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Nutanix Recognized in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management for Second Consecutive Year

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News Summary

  • Nutanix is recognized in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management for the second year in a row.
  • Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) is a full-scale enterprise platform designed to simplify Kubernetes operations across a wide range of environments.
  • NKP can run independently or as part of Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), supporting Kubernetes across virtualized and bare-metal infrastructure, public cloud, edge, and air-gapped environments.

Why it Matters

  • Enterprises are looking to reduce operational complexity and make it easier for platform teams to manage applications at scale. NKP helps standardize operations, improve efficiency, and provide greater consistency across modern application environments. NKP is also a Cloud Native Computing Foundation certified Kubernetes AI conformant platform, with built-in extensions for enterprises to safely build and run agentic AI anywhere. 

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a hybrid cloud leader and AI platform company, today announced it has been recognized in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management. This marks the second consecutive year Nutanix has been recognized as a Challenger in this Magic Quadrant, following the 2024 launch of NKP.

NKP can operate independently or as part of NCP, enabling Kubernetes across virtualized and bare-metal infrastructure, public cloud, edge, and air-gapped environments. It helps organizations simplify the management of cloud native applications across distributed, stateful, and disconnected environments while providing a unified infrastructure foundation for traditional, modern and AI workloads. 

“As organizations modernize their applications and embrace AI, they need infrastructure that gives them greater simplicity and flexibility without creating new silos,” said Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix. “We believe our recognition for the second consecutive year reflects the progress we’ve made with NKP, and our broader approach to helping customers run traditional, cloud native and AI workloads on a unified platform.” 

Nutanix continues to expand its cloud native capabilities with the introduction of NKP Metal, extending NKP to provide unparalleled simplicity to Kubernetes deployments directly on bare-metal infrastructure. NKP Metal is designed to bring automated deployment, lifecycle management and enterprise data services to physical infrastructure, giving organizations greater flexibility to run modern and AI workloads across virtualized and bare-metal environments.

Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Container Management, Dennis Smith, Tony Iams, Wataru Katsurashima, Lucas Albuquerque, Carolin Zhou, 2 September 2026

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About Nutanix

Nutanix is a hybrid cloud leader and AI platform company, offering organizations a unified infrastructure software platform to safely run applications, data, and AI anywhere. Trusted by customers worldwide, Nutanix empowers more than 50% of the Global 2000 to innovate faster with AI, while modernizing infrastructure, simplifying operations, and controlling costs. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on social media.

©2026 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo and all Nutanix product and service names mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nutanix, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Kubernetes is a registered trademark of The Linux Foundation in the United States and other countries. All other brand names mentioned are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). 

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