Nutanix Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms

News Summary

• Nutanix is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner^® Magic Quadrant^™ for Server Virtualization Platforms. This recognition arrives at a pivotal moment for IT leaders, many of whom are actively reassessing their virtualization strategy amidst industry consolidation, rising costs, and increasingly restrictive licensing models.
• Nutanix is positioned highest for Ability to Execute and recognized for its Completeness of Vision.
• As organizations navigate the transition from legacy environments to modern AI-ready hybrid architectures, Nutanix offers a proven, future-ready platform that prioritizes infrastructure freedom, operational simplicity, and technological superiority. Unlike legacy virtualization stacks that are being forced into rigid, “all-or-nothing” enterprise bundles, Nutanix delivers modular licensing that enables organizations to consume capabilities appropriate to their needs and modernize at their own pace. 
  

Why it Matters

The recognition evaluates Nutanix’s capabilities in server virtualization and comes as organizations continue to readjust to the changing virtualization industry landscape. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), with its built-in AHV hypervisor based on proven open-source KVM virtualization technology, brings together compute, storage, networking and virtualization 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. 

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a hybrid cloud leader and AI platform company, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms. 

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), with its built-in AHV hypervisor, provides the infrastructure foundation of Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), helping organizations run and manage workloads across hybrid cloud environments. NCI brings together compute, storage, networking, and virtualization capabilities to provide a consistent operating model across different infrastructure environments.

“As organizations modernize their infrastructure and prepare to run agentic AI at scale, they need a platform that gives them flexibility without added complexity and silos,” said Ketan Shah, Vice President of Product Management, Nutanix. “We believe being named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner^® Magic Quadrant^™ for Server Virtualization Platforms highlights how Nutanix empowers customers to run AI, virtual machines, and containers seamlessly across an expanding choice of clouds, sovereign locations, server and storage architectures, and managed service providers.”   

Nutanix continues to support a broad range of workloads by offering flexible deployment architectures across an expanding list of server and storage hardware as well as public cloud locations, giving customers more flexibility and enabling them to leverage their existing investments when supply chains are constrained. Recent milestones include the general availability of support for Dell PowerStore, major updates for Everpure FlashArray and Dell PowerFlex, as well as limited availability of NetApp ONTAP, extending the range of infrastructure options customers can use while maintaining a consistent operating model. 

Nutanix also recently introduced a full-stack Agentic AI solution that includes a secure, high-performance virtualization foundation for AI infrastructure. The solution brings together compute, networking, storage, and Kubernetes services to run AI workloads efficiently across hybrid cloud environments. 

Nutanix also recently announced a strategic neocloud partnership with ChronoScale to extend its platform capabilities into accelerated compute and AI services.  

In total, these advancements are designed to help customers modernize infrastructure while maintaining flexibility, consistent operations, and control across AI, VMs, and container workloads. 

Customer Commentary

“We didn't just want a replacement for legacy virtualization; we needed a future-proof foundation for our ambitious AI and cloud-native initiatives. With Nutanix, we have a platform that supports our new initiatives right alongside our core enterprise applications and removes a lot of hurdles from our journey.”

- Bhart Panwar, Additional General Manager, BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited)

“Nutanix has been instrumental in our infrastructure modernization journey at Ente Autonomo Volturno. By providing a unified operating model that seamlessly bridges our virtualization and container environments, Nutanix allows us to efficiently manage our mission-critical applications and disaster recovery sites. The platform's proven reliability and ease of use have given our IT team the confidence to innovate and scale our services, while ensuring high availability and operational resilience for the transportation system of the Campania Region.”

— Luciano Ragazzi, IT Director and CISO, Ente Autonomo Volturno 

“Nutanix Cloud Platform gave us the freedom to move away from VMware after it was acquired by Broadcom and deliver a true hybrid cloud model. It allowed us to have a dual-native capacity where services like security, networking, and data protection are unified across both VMs and containers. Finally, it also accelerates our journey to AI with Nutanix Enterprise AI, offering a cloud-native control plane and platform for innovation via a familiar, easily manageable, and integrated environment.” 

– Jasim Abdul Rahman, group CIO, Power International Holding

“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

“AI and cloud native initiatives are critical to our business, but they also place significant demands on our IT infrastructure. Birlasoft needed a future-ready platform that went beyond simply replacing legacy virtualization. With Nutanix, we now have a modern foundation that supports our innovation roadmap while continuing to run and scale our core enterprise applications.”

– Vinod Krishnan, Global Head - IT, Birlasoft Limited

Gartner, Inc, Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms, Tony Harvey, Daniel Bowers, Paul Delory, Tony Iams, Owen Marino, 14 September 2026​

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