Nerdio announced a strategic technology alliance with Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, to aid organizations in their modernization efforts. Nerdio is collaborating with Nutanix to extend Nerdio Manager desktop orchestration and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) management capabilities for hybrid environments to the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution. This will provide a new path for organizations to seamlessly modernize legacy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments and deploy Azure Virtual Desktop no matter where they are on their cloud journey, whether on-premises or in the cloud.

As part of Nerdio?s strategic technology alliance with Nutanix, Nerdio has prioritized the development of NCP as the first Azure Virtual Desktop for hybrid environment to integrate into Nerdio Manager and announced a private preview of Nerdio Manager?s desktop orchestration and management capabilities at Nutanix .NEXT 2026. This announcement brings an optimal administrative experience to a hybrid model that best supports performance-oriented users and empowers organizations to take proactive steps to modernize their legacy VDI solutions. Leveraging Nerdio Manager with NCP, organizations have an easier migration path.

They can move to Azure Virtual Desktop with Nerdio Manager, then seamlessly manage their desktop images on Nutanix AHV while using Nerdio Manager and Azure Virtual Desktop to modernize their VDI environments. Now that Nerdio Manager has expanded its desktop orchestration capabilities to Nutanix alongside existing Microsoft Azure and Azure Local resources, customers gain true infrastructure flexibility without changing their management or automation models. This allows organizations to modernize at their own pace?whether staying on-premises, moving fully to Azure, or running hybrid?while maintaining consistent operations, governance, and cost control across environments.