Nutanix Cloud Platform Empowers Enterprise Agentic AI Built with NVIDIA AI Data Platform

By Kaushik Ghosh, director, product management, 

and Alex Almeida, senior product marketing manager, Nutanix, Inc.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform solution leverages the NVIDIA AI Data Platform innovations, empowering enterprises to transform their business with agentic AI.

Nutanix Cloud Platform brings enterprise IT into the era of agentic AI. Industry leaders can now deploy and operate distributed systems that unlock the full value of business data to fuel insight-driven actions. Building on the NVIDIA Data Platform reference design, Nutanix Cloud Platform integrates the Nutanix Unified Storage solution, the AHV hypervisor and the AOS Storage OS, with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, networking, and AI software, to turn data into actionable intelligence.

As an NVIDIA-Certified Enterprise Storage solution, Nutanix Unified Storage meets rigorous performance and scalability standards, providing software-defined enterprise storage for enterprise AI workloads. This enables customers to deploy a full-stack AI solution leveraging Nutanix and NVIDIA technologies.

Powering AI Reasoning with Data Platform Built for Enterprises
Enterprises are generating unprecedented amounts of data, yet modern AI applications can utilize only a small fraction of it due to the overwhelming scale and complexity of enterprise data, most of it being unstructured. Traditional storage and computing architectures struggle to support advanced AI workloads, such as agentic AI, which require orchestration and ultra-fast data transfer.

To address these challenges, Nutanix Cloud Platform is integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, providing enterprises with a high-performance infrastructure solution to efficiently process, retrieve, and transfer massive datasets. By leveraging NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, Nutanix Cloud Platform opens the door to use cases that demand continuous, near real-time processing of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, helping AI agents to extract and retrieve insights at unprecedented speed.

The platform also features the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint, powered by NeMo Retriever microservices, to accelerate real-time data retrieval. By eliminating bottlenecks, enterprises can fully harness their data, enabling seamless scaling and optimizing AI-driven operations. This next-gen approach empowers organizations to move beyond data limitations and drive innovation and business growth.

Nutanix Unified Storage, Data Hero: Consistent, Scalable, Flexible, and Secure
Just like a superhero is known for an unwavering commitment to keeping the world safe, Nutanix Unified Storage provides a robust and consistent data platform that supports the data hungry needs of AI models throughout the entire AI data lifecycle. Part of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, Nutanix Unified Storage offers unified file, object, and block storage services with security, analytics and governance for enterprise workloads. Its software-defined architecture provides superior scalability and flexibility, supporting deployment on any qualified OEM server or infrastructure — on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud.

Key features include:

• Scalable High-Performance Storage: Scaling from just 1TB to petabytes and 10GBs/s throughput, Nutanix Unified Storage can be the single enterprise storage platform for all stages of the AI lifecycle, handling everything from raw data collection at the edge to big data lakes, AI model fine-tuning, and real-time AI agent decision-making.

• Hybrid and Multicloud Flexibility: As a software-defined storage solution, Nutanix Unified Storage supports deployment on any qualified OEM server or infrastructure – whether on-premises, at the edge, or in public cloud environments. With seamless data mobility, geo-federation, and built-in data migration from third-party storage, Nutanix Unified Storage helps bridge private and public cloud boundaries to deploy AI workloads.

• Data Management and Security: Nutanix Unified Storage simplifies data management through its rich data services platform, making it easier for enterprises to handle complex AI/ML workflows. Together with the Nutanix Data Lens a SaaS-based data security solution, NUS delivers built-in ransomware resiliency, data governance and data lifecycle management for securely managing the AI data pipeline.

Some of key Nutanix Unified Storage enhancements that makes it a solution for high-performance, enterprise AI workloads are as follows:

• NVIDIA-Certified Storage: Nutanix Unified Storage is now certified as a NVIDIA-Certified Storage solution. The certification confirms Nutanix Unified Storage meets the rigorous performance and scalability requirements of enterprise agentic AI workloads. Nutanix Unified Storage can support near line-speed performance per node. 
• NVIDIA GPU-Direct Storage: Modern AI workloads demand high-speed data ingestion and retrieval to maximize GPU efficiency. Nutanix Unified Storage supports NVIDIA GPU-Direct Storage, enabling direct data transfers between storage and GPUs, reducing CPU bottlenecks and delivering low-latency, high-throughput AI data access.
• Leader in MLPerf Storage Benchmark: Nutanix Unified Storage has demonstrated industry-leading performance in the MLPerf Storage Benchmark, an independent AI benchmark suite. In one of the benchmark tests, Nutanix Unified Storage successfully served over 1,000 simulated NVIDIA H100 GPUs for an image classification workload (ResNet-50) outperforming other competing AI storage solutions.
• Consistent Hybrid Cloud Performance: As a software-defined solution, Nutanix Unified Storage can be deployed on-premises, at the edge or in the public cloud. Irrespective of where it is deployed, Nutanix Unified Storage can scale linearly and deliver consistent performance. Interestingly, for the MLPerf Storage Benchmark, some of the leading performance numbers for Nutanix Unified Storage were obtained in the public cloud where compute and storage resources can be quickly spun up as needed.

Data Management and Security: Key to Scaling AI Workloads
As enterprises scale AI adoption, managing large volumes of unstructured data across diverse environments becomes critical. While performance and scalability are essential, also having secure, efficient, and intelligent data management is the key to AI success.

Nutanix Unified Storage provides a single platform that can be deployed on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud, and is designed to provide data management in every stage of the AI lifecycle. With built-in replication, migration, and a global namespace, it simplifies data mobility and accessibility across environments. The Nutanix Central management platform further enhances management by offering a single SaaS-based interface to oversee all of an organization’s Nutanix Unified Storage deployments globally.

For advanced data security, governance, and lifecycle management, Data Lens provides intelligent data security and compliance for unstructured data on Nutanix Unified Storage and AWS S3. Key capabilities include:

• End-to-end ransomware resilience with anomaly detection, proactive blocking, and one-click recovery.
• Comprehensive data governance with auditing, risk analysis, and usage insights.
• Data lifecycle management with policy-based tiering and suggestions for appropriate tier selection

By integrating intelligent data management, protection, and governance, Nutanix Unified Storage helps ensure that AI workloads remain scalable, secure, and efficient—wherever data resides.

Nutanix Cloud Platform: Full Stack AI Solution
Nutanix Unified Storage is an integral part of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, which also includes the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, Nutanix Enterprise AI, Nutanix Central and Nutanix Cloud Manager solutions. The Nutanix Cloud Platform is a comprehensive hybrid cloud infrastructure solution designed to unify and streamline IT operations across on-premises, edge, and public cloud environments. The solution combines advanced high-performance enterprise storage, cloud data services, automation, and integrations, enabling organizations to securely build, manage, and optimize their AI infrastructure efficiently, all managed through a unified interface.

Conclusion: Nutanix Scales Agentic AI with NVIDIA
As Agentic AI transforms industries, Nutanix Cloud Platform with Nutanix Unified Storage powered by NVIDIA AI Data Platform innovations equip enterprises with a new class of AI infrastructure, for unlocking data into near real-time business insights. This allows organizations to deploy a full-stack agentic AI solution that accelerates innovation, enhances productivity, and drives tangible business value.

Are you ready to deploy Agentic AI in your enterprise? Learn more about how Nutanix Cloud Platform with Nutanix Unified Storage can empower your AI journey by visiting Nutanix AI Solutions or taking a hands-on test drive at Nutanix Test Drive.