The demands on enterprise infrastructure are growing fast. Your customers need to manage traditional applications, containers, data, and AI workloads across increasingly distributed environments, without losing control over security, costs, or compliance.
Nutanix is responding with a unified platform approach, and its latest industry recognition reinforces that direction. Across three Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ evaluations and the Forrester Wave™, Nutanix has received four major analyst recognitions spanning modern infrastructure, virtualisation, container management, and object storage.
For partners, this is a strong opportunity to position Nutanix as a comprehensive solution for customers looking to modernise and prepare for AI.
Four recognitions. One unified vision.
Nutanix's latest analyst recognitions span the core technologies organisations need to build and manage modern IT environments:
Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure: Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure for the third time.
Server Virtualisation Platforms: Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualisation Platforms, positioned highest for Ability to Execute.
Container Management: Named a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management for another year.
Object Storage: Named a Leader and Customer Favourite in The Forrester Wave™: Object Storage Solutions, Q2 2026.
Together, these recognitions highlight the breadth of Nutanix's offering and its continued progress towards a consistent operating model that helps customers manage and govern VMs, containers, and AI applications across evolving data centre, cloud, and edge environments.
Built for the next generation of enterprise IT
As AI initiatives move into production, organisations need infrastructure that can support changing demands without introducing more complexity. Nutanix Cloud Platform, combined with Nutanix Enterprise AI and its broader portfolio, helps customers bring applications, data, Kubernetes, and AI together across distributed environments.
With Nutanix, you can help customers:
- Run VMs, containers, and AI workloads across hybrid cloud
- Maintain consistent security, governance, and operational control
- Meet increasing data sovereignty and compliance requirements
- Modernise infrastructure while preserving existing investments
- Scale AI adoption with access to the resources and infrastructure needed
Turn industry recognition into customer confidence
Four analyst recognitions provide a timely starting point for conversations with customers evaluating their infrastructure strategies.
Whether they're reassessing virtualisation, expanding Kubernetes deployments, or preparing to run AI at scale, you can help them understand how Nutanix's unified approach supports their changing requirements.
Access the latest analyst research, including the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, or explore all four recognitions and identify where Nutanix could fit into your customers’ long-term strategies.
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