A Strategic Partnership Launched in 2024, Available in 2025
In August 2024, Dell Technologies and Nutanix announced the expansion of their partnership with the introduction of Dell PowerFlex with Nutanix Cloud Platform. This innovative solution combines the scalable storage power of Dell PowerFlex with Nutanix software defined platform, delivering a unified infrastructure designed for critical IT environments.
After several months of development and testing, the solution reached general availability in April-May 2025, marking a significant milestone for both companies and their customers.
Why This Collaboration Matters
This alliance addresses a crucial need for modern enterprises: to have an infrastructure that is simultaneously high-performing, flexible, and easy to manage-capable of supporting both virtualized and bare-metal workloads while enabling IT modernization.
Dell PowerFlex offers independent scalability of storage and compute resources, while Nutanix Cloud Platform, with its integrated AHV hypervisor, provides automated management, enhanced security, and seamless integration with hybrid and multicloud environments.
Key Benefits of Dell PowerFlex with Nutanix Cloud Platform
- Simplified Scalability and Consolidation: The platform enables consolidation of diverse workloads onto a single system, reducing silos and operational costs while dynamically adjusting resources to meet business demands.
- Unified and Automated Management: Integration of PowerFlex Manager and Nutanix Prism Central streamlines storage, compute, and hardware lifecycle management by automating updates and maintenance, freeing IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives.
- Performance and Resilience for Critical Environments: The solution ensures high availability, advanced data protection, and built-in disaster recovery, meeting the stringent requirements of sectors.
- Hypervisor Flexibility: Full support for Nutanix AHV gives enterprises the freedom to choose the hypervisor that best fits their needs, simplifying workload management and migration.
A Future-Ready Vision
This collaboration exemplifies Dell and Nutanix’s commitment to delivering software-defined infrastructure (SDI) that simplifies the growing complexity of hybrid and multicloud IT environments. It equips organizations to meet future challenges in agility, security, and operational efficiency.
In summary, the partnership launched in 2024 between Dell Technologies and Nutanix, with the commercial availability of Dell PowerFlex with Nutanix Cloud Platform in 2025, offers organizations a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-manage solution to modernize their critical IT infrastructures.
