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Publication Date: 2025-12-16 21:29:00
Nutanix customers can now operate the company’s infrastructure control plane behind their own firewalls, as regulatory compliance and data gravity around AI workloads have increased enterprise interest in sovereign cloud.
Sovereign cloud refers to cloud infrastructure or services designed to reside within a specific geographic boundary, often to comply with regulations such as the EU’s GDPR. Enterprise interest in sovereign cloud has grown over the last two years, partly due to increased geopolitical volatility and the fact that companies are reluctant to move large repositories of enterprise data into public clouds to support AI applications, due to both cost and security concerns.
“There’s no doubt this is becoming more important to a range of customers — chiefly government and public sector companies — but by no means limited to them, especially outside of the US,” said Simon Robinson, an analyst at Omdia, a division of Informa TechTarget. “Our research found 74% of organizations say sovereign clouds are more important now than two years ago, for example.”
In response, the Nutanix Cloud Platform, previously managed only using SaaS, now offers an entirely self-managed option for its Nutanix Central control plane, including support for completely disconnected environments. Plans are also in place to support self-management for the Nutanix Data Lens data security service.
Given the widespread appeal of sovereign cloud, Nutanix is far from alone in adjusting its…
