Nutanix Recognised Across Three 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports

• 19 Sep 2026
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Nutanix has been recognised across three 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant reports: Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, Server Virtualisation and Container Management.

The recognitions cover Nutanix Cloud Platform and its capabilities across AI workloads, applications, data, virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes environments.

Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure: Nutanix was recognised as a Leader for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Nutanix Cloud Platform gives organisations a unified platform to run and manage AI workloads, applications, and data across on-premises, cloud and edge environments, while maintaining flexibility in how and where they deploy infrastructure.

o   Nutanix continues to build on its abilities in virtualisation while expanding support for cloud native applications through a dual-native architecture that brings virtual machines and containers together under a consistent operating model. Additional innovations include the introduction of NKP Metal, which will extend the Nutanix operating model to bare-metal Kubernetes environments.

o   “Organisations are rethinking their infrastructure strategies as hybrid cloud environments become more complex and new requirements around AI, application modernisation, and sovereignty emerge,” said Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President of Product Management, Nutanix. “We believe our recognition as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure reflects the continued evolution of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, giving customers a consistent cloud operating model with the flexibility and control to run AI workloads, applications, and data across the environments that best meet their needs.”

·       Server Virtualisation Platforms: Nutanix was recognised as a Leader, positioned highest for Ability to Execute and recognised for its Completeness of Vision. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure brings together compute, storage, networking, and virtualisation capabilities to provide a consistent operating model across diverse infrastructure.

o   The recognition evaluates Nutanix’s capabilities in server virtualisation and comes as organisations continue to readjust to the changing virtualisation industry landscape. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), with its built-in AHV hypervisor based on proven open-source KVM virtualisation technology, brings together compute, storage, networking and virtualisation as the infrastructure foundation for Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), providing a unified way to run, manage, and govern VMs, containers, and AI workloads across distributed environments. 

o   "Our Nutanix journey started more than a decade ago as a move away from traditional three-tier infrastructure, and today the platform supports around 90% of our on-premises environment. We've progressively moved from VMware to AHV, consolidated our core enterprise applications, and expanded the platform to support GPU-enabled teaching and research, self-service infrastructure, and hybrid cloud. What has worked particularly well for us is having a platform that can reliably support the University's critical systems while continuing to evolve with our needs in areas such as AI, automation, and cloud native."  Justin Mason, Associate Director, Technology Services, University of Canberra

·       Container Management: Nutanix was recognised as a Challenger for the second consecutive year, following the 2024 launch of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). NKP is designed to simplify Kubernetes operations and can operate independently or as part of Nutanix Cloud Platform, enabling Kubernetes across virtualised and bare-metal infrastructure, public cloud, edge and air-gapped environments.

o   NKP can operate independently or as part of NCP, enabling Kubernetes across virtualised and bare-metal infrastructure, public cloud, edge, and air-gapped environments. It helps organisations simplify the management of cloud native applications across distributed, stateful, and disconnected environments while providing a unified infrastructure foundation for traditional, modern and AI workloads.

o   “As organisations modernise their applications and embrace AI, they need infrastructure that gives them greater simplicity and flexibility without creating new silos,” said Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix. “We believe our recognition for the second consecutive year reflects the progress we’ve made with NKP, and our broader approach to helping customers run traditional, cloud native and AI workloads on a unified platform.”