Nutanix Expands Cloud Platform, Integration Partnerships

At the Nutanix .NEXT 2026 conference, the hybrid multicloud computing organization announced enhancements to its cloud platform, expanded its infrastructure ecosystem, and strengthened partner support.

Nutanix cloud updates include agentic AI-focused infrastructure

Nutanix has announced the expansion of customer choice and control for Enterprise AI, with new capabilities for Agentic AI infrastructure that will enable enterprises and neoclouds to optimize, govern, and accelerate Agentic AI use cases.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution is designed to help organizations operate reliably as AI workloads expand, cloud environments grow more complex, and hardware supply constraints drive the need for flexible infrastructure platforms. 

Nutanix will be extending the NCP to add full-stack capabilities for modern applications and AI workloads.

Among the updates to NCP’s full-stack capabilities include:

• Announced during NVIDIA GTC 2026, the Nutanix Agentic AI solution will help enterprises build and operate AI applications on NCP, and the full solution will be available in the second half of 2026. It will include a secure, high-performance virtualization foundation for AI infrastructure, and integrate compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes services to simplify deployment and operations. When combined, these capabilities will enable enterprises to run modern and AI workloads efficiently across hybrid and multicloud environments.
• NKP Metal is in early access and will be generally available in the second half of 2026. It will extend the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution to support Kubernetes deployments directly on bare-metal infrastructure, delivering the performance for edge environments and AI training workloads that rely on dense GPU infrastructure.
• Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) 5.3 is designed to drive the transformation of object storage into a performance storage tier required for AI Factories. Later in 2026, it will also introduce Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) acceleration for S3-compatible object storage, dramatically increasing throughput for large AI training datasets and data-intensive pipelines.
• The Nutanix Data Lens 2.0 solution will be updated and now 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 have announced a certified integration between Nutanix Database Service and MongoDB Ops Manager, built on MongoDB’s third-party backup integration model. The two are collaborating to simplify enterprise database operations with automated provisioning and lifecycle management across infrastructure and database environments.

Sovereign control across hybrid multicloud and unified cloud management

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is expanding to support more deployment options across hyperscalers, including adding secure government cloud regions such as AWS GovCloud and AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

In the second half of 2026, Hyperdisk and C3 bare-metal instance support with NC2 on Google Cloud will be introduced. It will provide customers with the flexibility to scale storage independently of compute and to leverage bare-metal instance types that don’t include local storage.

Customers will be able to run workloads in the cloud to support regulatory, latency, or procurement needs without refactoring, while retaining the flexibility to bring them back on-prem.

Nutanix Cloud Manager 2.0 brings multisite management and cost governance capabilities

Generally available now, the Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM 2.0), built on a new architecture, will enable customers to manage large numbers of clusters at scale across multiple Prism Central (PC) instances. 

Among the features of NCM 2.0 are:

• Multisite, multidomain management that unifies operations across large deployments. A new secure onboarding workflow enables multiple PCs to be managed from a single console, centralizing inventory, alerts, playbooks, reporting, capacity planning, and what-if analysis, rather than relying on fragmented consoles and scripts.
• Cost Governance is now available on-prem as part of the rearchitecture, eliminating the need for a separate SaaS application. Customers get AIOps, Self-Service, and Cost Governance in a single seamless experience. Cost Governance allows customers to track metering, showback, and budgeting through the unified NCM console while keeping all cost data inside their own infrastructure.

Enhancing Nutanix cloud and AI infrastructure providers

Further, Nutanix Service Provider Central (SP Central), in early access, will provide new multitenancy capabilities to enable Nutanix’s service provider partners to more easily deliver a broader range of hosted infrastructure and AI services on NCP, helping maintain secure, logical isolation between tenants sharing the same infrastructure.

Generally available in the second half of 2026, SP Central enables service providers to offer scalable, cloud-native, and AI services while helping customers maintain control across distributed environments.

“SP Central is a way to now give granular access control for service providers looking to go and monetize, manage, and update shared resources to customers who are concerned about both noisy neighbors and nosy neighbors,” said Lee Caswell, Senior Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing, Nutanix. 

“The idea now is that could be for general services providers and can also now be for a new class of service provider called neoclouds where now we’re extending SP Central into GPU enabled systems where we can control even down to the access of the generation and consumption of tokens.”

Infrastructure ecosystem expansion includes AMD, Cisco, Lenovo, and others

Nutanix is strengthening integrations across its global partner ecosystem. The recent announcements include the following collaboration:

• The new Foundation Central appliance simplifies the deployment of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and the AHV hypervisor across enterprise services from Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, and NX Platform.
• Added support for synchronous disaster recovery for Dell PowerFlex.
• Enhancement of the Everpure integration, extending support from //x and //xl FlashArrays to the new //c FlashArray platform. Nutanix’s synchronous disaster recovery capabilities, which unlock deployment flexibility, were added to the integrated solution.

Later in 2026, new capabilities will be coming, such as:

• AMD: Nutanix will expand its server portfolio with AMD CPUs across all major server vendors to meet application needs. Nutanix will also add support for AMD GPU-accelerated compute servers for AI workloads, providing additional options for customers.
• Cisco: Expanded strategic collaboration with Cisco by integrating Nutanix solutions with Cisco Unified Edge, Cisco Secure AI Factory, and Cisco AI Pod. Later this year, FlexPod converged infrastructure with Cisco compute and networking, NetApp storage, and Nutanix software will be added.
• Dell: Nutanix plans to make Dell PowerStore support generally available, along with enhanced Dell Private Cloud automation. There will also be support for Dell PowerFlex Ultra5 environments.
• Lenovo: An expansion of the Nutanix-Lenovo collaboration with a full-stack approach that will span support for Lenovo ThinkSystem storage, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, and XC One Automation.
• NetApp: Support for NetApp ONTAP and expanding support for external storage to the NetApp AFF all-flash A-series and select FAS hybrid-flash systems.