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Publication Date: 2025-05-07 07:00:00
Nutanix is becoming cloud-native and hypervisor-independent, supporting external storage and embracing generative AI as it aims to provide a generalized software platform on which you can run anything, anywhere.
At its .NEXT 2025 conference, Nutanix is announcing cloud-native AOS, general availability of its Dell PowerFlex support, integration with Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashStack offerings, and a Nutanix Enterprise AI initiative with Nvidia and agentic embedding.
Lee Caswell, Nutanix SVP for product and solutions marketing, said: “The key themes fall into three categories. The first is about moving to a modern infrastructure, [then] the idea that you can build apps and run anywhere [and] supporting agentic workloads going forward.”
AOS is Nutanix’s Acropolis Operating System for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). There is a built-in hypervisor – AHV – to support guest operating systems and applications, and a virtual SAN aggregating the server node’s SSD and/or disk storage into a single pool of block storage. Flow provides virtual networking and security. AHV is actually separate from AOS and can be replaced by another hypervisor, such as VMware’s vSphere. The whole Nutanix software stack is called Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
The AOS virtual SAN can be replaced by an external storage system for users who need to separately grow their storage capacity from their server compute, with the…
