By By David Ramel04/07/2026
Publication Date: 2026-04-07 00:00:00
Nutanix Spotlights Cloud Platform Update, New Agentic AI Services
Nutanix this week used its annual .NEXT user conference in Chicago to frame a pair of announcements around a common theme: giving enterprises and service providers more infrastructure options as AI workloads move from pilots into production. The company said the updates are meant to address growing demand for platforms that can support virtual machines, containers and AI applications while also giving customers more control over where workloads run and how data is governed.
.NEXT 2026 is taking place April 7-9 in Chicago and is focused on enterprise AI, distributed data, modern IT and cloud native innovation. Within that setting, the company’s April 7 news included a focus on two related areas: a broader expansion of Nutanix Cloud Platform, or NCP, and new agentic AI capabilities aimed at a new class of AI-focused service providers it calls neoclouds.
NCP Expansion Adds AI, Kubernetes, Storage and Data Services
In its broader platform announcement, Nutanix said new capabilities to the Nutanix Cloud Platform are intended to help organizations handle expanding AI workloads, more complex cloud environments and continuing hardware supply constraints. The company positioned the update as part of a push to…
