Nutanix Expands Capabilities to Help Customers Build and Operate Distributed Sovereign Clouds
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, has
announced new capabilities in its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution
designed to give organizations 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, or across a combination of both –
without sacrificing unified management or operational simplicity.
As organizations expand across multiple regions and cloud
environments, many face increasing complexity in meeting sovereignty and
business continuity expectations. At the same time, they must maintain
operational flexibility without being tied to a single cloud vendor ecosystem –
a key principle for resilience and sovereignty.
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 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,” 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.”
Stronger Security and Control for Sovereignty-Aligned
Architectures
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.
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.
Continuing with our focus on providing assurances to our
customers about the security and compliance of our Cloud Services, NC2 on Azure
and AWS successfully completed its annual SOC 2 Type 2 audit and achieved the
renewal of its ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701, and 22301 certifications.
Additionally, in 2025, NC2 on Azure received its CSA Star Level 2 Certification
for the first time. These attestations and certifications provide independent
validation that NC2 controls supporting the security, availability,
confidentiality, and privacy of the system have operated effectively and been
maintained against these audited standards for the 2024-2025 period. These
achievements provide independent validation of Nutanix’s security and
compliance controls, offering NC2 customers greater confidence that the system managed
by Nutanix adheres to globally recognized standards.
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
microsegmentation 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.
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