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Publication Date: 2026-08-26 13:00:00
Nutanix Inc. today introduced new capabilities intended to help enterprises run agentic artificial intelligence applications alongside existing virtual machines and containerized workloads without splitting their infrastructure into separate management silos.
The updates include the general availability of Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.8 and a forthcoming release of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform 2.19. Nutanix also made its Service Provider Central program for cloud partners generally available and detailed a partner program for building cloud, Kubernetes, AI and virtual machine migration services.
The company calls its approach “dual-native” because its platform treats VMs and containers as first-class infrastructure. That means customers can run Kubernetes on Nutanix’s Acropolis Hypervisor virtualization platform when isolation and operational consistency are priorities or deploy Kubernetes directly on bare-metal systems for workloads that require different performance or resource profiles.
The distinction is not simply the ability to support both architectures, said Thomas Cornely, executive vice president of product management at Nutanix.. “It’s not about getting containers working; it’s about how you operate and manage those containers,” he said.
The customer selects the environment for each workload, and Nutanix optimizes deployment based on that decision. “They decide,” Cornely said. “What we can do is provide optimizations of how the workload is…
