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Publication Date: 2026-08-31 07:00:00
Nutanix Cloud Platform Updates Expand Capabilities for Production Agentic AI
Nutanix has expanded its Nutanix Cloud Platform around production agentic AI, releasing Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.8 while preparing Nutanix Kubernetes Platform 2.19 for general availability. The updates are intended to let organizations run AI alongside existing virtualized and containerized applications while applying common management and governance.
The company announced the platform enhancements Aug. 26. NAI 2.8 is generally available now, while NKP 2.19 is described only as “available soon.” Nutanix also announced general availability of Service Provider Central, or SP Central, a multitenant control plane for infrastructure, application, cloud-native, and AI services.
The broader architecture treats virtual machines and containers as first-class infrastructure, with Nutanix describing the approach as “dual-native.” Nutanix said the objective is to let AI workloads run near existing applications and data without requiring organizations to move those workloads into a single deployment model. “Enterprise AI should not require customers to rebuild the systems that already run their business,” Thomas Cornely, executive vice president of product management at Nutanix, said in the…
