Nutanix is hiring at least dozens of new employees as it builds a new agentic AI center in Vancouver, British Columbia, along with forming a new security integration partnership with Palo Alto Networks.
Nutanix is looking at potentially hiring hundreds of new positions in Vancouver, British Columbia, as it builds out a new agentic AI center in the region, while also forming a new AI security partnership with Palo Alto Networks, as customer demand for Nutanix offerings continues.
Ehtan Simmons, CEO of solution provider PTP, said Nutanix building a new AI center focused on cloud computing and agentic AI innovation is the right move as adoption for Nutanix offerings continues to rise.
“We’re just seeing a ton of Nutanix Kubernetes adoption,” said Simmons, CEO of the Norwood, Mass.-based Nutanix partner.
“There’s a lot of activity in the marketplace. From an industry standpoint, we’re seeing a lot of activity there as people continue to hedge their bets against Broadcom-VMware, or try to distance themselves from Broadcom,” he said.
San Jose, Calif.-based Nutanix currently has approximately 31,000 customers as of second-quarter 2026, compared with around 27,800 during the same quarter one year ago.
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Nutanix’s planned Agentic AI hub in Vancouver will host engineering teams working across hybrid cloud management, software-defined networking and Nutanix’s agentic AI infrastructure platform for enterprise AI workloads.
“Vancouver is where we are building our center of excellence for Nutanix Agentic AI, and we are making a long-term commitment to the region and to the talent here,” Anurag Narula, vice president of engineering and site executive sponsor for Nutanix, said in an email to CRN.
Nutanix generated $2.36 billion in annual recurring revenue in the second quarter of 2026, representing a 16 percent increase year over year.
New Nutanix Tech Jobs And Internships
As Nutanix begins to build its new Agentic AI hub, executives working on the Nutanix Vancouver site were selected to drive product ownership and influence road map decisions from day one, according to Nutanix.
The company has already posted dozens of job openings in Vancouver, including cloud and software engineers, product managers and other technical staff. Nutanix said it could potentially hire hundreds of new employees in the area over time.
Nutanix is also initiating partnerships with several Canadian universities—including the University of British Columbia, University of Waterloo and Simon Fraser University—with the goal of establishing co-op and internship opportunities for students in computer science and engineering programs.
Nutanix And Palo Alto Networks: New Integration For AI Security
This month, Nutanix also formed a new partnership with cybersecurity all-star Palo Alo Networks for AI.
The two companies have integrated the Nutanix Enterprise AI platform with Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS advanced security capabilities focused on AI model security, simplified compliance and governance, end-to-end AI security posture and cost and resource efficiency.
The Nutanix Enterprise AI platform provides a scalable foundation for AI life-cycle management—from data preparation and model fine-tuning to deployment and management. By integrating Palo Alto Networks’ AI security tools directly into Nutanix’s workflow, the integration enables security checks to become an intrinsic part of the AIOps pipeline, the companies said.
The security partnership comes as Nutanix reports near-record gross margins of over 88 percent, while the company currently has $191 million in free cash flow.
With Nutanix’s new AI hub and Palo Alo Networks partnership, Simmons said Nutanix continues to “position themselves well” in customer conversations and is “providing a clear path” toward Nutanix migrations and successful AI use cases.
“I like what Nutanix is doing right now,” PTP’s CEO said.
“It’s pretty well defined as far as how they’re going to help the customer move from their current Broadcom-VMware subscriptions to Kubernetes and a path forward,” he said. “Customers are looking for help in that motion and Nutanix is able to define a path really well in how to do that.”
Nutanix is set to report the results of its current third fiscal quarter on May 27.
