Government and Education

Government and Education IT Runs Best on Nutanix

Nutanix eliminates IT silos with a secure, software-defined platform—freeing your teams to focus on their missions and the constituents they serve.

A Common Cloud Operating Model across Data Centers, Edge and Public Clouds

Run virtualized apps, containers and AI workloads anywhere —with unified data management, security and the control IT leaders need to support mission success and digital sovereignty.

Power Your Infrastructure

Break free from vendor lock-in and choose best-in-class solutions at every layer of the technology stack.

Power of the Platform

Deploy modern workloads (containers, AI/ML) alongside 3-Tier systems. Move them where needed. Scale instantly.

Power Your AI Success

Deploy, operate and adapt your enterprise LLMs and secure APIs using your current IT staff.


The Nutanix Difference

Protect Data and Systems With Built-In Security

Native security across compute, storage and network eliminates gaps and tool sprawl. Built-in encryption, microsegmentation and zero-trust controls protect data and workloads wherever they run.

Operational Simplicity for Your Existing Teams

Centralized management provides unified visibility and control over VMs, containers and AI workloads. Unified data management consolidates file, object, and block storage under one license.


Industry Leadership and Reputation

Nutanix is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. Nutanix is also a Leader in The 2025 Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025.


Technology Highlights for Government and Education

One Platform to Run Your Cloud-Native Workloads

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform delivers a DoD-hardened, enterprise-grade Kubernetes management solution built for IT operations across on-prem, air-gapped, public cloud, classified IL-6 environments, and edge locations.

Secure and Private Full AI Stack

Simplify deployment and management with a services-led full-stack enterprise AI solution (GPT-in-a-Box) versus stitching together disparate components from different vendors.

Unified Data Management

Consolidate file, object and block storage into one platform. Manage all data types across edge, on-premises and cloud with built-in security, ransomware protection, and one consumption-based license.

Nutanix is Trusted by 29,000+ Customers

Nutanix FAQ for Government IT Leaders

Nutanix delivers comprehensive security with FIPS-validated encryption, microsegmentation, and alignment to a zero-trust architecture. The platform maintains FedRAMP-ready status, Common Criteria, and PCI-DSS certifications. It includes preconfigured STIGs, automated compliance remediation, and centralized policy management across on-premises, edge, and hybrid deployments, supporting FISMA, HIPAA, and data privacy regulations.

Nutanix converges compute, storage, and virtualization into a software-defined platform, eliminating separate hardware and management tools. Per a recent IDC 2025 “The Business Value of Nutanix” report, customers achieved 41% infrastructure cost reductions over three years with 391% ROI. The platform delivers 30% security team efficiency gains, 36% IT infrastructure improvements, and 77% less unplanned downtime—critical advantages for government budget constraints and operational effectiveness.

Nutanix Cloud Platform provides consistent operations across on-premises data centers, edge locations, and public clouds like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and OVHcloud in any number or combination. Edge environments operate with data center-level performance, resilience, and security. With unified management, you gain deployment flexibility and easy lifecycle management. Nutanix enables secure, scalable mission-critical operations anywhere data processing occurs.

Yes, Nutanix's scale-out architecture supports incremental expansion without large upfront investments, accommodating growing AI workloads. Nutanix Enterprise AI enables secure large language model deployment on-premises or at the edge with full data sovereignty. GPU acceleration delivers performance for training and inference operations. Nutanix provides a unified approach to data management, and agencies can run Nutanix in air-gapped or dark sites if needed, while maintaining infrastructure control.

The risk of vendor lock-in is low as Nutanix supports choice across the technology stack, including hardware, hypervisors, clouds, Kubernetes platforms, and LLMs. Since Nutanix can be deployed anywhere, workloads move freely between on-premises, public clouds and edge without refactoring.  This open approach enables rapid responses to changing missions and data surges while maintaining application portability.

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