Nutanix, a hybrid cloud leader and AI innovator, today announced the general availability of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.8, and the upcoming general availability of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 2.19, along with new incentives, programs, and resources designed to help partners accelerate growth on emerging AI opportunities.
Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) is being enhanced and expanded for production agentic AI with its dual-native architecture, including the introduction of NAI 2.8 and NKP 2.19. The new capabilities give customers a flexible cloud operating model designed to consistently manage and govern AI across environments, supported by a dual-native architecture for virtual machines and containers.
Many enterprises face a major roadblock when deploying AI: AI is accelerating shift to containers, while critical applications and data remain spread across both virtualized and containerized environments. This divide can force enterprises to add silos, move data or rearchitect existing workloads. Nutanix addresses this with a governed, dual-native architecture that runs traditional applications and modern AI side by side, allowing infrastructure to flexibly support workload, integrated with leading silicon partners.
Expanding on NCP capabilities, NAI and NKP are designed to enable organizations to securely run, manage, and govern AI, containerized applications and virtualized workloads through a consistent control plane. These complement core platform capabilities for near-bare metal performance for AI on virtualized infrastructure introduced with NCI 7.6.
"Enterprise AI should not require customers to rebuild the systems that already run their business," said Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix. "With our dual-native architecture, customers can bring AI to their existing applications and data while running each workload on the infrastructure best suited to it, with consistent operations and governance across VMs, containers and AI."
NAI delivers unified and secure platform to deploy, manage, and scale AI workloads across hybrid environments. It enables enterprises to enforce governance over agents and models, gain total visibility over token usage, and streamline AI development with simple interface with built-in observability and model-as-a-service.
Key updates include Agent Gateway with generally available MCP Gateway serving as secure unified front door for AI agents to access tools and data without custom engineering plus MCP Server for NCP to build agentic applications. Private Inference adds scalable multiGPU inference via tensor parallelism, batch inference and speculative decoding accelerating token generation up to 2.5x. Features include Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning supporting LoRA for <8B parameters cost-effectively customizing open LLMs on private data using single-GPU, scalable multiGPU serving, and enhanced security against Rogue AI with fine-grained IAM custom roles and air-gapped NVIDIA NIM deployment.
NKP simplifies container operations across bare metal and VMs. NKP Metal brings HCI-grade simplicity to bare-metal Kubernetes with automated OS firmware and container deployment and persistent storage. NKP Full Stack on AHV delivers stronger network-level sandboxing via Flow for AI agents mitigating rogue attacks. AI Applications Catalog offers one-click deployment for Kubeflow, Milvus, Slurm. NKP attained CNCF Certified Kubernetes AI Conformant Platform validation.
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a hybrid cloud leader and AI innovator, offering organizations a unified infrastructure software platform to safely run applications, data, and AI anywhere. Trusted by customers worldwide, Nutanix empowers more than 50% of the Global 2000 to innovate faster with AI, while modernizing infrastructure, simplifying operations, and controlling costs
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