Across Hybrid Multicloud Environments

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is being expanded to support more deployment options across hyperscalers including the addition of secure government cloud regions such as AWS GovCloud, generally available now, and AWS European Sovereign Cloud, coming later this year. The introduction of Hyperdisk and C3 bare-metal instance support with NC2 on Google Cloud in H2 2026 will provide customers the flexibility to scale storage independent of compute and leverage bare-metal instance types that do not have any local storage.

Customers can run workloads in the cloud in support of regulatory, latency, or procurement needs without refactoring while retaining the flexibility to bring them back on-premises.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM 2.0)

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM 2.0) is generally available now and built on a new architecture that enables customers to manage large numbers of clusters at scale, across multiple Prism Central (PC) instances.

NCM 2.0 provides multisite, multidomain management that unifies operations across large deployments. A new secure onboarding workflow enables multiple PCs to be managed from a single console, so teams can centralise inventory, alerts, playbooks, reporting, capacity planning, and what if analysis instead of relying on fragmented consoles and scripts.
NCM 2.0 brings Cost Governance on premises as part of this platform re-architecture, eliminating the need for a separate SaaS application. Customers get AIOps, Self-Service, and Cost Governance in a single seamless experience. Delivered through the unified NCM console, Cost Governance lets customers track metering, showback, and budgeting while keeping all cost data inside their own infrastructure.