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Publication Date: 2026-01-06 04:07:00
Nutanix has expanded its collaboration with Nvidia to launch an integrated AI operating environment, aligning its cloud infrastructure software with Nvidia’s latest enterprise AI hardware and software platforms.
The companies are targeting enterprises that are moving generative AI projects from pilot into production and need more predictable infrastructure and management. The combined environment brings together Nutanix’s compute, storage, virtualisation and Kubernetes stack with Nvidia AI Enterprise software and upcoming Rubin platform technologies.
Nutanix said its AI-focused operating environment sits on its Acropolis Operating System storage platform and AHV hypervisor. It also draws on the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, Nutanix Enterprise AI, Nutanix Unified Storage and Nutanix Database products. Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro operating system is available for bare metal Kubernetes deployments.
The companies position this as a single operating layer for what they describe as “AI factories”. The environment supports deployment of generative AI workloads on Nvidia GPU infrastructure and the Nvidia AI Enterprise software suite, including Nvidia NIM microservices for model inference.
Focus on production
Much of the effort centres on enterprises that have already invested in Nvidia-based infrastructure. Nutanix said the integrated stack is intended to shorten the time between hardware delivery and production use of generative AI models. It also wants customers to run…
