Nutanix has acquired Ryax to expand its AI cloud platform capabilities.

Nutanix, a hybrid cloud and AI platform company, has announced its acquisition of Ryax Technologies, a France-based AI-driven compute orchestration and management platform. The acquisition accelerates Nutanix's strategy to help enterprises build, run, and govern agentic AI anywhere by integrating Ryax's advanced GPU utilization and smart scheduling capabilities into Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) and Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI).

The explosive growth of agentic AI is driving demand for efficient inference workloads across enterprises. However, GPU shortages and fragmented infrastructure have forced many organizations to spread compute across private data centers, hyperscalers, and neoclouds to secure capacity. To make these deployments economically viable, enterprises need a unified hybrid cloud operating model that abstracts complexity, simplifies operations, and maximizes hardware efficiency.

Enterprises also struggle to transition AI projects from experimentation to production due to significant infrastructure integration and manual configuration. The Ryax platform is designed to automate underlying infrastructure, data, hardware, and code management, enabling faster, more cost-effective, and more reliable AI deployment.

Nutanix is targeting two critical capabilities through Ryax: Intelligent Resource Optimization, which helps customers maximize use of available computing resources like GPUs and CPUs to improve performance and reduce waste; and AI-Aware Smart Scheduling, which automatically places AI workloads on cost-effective hardware to maximize performance and budget. Together, these capabilities help enterprises improve infrastructure efficiency, manage costs, and optimize hardware utilization.

"The Ryax platform was built to give enterprises seamless execution across hybrid infrastructure, handling the backend complexity so teams can deploy, scale and manage AI workflows from day one," said Andry Razafinjatovo, CEO of Ryax Technologies. "By combining our technology and team with Nutanix and its hybrid cloud platform, we will further empower organizations to accelerate their agentic AI initiatives seamlessly, wherever their infrastructure lives."

"Agentic AI requires a flexible architecture, simple operations and the ability to use infrastructure far more efficiently," said Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO of Nutanix. "Our acquisition of Ryax directly addresses the challenges enterprises face with agentic AI infrastructure management. This acquisition marks an exciting milestone in our commitment to simplifying enterprise AI at scale. We are thrilled to welcome the Ryax team to Nutanix as we continue to deliver on our promise to help customers safely run AI, applications and data anywhere."

Nutanix plans to integrate the Ryax platform into future releases of NKP and NAI. The Ryax team will join Nutanix in France and continue developing the technology. The financial impact of the acquisition is not material to Nutanix.