Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, is introducing new capabilities to its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution—designed to give enterprises greater flexibility to deploy and govern their infrastructure across distributed environments running traditional, modern, and AI applications, including fully disconnected environments, with cloud providers that offer sovereign services.
According to Nutanix, these new capabilities in NCP give customers more choice in how they run and govern infrastructure—across their own environments and with cloud providers that offer sovereign services—enabling greater focus on resilience, security and control, and global management.
These updates also strengthen the platform’s ability to support secure, governed cloud-native and AI workloads through new security capabilities in the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) and Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) solutions.
“As sovereign cloud architectures become a defining priority for enterprises, 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,” said Thomas Cornely, executive vice president of product management at Nutanix. “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.”
NCP now provides orchestrated lifecycle management of multiple dark-site environments, along with on-premises deployment options for governance and control planes. The Nutanix Central solution, which simplifies distributed cloud management, can now run in customer controlled on-premises environments. Additionally, Nutanix Data Lens, which simplifies unstructured data security, governance, and ransomware resilience, will also soon run in customer controlled on-premises environments, the company said.
Nutanix is also expanding support across its partner ecosystem. The Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters (GC2) solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS), now available, adds capabilities for federal agencies in the United States to build and operate a distributed sovereign cloud. GC2 on AWS keeps orchestration inside the government agency’s environment with no external SaaS or shared credentials, enabling Nutanix clusters to run fully within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
The Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) solution on Google Cloud is now generally available, offering customers in 17 regions worldwide more ways to modernize their infrastructure. New Microsoft Azure and AWS Regions in the United States provide customers with more flexibility in deploying sovereignty-aligned and regionally compliant environments. In Europe, NC2 is available on OVHcloud secure and trusted cloud.
NKP will include a FIPS 140-3–validated and STIG-compliant Ubuntu Pro image option that is currently under development to further strengthen the platform for organizations with strict security and compliance requirements, including those running sensitive or regulated AI workloads.
Nutanix is also extending VPC-based isolation, network load balancing, and micro segmentation capabilities to containerized workloads to give customers consistent control across VMs and containers.
With the recent release of government-ready NVIDIA AI Enterprise software branches, NAI customers can now deploy leading AI models with NVIDIA NIM microservices running in containers that are STIG-hardened and FIPS-enabled.
Additional NAI security enhancements include stronger identity integration, fine-grained access controls for models, and expanded logging and monitoring to support governed AI workloads. New object detection and data parsing NVIDIA NIM microservices have also been qualified and added into NAI.
New capabilities for NCP strengthen resilience by enabling customers to maintain application availability across sites and regions during outages, essential for sovereignty-aligned environments that must avoid single-site or single-vendor dependency and manage risk of exposure to actions by foreign jurisdictions.
Enhanced features of the Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes solution extend tiered synchronous and asynchronous disaster recovery protections to containers with both block and file data, enabling organizations’ governance and compliance objectives for modern Kubernetes applications including AI-native applications.
NCP now offers stronger management capabilities that streamline how distributed environments are deployed and operated, giving customers more consistent control across their own sites and sovereignty-aligned cloud providers. Nutanix Infrastructure Manager, a new automation tool, streamlines deployments using validated, fully tested design patterns, making it easier to stand up and maintain data center environments, the company said.
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