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Nutanix Enhances NCP for Sovereign Cloud and AI Workloads


Nutanix Enhances NCP for Sovereign Cloud and AI Workloads
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  • December 19, 2025

Nutanix has introduced new capabilities in its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), enabling greater flexibility for deploying and governing infrastructure across distributed, disconnected, and sovereign cloud environments. These updates support traditional, modern, and AI workloads while preserving unified management, operational simplicity, and resilience.

Quick Intel

  • Supports orchestrated management of dark-site and on-premises governance planes.
  • Nutanix Central and Data Lens now deployable in customer-controlled environments.
  • Government Cloud Clusters (GC2) on AWS available for U.S. federal sovereign clouds.
  • Cloud Clusters (NC2) generally available on Google Cloud and expanded on Azure/AWS/OVHcloud.
  • Enhanced security with FIPS/STIG options, VPC isolation, and governed AI in NKP/NAI.
  • Advanced tiered disaster recovery and multicloud snapshots for resilience.

Advancing Sovereignty and Distributed Cloud Architectures

Organizations increasingly require infrastructure that meets data sovereignty, compliance, and business continuity needs without vendor lock-in. NCP's enhancements allow customers to define sovereign boundaries across on-premises, disconnected sites, and compliant cloud providers, maintaining consistent operations.

This includes lifecycle management for multiple dark sites and on-premises deployment of control planes like Nutanix Central for centralized oversight.

Expanded Partner Ecosystem and Regional Support

Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters on AWS enable U.S. agencies to operate within isolated VPCs without external credentials. NC2 on Google Cloud is now generally available in 17 regions, with added U.S. regions on Azure and AWS, plus European availability on OVHcloud.

Compliance validations include renewed SOC 2 Type 2, ISO certifications, and new CSA Star Level 2 for NC2 on Azure.

Strengthened Security for Cloud Native and AI Workloads

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) gains developing FIPS 140-3/STIG-compliant images, VPC isolation, load balancing, and microsegmentation for containers. Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) incorporates STIG-hardened NVIDIA NIM microservices, enhanced identity controls, access policies, logging, and new object detection/parsing services.

Nutanix Data Lens will soon support on-premises deployment for unstructured data governance and ransomware protection.

Improved Resilience and Disaster Recovery

New tiered DR options match protection to workloads, supporting recovery from up to three site/region failures. Multicloud snapshots integrate for cyber resilience, with consistent security policies during failover/migration.

Kubernetes data services extend synchronous/asynchronous DR to containers, aiding governance for AI-native applications.

Streamlined Global Management

Nutanix Infrastructure Manager automates deployments with validated patterns. A unified network control plane centralizes VLAN, virtual network, and microsegmentation visibility.

NKP clusters auto-register in Prism Central, and NAI adds LLM metrics dashboards for AI workload monitoring.

Executive and Stakeholder Perspectives

Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President of Product Management at Nutanix, noted: “As sovereign cloud architectures become a defining priority for organizations, we’re introducing several enhancements to the Nutanix Cloud Platform that help customers meet these needs without giving up the advantages of a distributed cloud infrastructure. These new capabilities give customers the clarity and control needed to draw their own sovereign boundaries across distributed environments and leverage the resiliency and flexibility that distributed clouds provide.”

Customer and partner endorsements highlight benefits in compliance, resilience, and modernization across healthcare, digital services, and regulated sectors.

These advancements reinforce NCP's role in enabling secure, sovereign-aligned hybrid multicloud operations for global enterprises.

 

About Nutanix

Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud computing leader, offering organizations a unified software platform for running applications and AI and managing data anywhere. With Nutanix, organizations can simplify operations for traditional and modern applications, freeing them to focus on business goals. Trusted by more than 29,000 customers worldwide, Nutanix helps empower organizations to transform digitally and power hybrid multicloud environments consistently, simply, and cost-effectively. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on social media.

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