Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud computing company that provides a unified software platform for running applications, data, and AI across datacenters, on-premises environments, edge locations, and public clouds. Its core proposition is a consistent operating model that helps enterprises simplify infrastructure modernization, support workload portability, and reduce the operational friction of managing distributed environments.
The portfolio spans cloud infrastructure, multicloud management, storage, database automation, Kubernetes operations, and enterprise AI. Nutanix positions its software to help organizations run traditional and cloud-native workloads with stronger governance, resilience, and cost control, while also supporting digital sovereignty and AI-ready infrastructure strategies.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Nutanix combines software-defined compute, storage, networking, virtualization, container orchestration, and automation into a common operating model for hybrid multicloud environments. Its capabilities cover infrastructure lifecycle management, self-service provisioning, policy-based governance, security controls, cost visibility, backup and disaster recovery, and unified visibility across distributed estates.
The company is built for organizations that want to run VMs, containers, databases, and AI workloads across private and public environments without maintaining separate toolchains for each location. Nutanix also emphasizes integration with native hyperscaler services and existing cloud accounts, enabling customers to extend on-premises environments into public cloud while preserving operational consistency and application mobility.
Products and Services
- Nutanix Cloud Platform: Unified platform that bundles Nutanix infrastructure and cloud management software to run applications, data, and AI across private and public environments with a common operating model.
- Nutanix Central: Unified cloud console that provides global visibility, centralized control, governance, and service-centric management across Nutanix environments.
- Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure: Software-defined infrastructure foundation for compute, storage, and networking across datacenter, edge, and cloud environments.
- Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2): Public cloud deployment model that extends Nutanix software onto bare-metal infrastructure in public clouds for migration, disaster recovery, burst capacity, and hybrid operations.
- Nutanix Database Service: Database-as-a-service platform for provisioning, patching, cloning, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management of supported SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases.
- Nutanix Kubernetes Platform: Enterprise Kubernetes platform for deploying, securing, observing, and managing Kubernetes clusters across on-premises, edge, and multicloud environments.
- Nutanix Cloud Manager: Cloud management platform for intelligent operations, self-service, orchestration, security visibility, and cost governance across hybrid estates.
- Nutanix Unified Storage: Software-defined unified storage platform that consolidates file, object, and block storage with integrated data services and protection.
- Nutanix Enterprise AI: Enterprise AI software for deploying, securing, monitoring, and governing inference services and AI endpoints across datacenter, edge, and cloud environments.
- Nutanix Disaster Recovery: Integrated disaster recovery offering for protecting applications and data with replication, orchestration, and recovery workflows across Nutanix environments.
- Nutanix Move: Workload mobility and migration tool for moving applications and virtual machines from existing environments into Nutanix with minimal downtime.
- Frame: Desktop-as-a-service offering for delivering virtual applications and desktops from public cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
- Nutanix Agentic AI: Full-stack software solution designed to help organizations build, operate, and govern AI factories and agentic AI workloads.
- NKP Metal: Bare-metal Kubernetes offering that extends the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform operating model to physical infrastructure with automated deployment and lifecycle management.
Target Customers
Nutanix targets enterprises, public sector organizations, and service providers that need to run business-critical applications, databases, virtual desktops, cloud-native workloads, and AI workloads across a mix of on-premises, edge, and public cloud environments. Its buying centers typically include infrastructure operations, cloud operations, platform engineering, database teams, security and governance leaders, and IT modernization programs.
The company has clear relevance for regulated and distributed industries that need operational consistency, resilience, and control, including financial services, healthcare, government, education, retail, manufacturing, legal, media and entertainment, automotive, and service providers. It is especially well aligned to organizations pursuing hybrid multicloud, private cloud, disaster recovery, edge, cloud-native, and enterprise AI initiatives.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Nutanix maintains an AWS Marketplace presence for its software offerings, supporting procurement of Nutanix software for AWS-based deployments. Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS also integrates with native AWS networking and services.
- Azure Marketplace: Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Microsoft Azure is available through Azure Marketplace, enabling customers to procure Nutanix software for Azure deployments and run clusters inside their own Azure environments and VNets.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Google Cloud can be procured through Google Cloud Marketplace, giving customers a marketplace path to run Nutanix on Google Cloud bare-metal infrastructure and connect with native Google Cloud services.
Key People
- Rajiv Ramaswami: Chief Executive Officer
- Tarkan Maner: President & Chief Commercial Officer
- Rukmini Sivaraman: Chief Financial Officer
- Andrew Brinded: Chief Revenue Officer
- Shyam Desirazu: EVP, Engineering
- Thomas Cornely: EVP, Product Management
- Mandy Dhaliwal: Chief Marketing Officer
- Brian Martin: Chief Legal Officer
- Jennifer Lepird: Chief People Officer
- Inder Sidhu: Chief Customer Experience Officer
Key Facts
- Headquarters: San Jose, California, United States
- Employees: Approximately 7,800
- Annual Revenue: $2.54 billion
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Dozens of global operating entities, including Nutanix Netherlands B.V., Nutanix Pty. Ltd., Nutanix Canada Inc., Nutanix Belgium BV, and Nutanix Brazil Technologies Ltda.
- Publicly Listed: NASDAQ: NTNX
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure — Leader. 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management — Challenger.
- Forrester: The Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025 — Leader.
