Nutanix has introduced its Enterprise AI solution, designed to deliver a consistent hybrid multicloud operating model for accelerated AI workloads. This offering empowers organizations to leverage their data and AI models in secure environments of their choice, whether on-premises, in public clouds, or at the edge, while maximizing return on investment (ROI). By incorporating NVIDIA’s Neural Inference Microservices (NIM) for optimal performance of foundational AI models, Nutanix Enterprise AI simplifies the deployment, operation, and scaling of inference endpoints for large language models (LLMs), enabling organizations to implement generative AI (GenAI) applications within minutes instead of the traditional days or weeks.
GenAI workloads are inherently hybrid, with application development often starting in public clouds, model fine-tuning occurring on private data on-premises, and inferencing executed close to the business logic, which might be at the edge, on-premises, or in cloud environments. This distributed nature of GenAI workflows introduces challenges related to complexity, data privacy, security, and cost management. Nutanix Enterprise AI addresses these challenges by providing a unified multicloud operating model and a seamless way to securely deploy, run, and scale LLMs using NVIDIA NIM-optimized inference microservices as well as open foundational models from platforms like Hugging Face. This allows customers to establish enterprise GenAI infrastructure with robust security, operational resiliency, and simplified management for critical business applications, whether on-premises or via cloud platforms such as AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Managed Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
One of the standout features of Nutanix Enterprise AI is its transparent and predictable pricing model. Unlike traditional usage-based or token-based pricing schemes, Nutanix offers pricing based on infrastructure resources, enabling organizations to manage costs effectively while reaping the benefits of secure and scalable GenAI solutions. This makes Nutanix Enterprise AI a cost-effective choice for organizations looking to optimize ROI on their GenAI investments.
Nutanix Enterprise AI is a core component of the company’s GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 solution. This comprehensive package includes Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, and Nutanix Unified Storage, along with a suite of services for configuration and sizing tailored to on-premises training and inferencing needs. For organizations preferring public cloud deployments, Nutanix Enterprise AI supports any Kubernetes environment while maintaining operational consistency with on-premises deployments.
Thomas Cornely, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Nutanix, emphasized the flexibility and simplicity of Nutanix Enterprise AI. He highlighted its ability to securely run GenAI applications on-premises or in public clouds while offering a predictable cost model. Cornely underscored that the platform’s compatibility with any Kubernetes environment allows businesses to run AI applications in secure locations without compromising performance or budget.
The solution integrates seamlessly with NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite, including NVIDIA NIM. This integration ensures high-performance, secure deployment of AI model inferencing and establishes Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box as an NVIDIA-Certified System, guaranteeing reliability and robust performance. Justin Boitano, Vice President of Enterprise AI at NVIDIA, noted that the partnership enables a consistent multicloud model with secure APIs, helping organizations deploy AI solutions across diverse environments with the necessary performance and security for business-critical applications.
Nutanix Enterprise AI provides significant benefits to organizations adopting GenAI. It addresses AI skill shortages by simplifying operations, allowing IT administrators to manage AI workloads efficiently. Built-in features enable data scientists and developers to quickly adapt to the latest models and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing resources. The platform eliminates barriers to building AI-ready infrastructure by offering a simple, UI-driven workflow for deploying and testing LLM inference endpoints within minutes. Customers can leverage NVIDIA NIM microservices across environments, ensuring optimal model performance both in cloud and on-premises deployments.
Privacy and security are prioritized within Nutanix Enterprise AI. Organizations retain full control over their compute resources, ensuring that data and models remain secure. The platform includes an intuitive dashboard for observability, troubleshooting, and resource management, along with role-based access controls (RBAC) to safeguard LLM accessibility. For highly secure environments, Nutanix Enterprise AI can operate in air-gapped or dark-site configurations, providing hardened security for sensitive applications.
Additionally, Nutanix Enterprise AI brings the enterprise-grade resiliency, security, and operational efficiency of Nutanix Cloud Platform to GenAI workloads. This ensures that customers running critical business applications can extend the same level of infrastructure robustness to their AI initiatives.
The use cases for Nutanix Enterprise AI are extensive and transformative. Organizations can enhance customer experiences by analyzing feedback and documents, accelerate content and code creation through AI-driven co-pilots and intelligent document processing, and fine-tune models with domain-specific data for specialized applications. Furthermore, the platform bolsters security with AI-powered fraud detection, threat analysis, alert enrichment, and automated policy creation. It also improves analytics capabilities by applying fine-tuned models to private datasets, driving insights and operational efficiencies.
Nutanix Enterprise AI represents a significant leap forward for organizations seeking to harness the power of generative AI while simplifying complexity, safeguarding data, and optimizing costs. By offering a robust, predictable, and secure platform, Nutanix is helping businesses navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape with confidence.