If you didn’t manage to attend .NEXT 2026 in Chicago, here’s our top takeaways from Nutanix’s latest announcements.
AI scale, more choice, and stronger governance
Nutanix is expanding its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) to give organisations a more complete foundation for the Agentic AI era, helping them run growing AI workloads with greater reliability, consistency, and control.
The new updates bring together compute, storage, networking, and AI services in one unified full-stack platform, while also extending infrastructure choice and strengthening governance across hybrid and distributed environments.
Other key announcements include:
- Greater flexibility for modernising VMs and containers using existing investments.
- NetApp collaboration with NetApp ONTAP added as an external storage option.
- Extended Dell partnership with an upcoming PowerStore integration.
Building new revenue with multitenant AI services
With Service Provider Central and new enhancements across its Agentic AI stack, you can now securely run multiple customers on shared GPU infrastructure while maintaining strong tenant isolation. This creates a practical path to offer more than GPU-as-a-service, including Kubernetes, notebooks, and model-based services, helping you:
- Unlock new revenue streams with secure, scalable AI services.
- Gain actionable insights through advanced metering and observability tools.
- Simplify the packaging, management, and scaling of your AI offerings.
Easing migration and modernisation
Nutanix is also helping businesses migrate with less disruption. The newly announced migration incentives are set to lower the cost of operating dual platforms during transition, while verified solution programmes will help you validate hosted offerings like IaaS, sovereign IaaS, and DRaaS.
A stronger ecosystem for growth
The biggest takeaway from .Next 2026 is that Nutanix is now offering infrastructure, cloud, and service provider partners a clearer route to profitable AI services, smoother migration, and stronger differentiation in a competitive cloud market.
You can catch up with all the latest announcements by watching the key sessions from .NEXT 2026 on demand via the link below.
Simplify Virtualisation with Nutanix & NetApp