Nutanix named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. One platform for simplified app, data, and AI management across any environment.
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure market, highlighting key trends such as the shift toward hybrid cloud platforms, the rise of AI-ready infrastructure, and growing demand for sovereign cloud support. It helps IT leaders, infrastructure architects, and operations teams navigate complexity and modernize how they manage apps and data across diverse environments.
Nutanix is named a Leader—a recognition we view as testament of our continued innovation in virtualization, containers, and enterprise storage across datacenter, cloud, and edge.
One Platform,
One Operating Model
Simplify operations and governance across environments, reducing complexity and improving efficiency.
Portability Across Environments
Move workloads and licenses seamlessly across datacenter, cloud, and edge to meet changing business needs.
Unified Support for VMs and Containers
Manage virtual machines and Kubernetes workloads with integrated storage, lifecycle, and security services.
Cloud Native Capabilities
Extend enterprise-grade data services to Kubernetes—no virtualization layer required.
The Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI) market is rapidly transforming as organizations seek flexible, secure platforms to manage workloads across datacenter, cloud, and edge. Nutanix has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, recognized for its ability to execute and completeness of vision.
Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers a consistent operating model across environments, supporting virtual machines, containers, and cloud-native applications. With innovations in AI infrastructure, sovereign cloud support, and simplified hybrid operations, Nutanix helps organizations modernize with confidence.
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Thanks to Nutanix, we've not only accelerated our workflow, but we’ve also revolutionized it. We've broken through barriers we once thought impenetrable, and we’re handling massive amounts of data like it's child's play.
Nutanix gives us a single management platform to balance our workloads across multiple clouds. It is the key to our hybrid cloud strategy – an in-house infrastructure that natively connects to cloud and optimizes costs.
NC2 has been a game changer for us, because we’ve already got an investment in Nutanix. We’ve got the ability to scale really rapidly and we don’t have to do a huge amount of transformation to do that, it’s also cost effective.
Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure refers to platforms that support consistent operations across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. These solutions enable flexibility, unified management, and support for modern workloads like containers and AI.
This report is essential for IT leaders, infrastructure architects, and operations teams looking to simplify hybrid cloud management, modernize infrastructure, and evaluate platforms that support virtualization, containers, and AI.
Nutanix Enterprise AI helps organizations deploy and manage generative AI models and inference endpoints securely and at scale, with the flexibility to run across datacenter, cloud, and edge environments.
Nutanix Cloud Platform provides integrated lifecycle management, storage, and governance for both VMs and Kubernetes workloads—allowing organizations to manage diverse infrastructure from a single platform.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, Julia Palmer, Jeffrey Hewitt, Dennis Smith, Tony Harvey, Elaine Zhang, 8 September 2025
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