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Publication Date: 2026-08-26 16:43:00
Nutanix is extending its cloud platform for production agentic AI with new inference, governance, Kubernetes and multitenancy capabilities aimed at helping enterprises and service providers build, run and secure AI agents across hybrid environments.
Nutanix has enhanced and expanded its Nutanix Cloud Platform for production agentic AI with the addition of a dual-native architecture featuring a new Model Context Protocol, or MPC, agent gateway as well as streamlined container management.
San Jose, Calif.-based Nutanix Wednesday unveiled Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.8, which offers centralized control for AI inference and agentic AI.
Also new is Nutanix Kubernetes Platform 2.19, which is slated to streamline container management for bare-metal and virtualized environments. NKP 2.19 includes a built-in AI catalog for building and running agentic AI applications.
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Thomas Cornely, Nutanix’s executive vice president of product management, told CRN the enhancements come at a time when agents are running on CPUs and GPUs and containers on both legacy and virtual machine infrastructure.
“You have your core infrastructure, your agentic, compute-centric tier, and your intelligence tier,” Cornely said. “Very few companies, and I would argue…