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Publication Date: 2025-12-17 19:21:00
Nutanix Inc. is expanding its Nutanix Cloud Platform with new capabilities designed to help enterprises and government agencies build and operate distributed sovereign cloud environments while maintaining centralized security, control and resilience. The company is also adding new cloud management and migration aimed at enticing users of VMware Inc. virtualization.
The announcement targets organizations facing growing regulatory, privacy, and data-residency requirements as they deploy applications across on-premises data centers, public clouds, and edge locations. Nutanix said the updates enable customers to define and operate their own sovereign cloud architectures across traditional, cloud native and artificial intelligence workloads, including fully disconnected “dark site” environments, without relying on external software-as-a-service control planes.
AI is also providing a tailwind for sovereign clouds, said Lee Caswell, senior vice president of product and solutions marketing. The cost, complexity and security risks of moving large volumes of data to a central cloud for model training is spurring more organizations to look at distributed architectures.
“Historically, sovereignty has been a very tightly constrained boundary,” Caswell said. “We’re finding that as customers start thinking about where data is replicated to and restored to, AI is pushing for a more distributed data and applications world.”
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