Nutanix, a hybrid cloud leader and AI platform company, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms. Nutanix is positioned highest for Ability to Execute and recognized for its Completeness of Vision. This recognition arrives at a pivotal moment for IT leaders, many of whom are actively reassessing their virtualization strategy amidst industry consolidation, rising costs, and increasingly restrictive licensing models.
Nutanix recognized as a Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms
Positioned highest for Ability to Execute and recognized for Completeness of Vision
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure with built-in AHV hypervisor provides infrastructure foundation
Modular licensing enables organizations to modernize at their own pace
Recent support additions include Dell PowerStore, Everpure FlashArray, and Dell PowerFlex
More than 50% of Global 2000 trust Nutanix
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, with its built-in AHV hypervisor based on proven open-source KVM virtualization technology, brings together compute, storage, networking and virtualization as the infrastructure foundation for Nutanix Cloud Platform, providing a unified way to run, manage, and govern VMs, containers, and AI workloads across distributed environments. Unlike legacy virtualization stacks that are being forced into rigid, "all-or-nothing" enterprise bundles, Nutanix delivers modular licensing that enables organizations to consume capabilities appropriate to their needs and modernize at their own pace.
"As organizations modernize their infrastructure and prepare to run agentic AI at scale, they need a platform that gives them flexibility without added complexity and silos," said Ketan Shah, Vice President of Product Management, Nutanix. "We believe being named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms highlights how Nutanix empowers customers to run AI, virtual machines, and containers seamlessly across an expanding choice of clouds, sovereign locations, server and storage architectures, and managed service providers."
Nutanix continues to support a broad range of workloads by offering flexible deployment architectures across an expanding list of server and storage hardware as well as public cloud locations. Recent milestones include the general availability of support for Dell PowerStore, major updates for Everpure FlashArray and Dell PowerFlex, as well as limited availability of NetApp ONTAP. Nutanix also recently introduced a full-stack Agentic AI solution that includes a secure, high-performance virtualization foundation for AI infrastructure. The company also announced a strategic neocloud partnership with ChronoScale to extend its platform capabilities into accelerated compute and AI services.
"We didn't just want a replacement for legacy virtualization; we needed a future-proof foundation for our ambitious AI and cloud-native initiatives. With Nutanix, we have a platform that supports our new initiatives right alongside our core enterprise applications and removes a lot of hurdles from our journey." – Bhart Panwar, Additional General Manager, BHEL
"Nutanix Cloud Platform gave us the freedom to move away from VMware after it was acquired by Broadcom and deliver a true hybrid cloud model. It allowed us to have a dual-native capacity where services like security, networking, and data protection are unified across both VMs and containers." – Jasim Abdul Rahman, Group CIO, Power International Holding
"Our Nutanix journey started more than a decade ago as a move away from traditional three-tier infrastructure, and today the platform supports around 90% of our on-premises environment. What has worked particularly well for us is having a platform that can reliably support the University's critical systems while continuing to evolve with our needs in areas such as AI, automation, and cloud native." – Justin Mason, Associate Director, Technology Services, University of Canberra
Source: Gartner, Inc, Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms, Tony Harvey, Daniel Bowers, Paul Delory, Tony Iams, Owen Marino, 14 September 2026
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a hybrid cloud leader and AI platform company, 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.
