Nutanix has announced the general availability of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.8 and Service Provider Central, alongside the upcoming release of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 2.19.
The new capabilities are designed to help enterprises deploy and manage artificial intelligence, containerised applications and virtual machines through a more unified infrastructure environment without requiring organisations to rebuild their existing systems.
A key focus of NAI 2.8 is agentic AI, with the generally available MCP Gateway providing a secure entry point for AI agents to access enterprise tools and data. The platform also introduces enhanced private inference capabilities, including multi-GPU inference, fine-tuning and speculative decoding, which Nutanix says can accelerate AI model responses by up to 2.5 times.
Security has also been strengthened through fine-grained identity and access controls designed to limit what AI agents and models can access within enterprise environments.
NKP 2.19 is expected to introduce capabilities including NKP Metal for simplified bare-metal Kubernetes deployments and an AI Applications Catalogue that enables one-click deployment of selected AI and machine learning software.
Nutanix also highlighted the expansion of its AI infrastructure ecosystem, noting that Nutanix Unified Storage has achieved NVIDIA-Certified Storage validation to support data throughput and GPU utilisation for enterprise AI workloads.
The company has also launched the Powered by Nutanix: Verified Services programme, designed to help partners develop recurring-revenue services around hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, AI and VMware migration.
“Enterprise AI should not require customers to rebuild the systems that already run their business,” said Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President, Product Management at Nutanix.
NAI 2.8 and Service Provider Central are now generally available, while NKP 2.19 is expected to become generally available soon.
