Nutanix Goes All In On Cloud With New AI Platform, Expanded AWS Partnership

Nvidia, Hugging Face, and other prominent tech firms factor into the new offerings.

Nutanix, a provider of hybrid multicloud computing services — many of which are targeted to the midmarket — today announced its latest offering: Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI).

NAI is a hybrid multicloud environment for AI workloads. It enables organizations to “leverage their models and data in a secure location of their choice while improving [ROI],” Nutanix said in a news release.

The new platform can be deployed in several ways: on Kubernetes, at the edge of a network, in the datacenter, and in public clouds including Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKS).

NAI is integrated with Nvidia NIM – which is “a set of accelerated inference microservices that allow organizations to run AI models on Nvidia GPUs anywhere,” according to Nvidia, and also with open foundational models from Hugging Face.

The bottom line: Nutanix asserts that NAI can bring enterprise-level infrastructure to GenAI workloads and help midmarket customers “remove barriers to building an AI-ready platform.”

Some of NAI’s features:

• Comes with unified storage
• Provides ability to run models and data on customer-controlled compute resources
• Dashboard for troubleshooting, observability, and insight into LLM resource utilization
• Deployable in air-gapped or dark-site environments

Nutanix also highlighted some real-world use cases for NAI which include enhancing customer experience, intelligent document processing, analytics, security, and accelerating code and content generation.

In addition, last week, Nutanix announced it had expanded its partnership with AWS. The collaboration will allow Nutanix customers to “leverage Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS,” Nutanix said in a news release.

According to Nutanix, running NC2 on Amazon Web Services allows for faster, low-risk migrations, scalability, and increased cloud efficiency.

“Organizations feeling the dual pressure of leveraging public cloud's benefits, along with the need to maintain existing legacy applications that don't port over easily, will be able to utilize the joint solution to execute on their cloud strategy without expensive refactoring. Our collaboration with AWS will enable customers to seamlessly extend their on-premises Nutanix environment to AWS, along with promotional credits to support customer migrations and proof of concepts.,” Tarkan Maner, chief commercial officer at Nutanix, said in a statement to MES Computing.