Nutanix buys Ryax to boost hybrid AI workload orchestration

Nutanix has acquired French compute orchestration company Ryax Technologies, bringing Ryax's software into its artificial intelligence product strategy.

It plans to integrate Ryax's GPU utilisation and workload scheduling technology into Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and Nutanix Enterprise AI, which are aimed at organisations running applications and AI systems across mixed infrastructure.

The acquisition reflects growing pressure on companies running AI workloads as demand for graphics processors outpaces supply and infrastructure estates become more fragmented. Many businesses now spread computing tasks across private data centres, large public cloud providers and newer specialist cloud operators to secure access to hardware.

That distribution can create operational complexity, particularly for companies moving AI work from testing into production. Ryax's software is designed to automate infrastructure, data, hardware and code management so users can deploy workflows across different environments without building custom integrations for each one.

Nutanix also outlined two capabilities it wants to add to its software stack through the deal: resource optimisation across GPUs and CPUs, and workload scheduling that places AI tasks on hardware offering the best balance of cost and performance.

Hybrid focus

Ryax's platform is designed to let organisations create a workflow once and run it across cloud, data centre, edge and high-performance computing environments. That fits Nutanix's broader push to position itself as a software provider for hybrid and multi-environment operations.

For enterprise customers, the appeal is partly economic. AI inference workloads can be expensive to run, and organisations are under pressure to get more from scarce and costly GPU resources while keeping model deployment manageable across different locations.

The Ryax team will join Nutanix in France, and the company said the acquisition will not have a material financial impact.

No purchase price was disclosed. The lack of a material financial impact suggests the transaction is relatively small for Nutanix, which has been expanding its AI offering as corporate technology buyers look for ways to run AI applications alongside existing data and software systems.

AI operations

The deal comes as infrastructure suppliers try to solve a practical problem in enterprise AI: how to manage where workloads run when compute availability, cost and policy requirements vary between environments. Businesses experimenting with agentic AI and inference services often find that operational issues, rather than model development itself, slow deployment.

Ryax has focused on orchestration and management software that sits above underlying infrastructure and helps determine where jobs should run. In practice, that means directing workloads to available resources across a range of computing environments rather than tying execution to a single cloud or data centre.

Nutanix plans to fold that logic into its own platform software in future releases of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and Nutanix Enterprise AI.

Suppliers across the industry have increasingly targeted this layer of the market as AI use moves beyond pilot projects. Companies want more predictable control over cost, governance and infrastructure use, especially when they rely on a mix of owned hardware and rented capacity.

Ryax Chief Executive Officer Andry Razafinjatovo said the company had built its platform for distributed enterprise environments. “The Ryax platform was built to give enterprises seamless execution across hybrid infrastructure, like private data centres, hyperscalers and neoclouds, handling the backend complexity so teams can deploy, scale and manage AI workflows from day one,” Razafinjatovo said.

He added: “By combining our technology and talented team with Nutanix and its hybrid cloud platform, we will further empower organisations to accelerate their agentic AI initiatives seamlessly, wherever their infrastructure lives.”

Nutanix Chief Executive Officer Rajiv Ramaswami linked the acquisition to customer demand for simpler AI infrastructure management. “Agentic AI requires a flexible architecture, simple operations and the ability to use infrastructure far more efficiently,” Ramaswami said.

He added: “Our acquisition of Ryax helps to directly answer the challenges enterprises face today with agentic AI infrastructure management. The acquisition marks an exciting milestone in our commitment to simplifying enterprise AI at scale. We are thrilled to welcome the talented Ryax team to Nutanix as we continue to deliver on our promise to help customers safely run AI, applications and data anywhere.”