Nutanix Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure Magic Quadrant™

Nutanix has once again been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI). 

What’s New this Year?

• Our platform continues to evolve, with major advancements in simplified hybrid operations, container management, cloud-native data services, AI infrastructure, and sovereign cloud support.
• We’ve expanded our customer reach by extending our platform value to enterprise storage,  with support for Dell PowerFlex and Pure Storage FlashArray.

A Unified Platform that Simplifies Hybrid Infrastructure Across Data Center, Cloud, and Edge

At the core of our innovation is the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), a unified software-defined solution that simplifies how organizations manage apps and data across private data centers, public clouds, and edge locations.

Here’s what we believe sets us apart:

• One platform, one operating model: NCP delivers a unified platform with consistent operations, security, resilience,  and governance across environments, reducing complexity and improving efficiency. 
• Portability across datacenter, cloud, and edge: Not only does the singular platform provide consistent operations and integrated security across locations and deployment types, NCP licenses are themselves fully portable, giving organizations the ability to adapt the footprint of their infrastructure flexibly according to changing needs. 
• One platform for virtual machines and containers: Nutanix provides a complete suite of storage and data services, lifecycle management, and security and governance services for virtual machines as well as containers, enabling organizations to manage their entire infrastructure fleet across heterogeneous environments.
• Cloud-native capabilities: Our Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and new Cloud Native AOS offering extend enterprise-grade container and data services to Kubernetes® deployments without the need for a virtualization layer.
• AI-ready infrastructure: Nutanix Enterprise AI simplifies the deployment  and management of generative AI models and inference endpoints securely and at scale.
• Advanced Data Services: NCP includes integrated scale-out storage, files, objects, snapshots, disaster recovery, data security, and database services to run all workloads.

Recognition Among Top Multicloud Container Platforms

We believe support for container workloads is a key element of the DHI MQ. We’re also proud to be recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 20251. Forrester gave Nutanix the highest possible scores in current offering criteria such as cluster lifecycle operations, container storage, and edge computing, as well as in strategy criteria including roadmap, partner ecosystem, and supporting services and offerings.

Nutanix is Built for What’s Next

The infrastructure landscape is rapidly shifting, becoming more distributed, and driving digital transformation. Whether you're in the public sector, financial services, healthcare, or any industry with complex infrastructure needs, Nutanix is ready to help you modernize with confidence. Our platform is designed to handle distributed, hybrid, multicloud environments, sovereign workloads, edge deployments, and more, all with the simplicity and resilience that Nutanix is known for.

Learn more about how DHI can modernize your business. Read the full Gartner® report here.

Access the Forrester report here.

About the Author: Kanchan has 25 years of enterprise technology marketing experience in infrastructure platforms, enterprise collaboration, application security, virtualization, identity federation, automation, and orchestration. At Nutanix, she leads product marketing for a variety of products, including the virtualization, networking, and hybrid cloud deployment parts of the core Nutanix platform, as well as PaaS services like database automation and Enterprise AI.

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