Nutanix expands Cloud Platform for sovereignty-aligned deployments

Nutanix announced updates to the Nutanix Cloud Platform that provided customers with capabilities to maintain security, control, and resilience across distributed environments.

The company said organizations expanding across multiple regions and cloud environments faced growing complexity in meeting sovereignty and business continuity expectations while retaining operational flexibility and avoiding dependence on a single cloud vendor ecosystem.

New capabilities in the Nutanix Cloud Platform included orchestrated lifecycle management for multiple dark‑site environments and on‑premises deployment options for governance and control planes, and Nutanix Central was made available to run in customer‑controlled on‑prem environments. Nutanix Data Lens was described as planned to run in customer‑controlled on‑prem environments in the near term.

The announcements also covered cloud availability and compliance attestations: Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Google Cloud became generally available in 17 regions, NC2 expanded to additional Azure and AWS regions in the United States and to OVHcloud in Europe, and the Nutanix Government Cloud (G-Cloud) Clusters (GC2) on AWS was listed as available. NC2 on Azure and AWS completed a System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) Type 2 audit and renewed ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701, and 22301 certifications, and NC2 on Azure received Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Star Level 2 certification for 2025.

“As sovereign cloud architectures become a defining priority for organizations, we’re introducing several enhancements to the Nutanix Cloud Platform that help customers meet these needs without giving up the advantages of a distributed cloud infrastructure,” said Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President of Product Management at Nutanix.

Nutanix said certain products and features, including Nutanix Data Lens’ ability to run on customer‑controlled on‑prem environments, the inclusion of a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140‑3–validated and STIG‑compliant Ubuntu Pro image option with NKP, and NKP integration with Prism Central, remained in varying stages of development and would be offered on a when‑and‑if‑available basis.