Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX ), a leader in hybrid multi-cloud services, today introduced the Nutanix Agentic AI solution, a complete software solution purpose-built to help customers accelerate the implementation of Agentic AI for business transformation.
With the transition to Agentic AI, enterprise implementation has reached a tipping point where the barrier to success is no longer the model or building individual agents, but the complexity of managing the infrastructure required to securely run thousands of agents at scale. Infrastructure and platform teams need better solutions to build and operate AI factories and provide shared access to their resources while maximizing performance, security, and compliance with sovereignty requirements. In addition, data scientists and Agentic AI developers expect easy access to tools and services to run and fine-tune models, build agents, and securely connect them to enterprise data.
”Unlike AI infrastructure for model training that was optimized to run ‘one big job,’ Agentic’s production AI infrastructure needs to handle scale and high rates of change for thousands of AI services, agents, and concurrent users and developers. Nutanix Agentic AI extends our AHV hypervisor, Flow Virtual Networking, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, and Nutanix Enterprise AI to deliver a cloud-based operating model for enterprise AI factories, enabling infrastructure and platform teams to easily build, operate, and govern AI factories while providing Agentic’s AI developers with the performance and comprehensive set of models and AI platform services they need,” said Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President of Product Management at Nutanix.
The solution integrates with NVIDIA AI Enterprise at the Agent Builder layer and orchestrates the NVIDIA-certified ecosystem of AI factories for supported configurations. It enables customers with dynamic, multi-tenant AI environments to build, run, and secure agent-based AI applications with a complete set of infrastructure orchestration and security software combined with AI Platform Services (PaaS) and Models-as-a-Service (MaaS) for data scientists and agent-based AI developers. Nutanix and NVIDIA are also working together to build the foundation for autonomous agents in the enterprise through integration with the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, including the NVIDIA OpenShell open source runtime.
Optimize performance, security, and cost for AI apps and factories
Nutanix Agentics' AI solution reduces complexity, delivers optimized performance and security, and is designed to enable lower, predictable token costs by providing the following:
1. Agentic AI services and a Kubernetes platform: This AI PaaS and Kubernetes-based software stack consists of:
- An advanced AI gateway and Model-as-a-Service: The latest release of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI), version 2.6, now includes an AI gateway service for unified policy control across cloud-based and on-premises LLMs. New support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and Fine Tuning extends its existing robust MaaS capabilities to enable agents to securely connect to enterprise tools and data sources. NAI also now includes support for the NVIDIA Nemotron family of open-source AI models, datasets, and training tools, designed to help developers build agent-based AI systems that can reason, securely access tools, and complete complex multi-step tasks independently.
- An open Kubernetes platform with a comprehensive AI catalog: Nutanix is simplifying the path to Agentic AI by extending its CNCF-compliant Nutanix Kubernetes platform with a comprehensive catalog of pre-built open source AI development tools, including Notebooks, vector databases, MLOps workflow engines, and Agentic frameworks. Fully integrated with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, developers can immediately deploy NVIDIA NIM microservices, including Nemotron, to accelerate the development of high-performance AI applications in production.
2. Infrastructure optimization and security: In the early access release of NVIDIA’s topology-aware AHV, the Nutanix AHV hypervisor has been enhanced to automatically optimize the allocation of physical resources to virtual machines on GPU-dense servers, helping to maximize performance. The Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking solution has been enhanced to offload the network data plane to NVIDIA BlueField, providing high-performance networking while reducing host CPU and memory consumption. These enhanced features bring all the benefits of virtual machines for workload and tenant isolation, day-2 operation, and infrastructure resiliency to Agentic AI workloads with maximum performance, security, and resource utilization to help drive lower cost per token.
3. Basic data services for AI : Agentic AI applications require core data services. As a solution built on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, Nutanix Unified Storage delivers linearly scalable read/write performance for thousands of GPU clients. By providing a high-capacity level of KV Cache offload and support for S3 over RDMA and NFS over RDMA, Nutanix provides a scalable, low-latency data structure that maximizes GPU efficiency across all AI workloads for the enterprise.
Industry and partner perspective
The Nutanix Agentics AI solution operationalizes and accelerates the deployment of Agentics AI with NVIDIA-certified AI factories. Customers can deploy AI factories on hardware from Cisco, Dell, Lenovo, and Supermicro, supported by joint validation by Nutanix and NVIDIA.
Analyst comment
”The Nutanix Agentic AI stack eliminates much of the infrastructural friction that can slow down enterprise AI projects. By bringing together the layers – from Models-as-a-Service at the top, to an AI platform built on a standardized Kubernetes distribution, down to GPU-aware hypervisors and DPU-accelerated networks – organizations gain a more cohesive AI stack, enabling AI factories that deliver strong performance and security while lowering cost per token.”
Steve McDowell, Principal Analyst, NAND Research
Partner comment
”Agentic AI requires high-performance infrastructure that can securely handle thousands of agents at enterprise scale. Nutanix’s integration of NVIDIA Agent Toolkit and open Nemotron models gives companies a foundation to build and run efficient AI factories – and we’re working together to scale autonomous AI across the enterprise as AI agents continue to evolve.”
Justin Boitano, Vice President of Enterprise AI Platforms, NVIDIA
”The enterprise AI landscape is moving from experimentation to large-scale production, requiring infrastructure that supports the full complexity of AI factories, from training to inference and data management. Dell’s leading AI infrastructure drives Nutanix’s promise to simplify AI operations while maximizing performance and security. Together, we help enterprises focus on building AI applications that deliver real business value, not managing operational complexity.”
Travis Vigil, Senior Vice President, ISG Product Management, Dell Technologies
”The conversation around AI in the enterprise is not just about better models. It’s about operational velocity and trust – how quickly and securely teams can move from experimentation to production at scale. By integrating Cisco infrastructure with this Nutanix solution, we are blurring the line between complex hardware orchestration and rapid application deployment, supporting the optimization of every asset in the ecosystem through topology-aware intelligence and security. Together, we are delivering a turnkey, frictionless environment where organizations can deploy their AI factories with the resiliency, security, and lifecycle consistency that their enterprise environments demand.”
Jeremy Foster, SVP and General Manager, Cisco Compute
”Democratizing AI for everyone means making enterprise AI easy to deploy and scalable from edge and core environments to full AI factory environments. Lenovo’s hybrid AI portfolio enables customers to quickly and securely move AI from experimentation to production. Together with Nutanix and NVIDIA, we have co-developed the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX solution for AI to provide a unified, full-stack foundation that integrates compute, GPUs, networking and data across hybrid environments. By reducing operational complexity and streamlining deployment, we enable organizations to build and scale AI factories more efficiently, accelerating time to value while optimizing performance, cost and token efficiency.”
Scott Patti, VP Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo
”Accenture helps clients modernize their platform strategies to build an architecture that can reinvent the business and enable agentic AI at scale. The capabilities that Nutanix will offer in its Agentic AI solution can help organizations build an agentic architecture to create an integrated AI interface across data and platforms and reshape how processes are structured for more unified and efficient operations.”
Dave Malik, Global Infrastructure Engineering AI & High-Performance Computing Lead, Accenture
”We are excited to partner with Nutanix to help customers unlock the full potential of AI by simplifying operations, strengthening security, and elevating user experience. By integrating Nutanix’s full-stack AI solution with TCS” deep expertise in AI-driven transformation, we are helping companies accelerate the adoption of Agentic AI to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Our vast talent pool and partner ecosystem have been key to setting new benchmarks for AI-led innovation and customer success.”
Rajnikant Gupta, Global Head – Partner Ecosystems and Alliances, TCS
”By partnering with Nutanix, we can deliver the most compute-dense and energy-efficient AI factory infrastructure. Our liquid-cooled data center solutions with Nutanix intelligent software warehouses running on Supermicro rack-scale systems can accelerate enterprises” access to some of the fastest online and sustainable token operations in the industry.”
Cenly Chen, Chief Growth Officer, Supermicro
”Integrating Everpure’s industry-leading storage and data management platform with Nutanix’s NVIDIA-optimized AHV foundation creates a unified AI fabric that solves the data gravity challenge of the agent era. By eliminating bottlenecks in the AI stack, we ensure that enterprise infrastructure teams no longer have to choose between massive scale and operational simplicity. Together, we provide the high-performance, low-latency foundation required to power the most demanding RAG pipelines and high-concurrency workloads within an AI Factory ecosystem.”
Kaycee Lai, Vice President, AI, Everpure
”Our customers are looking for ways to simplify the management of thousands of concurrent AI agents without skyrocketing costs and overhead. The Nutanix Agentic AI solution – running on Fujitsu’s NVIDIA-certified infrastructure and combined with Fujitsu’s sovereignty and mission-critical technologies – delivers the performance and resource optimization needed to realize the vision of an AI-powered enterprise. We are proud to partner with Nutanix to deliver these next-generation AI factory capabilities.”
Kazushi Koga, Corporate Executive Officer, SEVP, Head of Platform Business Group, Fujitsu Limited
The Nutanix Agentics AI solution consists of products that are either already generally available or are currently in early access and are expected to be available soon. More information about the solution can be found at here . More information about AI at Nutanix can be found here. here .
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a leader in hybrid multi-cloud services, providing organizations with a unified software platform to run applications, deploy enterprise AI workloads, and manage data anywhere. With Nutanix, organizations can simplify the operation of traditional and modern applications, freeing them to focus on business goals. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, Nutanix is trusted by organizations to digitally transform and run hybrid multi-cloud environments consistently, easily, and cost-effectively.
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