Nutanix unveils partnerships, partner program to expand and ease AI adoption

California-based cloud software company Nutanix has unveiled artificial intelligence (AI)-related partnerships and a partner program at its .Next conference in Barcelona.

First up, GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 delivers new functionality including integrations with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices and Hugging Face’s large language models library.

Customers will be able to build scalable, secure, high-performance generative AI (GenAI) applications across the enterprise and at the edge, Nutanix said.

This would provide a fast-track to help organisations “mainstream” GenAI beyond the public cloud.

“We saw a great response to our original launch of Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box, validating the needs of enterprise customers for on-premises software solutions that simplify the deployment and management of AI models and inference endpoints,” said Thomas Cornely, SVP of product management at Nutanix.

“Enterprise is the new frontier for GenAI and we’re excited to work with our fast growing ecosystem of partners to make it as simple as possible to run GenAI applications on premises at scale while maintaining control on privacy and cost.”

The vendor also launched a new Nutanix AI partner program, aiming to bring together leading AI solutions and services partners to support customers looking to run, manage and secure GenAI applications on top of Nutanix Cloud Platform and GPT-in-a-Box.

“Enterprises are looking to simplify GenAI adoption, and Nutanix enables customers to move to production more easily while maintaining control, privacy, and cost,” said Tarkan Maner, chief commercial officer at Nutanix.

“This collaboration will add to this value by making it even easier for customers to leverage NVIDIA’s latest innovation with NIM.”

Across every industry, enterprises were working to efficiently integrate AI into the cloud and data platforms, said Manuvir Das, vice president of enterprise computing at NVIDIA.

“The integration of NVIDIA NIM into Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box gives enterprises an AI-ready solution for rapidly deploying optimised models in production,” he said.

Finally, an expanded partnership with EnterpriseDB aims to accelerate PostgreSQL adoption to support AI applications.

The combined solution brings together Nutanix Database Service’s developer self-service and database automation with EnterpriseDB’s performance, high availability, security and Oracle compatibility.

The partnership aims to empower joint customers to accelerate their adoption of PostgreSQL to support both new cloud-native applications and existing enterprise applications at scale in on-premises datacentres and public clouds.

EnterpriseDB can also help expand functionality beyond transactional workloads to support analytics and AI-infused applications in the future.

“Our collaboration with EnterpriseDB allows customers to deploy PostgreSQL in the most demanding enterprise environments while simultaneously increasing productivity for developers building applications on PostgreSQL,” said Tarkan Maner, chief commercial officer at Nutanix.

The expanded partnership promised a “seamless” path to migration from legacy systems and provided a competitive edge for the AI generation of applications with support for transactional, analytical and AI workloads, said Kevin Dallas, chief executive at EnterpriseDB.

“EDB’s future data and AI platform will catapult PostgreSQL into the world of data analytics and AI, providing businesses with a PostgreSQL-enabled, comprehensive data ecosystem,” he added.