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Publication Date: 2026-07-02 07:00:00
LONDON – Nutanix is pushing enterprise infrastructure control to a new level with Agent Gateway, an AI control plane that centralizes governance and optimization of model usage, while giving CIOs a way to rein in “free‑for‑all” token spending.
Positioned between users, applications, and a growing mix of open‑weight and frontier models, the gateway lets enterprises set policies on who can use what, for which workloads, and at what cost. Its introduction aims to curb unnecessary token spending, providing a centralized view for businesses of who is consuming what and how to control token usage.
Where employees today may use frontier-level models for trivial tasks like simple document summarizations, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami touts its control plane offering as a means to define ROI from AI deployments, defining who can use which tools and models, for which use cases, and how much they are permitted to spend in tokens.
“It’s a free-for-all. Anybody can go to anything they want,” Ramaswami said in a press briefing. With the vendor’s Agent Gateway, however, he explained that businesses can put in place rules that give engineering teams access to “a simple model” for a set of use cases, while reserving the fanciest system for the most difficult, multi-agent applications.
Ramaswami said the AI gateway concept is already resonating at the C‑suite level prior to launch, noting that in a dozen CIO and COO meetings during a recent trip to London, such an idea…