Saudi Arabia, Riyadh – Nutanix 
NTNXa leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced new features in its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution designed to help organizations operate with confidence as AI workloads grow, cloud environments become more complex, and hardware supply constraints drive the need for more flexible infrastructure platforms.
As organizations modernize their infrastructure, many are re-evaluating their long-standing virtualization platforms to ensure they can provide the flexibility, performance, and cost predictability needed for virtual machines, containers, and AI workloads.
NCP allows customers to leverage their existing infrastructure and choose from a broad ecosystem of hardware vendors, hyperscalers, neoclouds, and service providers. NCP also helps organizations run virtualized modern applications and AI workloads anywhere, helping keep critical IT projects on track while maintaining flexibility and long-term platform choice.
“As organizations continue to modernize their cloud infrastructure in a supply-constrained environment, they must balance leveraging the flexibility of a hybrid multicloud infrastructure with the need to maintain data and application sovereignty,” said Thomas Cornely, executive vice president of product management at Nutanix. “Nutanix Cloud Platform allows customers to better leverage their existing hardware infrastructure, extend it across a growing ecosystem of cloud and infrastructure providers, and maintain choice and control over where their workloads run as hardware availability and procurement schedules change.”
Extends Nutanix cloud platform to add full stack capabilities for modern applications and AI workloads
The full stack capabilities of the NCP solution continue to expand to include new services in AI infrastructure, unified storage, and advanced data services. Updates include:
- The Nutanix Agentic AI solution, announced during NVIDIA GTC 2026 and currently in early access, is a full-stack platform designed to help enterprises build and operate AI applications on NCP. The complete solution will be available in late 2026 and includes a secure, high-performance virtualization foundation for AI infrastructure, integrating compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes services to simplify deployment and operations. Together, these capabilities enable enterprises to efficiently run modern AI workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments.
- Announced today, NKP Metal is in early access and is expected to be generally available in late 2026. It extends the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution to support Kubernetes deployments directly on bare metal infrastructure, delivering performance for edge environments and AI training workloads that rely on dense GPU infrastructure.
- Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) 5.3 is now generally available and is ideal for transforming object storage into the performance storage layer needed for AI factories. This release expands Smart Tiering to enable seamless data movement to Google Cloud and OVHCloud S3 while adding multi-tenant object scaling and quotas to support large-scale AI data lakes. In late 2026, NUS will introduce remote direct memory access (RDMA) acceleration for S3-compatible object storage to dramatically increase throughput for large AI training datasets and data-intensive pipelines.
- The updated Nutanix Data Lens 2.0 solution is now generally available and can be run completely on-premises, including in air-gapped environments. This release enables visibility across your distributed storage footprint for ransomware analysis, data auditing and governance, and sovereign and dark site deployments that cannot rely on SaaS-based data security.
- Nutanix and MongoDB announced the general availability of certified integration between Nutanix database services and MongoDB Ops Manager, which is built on MongoDB’s third-party backup integration model. Nutanix and MongoDB are working together to simplify enterprise database operations with automatic provisioning and lifecycle management across infrastructure and database environments.
Powering Nutanix’s global ecosystem of cloud and AI infrastructure providers
Building on the capabilities Nutanix has added for the Agentic AI era, Nutanix Service Provider Central (SP Central), now in early access, brings new multi-tenancy capabilities. This makes it easier for Nutanix service provider partners to offer a wide range of hosted infrastructure and AI services on NCP while maintaining secure, logical separation between tenants sharing the same infrastructure.
Scheduled to be generally available in late 2026, SP Central will enable service providers to offer scalable hosted infrastructure, cloud native, and AI services while helping customers maintain control across distributed environments.
Learn more about how Nutanix is expanding capabilities for service provider partners and enabling the next generation of necloud providers, announced today.
Nutanix Expands to Broadest Infrastructure Ecosystem Ever
Nutanix continues to support a wide range of workloads by offering flexible deployment architectures across a wide range of server and storage hardware, allowing organizations to leverage existing hardware investments even when supply chains are constrained.
To enable this approach, Nutanix is increasing integration across its global ecosystem of partners, including the following capabilities currently available:
- The new Foundation Central appliance simplifies deployment of Nutanix cloud infrastructure and AHV hypervisors on the NX platform as well as a wide range of enterprise servers from Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HPE, and Lenovo.
- Dell: Nutanix has added support for synchronous disaster recovery for Dell PowerFlex.
- Ever Pure: Nutanix has strengthened Everpure’s integration, extending support from //x and //xl FlashArray to the new //c FlashArray platform, and adding Nutanix’s synchronous disaster recovery capabilities for greater deployment flexibility.
And later this year:
- AMD: Nutanix continues to expand its portfolio of AMD CPU-powered servers across all major server vendors to meet the needs of a wide range of applications. Additionally, Nutanix plans to add support for AMD GPU-accelerated computing servers for AI workloads, providing customers with additional options.
- Cisco: Nutanix continues to expand its strategic collaboration with Cisco by integrating Nutanix solutions with Cisco Unified Edge, Cisco Secure AI Factory, and Cisco AI Pod. FlexPod converged infrastructure featuring Cisco compute and networking, NetApp storage, and Nutanix software is scheduled for release later this year.
- Dell: Currently in early access, Nutanix plans to make Dell PowerStore support generally available, along with enhanced Dell Private Cloud automation. Additionally, Dell PowerFlex Ultra5 environments will also be supported.
- lenovo: Nutanix is expanding its collaboration with Lenovo with a full-stack approach that spans support for Lenovo ThinkSystem storage, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, and XC One automation.
- netapp: Nutanix plans to add support for NetApp ONTAP and extend external storage support to NetApp AFF All-Flash A-Series and select FAS Hybrid Flash systems later this year.
These additions represent the broadest expansion of infrastructure support in Nutanix’s history, providing customers with proven deployment options and maximum hardware flexibility and choice across established enterprise platforms.
NCP also offers zero-copy migration from VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes to AHV vDisks, which is now generally available. This allows organizations to perform workload transformations almost instantly and in-place without duplicating data. This feature can shorten migration schedules and minimize infrastructure overhead and operational disruption.
Achieve sovereign control across your hybrid multicloud environment
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is expanded to support more deployment options across hyperscalers, including the addition of secure government cloud regions such as AWS GovCloud, which is now generally available, and AWS European Sovereign Cloud, which will be released later this year. In late 2026, support for Hyperdisk and C3 bare metal instances with NC2 on Google Cloud will be introduced, giving customers the flexibility to scale storage without relying on compute and leverage bare metal instance types without local storage.
Customers can run workloads in the cloud to meet regulatory, latency, and procurement needs while maintaining the flexibility to move workloads back on-premises without having to refactor them. For organizations facing hardware availability challenges, these options provide the flexibility to continue deploying and scaling critical workloads without long delays.
Unified cloud management to build, operate, and manage modern distributed enterprise clouds
As infrastructure spans clouds, on-premises data centers, and sovereign environments, organizations need a consistent way to build and operate it. Manage large sites and distributed premises, including highly secure air-gapped environments.
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM 2.0) is now generally available and is built on a new architecture that enables customers to manage large numbers of clusters across multiple Prism Central (PC) instances at scale.
- NCM 2.0 provides multi-site, multi-domain management that unifies operations across large deployments. A new secure onboarding workflow allows you to manage multiple PCs from a single console, allowing your team to centralize 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 replatforming, eliminating the need for a separate SaaS application. Customers get AIOps, self-service, and cost governance in a single, seamless experience. Cost governance provided through an integrated NCM console allows customers to track measurement, showback, and budgeting while keeping all cost data within their own infrastructure.
“As organizations across Saudi Arabia rethink their infrastructure strategies in the face of growing AI demands and supply chain challenges, Nutanix is uniquely positioned to deliver a consistent, scalable and sovereign cloud platform. We are committed to helping our customers seize new opportunities while maintaining complete flexibility and control,” said Mohammad Abulhof, Vice President and General Manager, Middle East and Africa, Nutanix.
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The NCP news announced today includes products that are currently generally available or scheduled for release in late 2026.
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