Nutanix expands Azure virtual desktop flexibility across hybrid cloud environments

As organisations continue to embrace hybrid work models, the need for flexible, secure, and high-performance virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has never been greater. At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Nutanix announced that its Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop in hybrid environments, allowing enterprises to run Azure Virtual Desktop on-premises using the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, while still leveraging Microsoft’s cloud-based management and control capabilities.

This move provides IT teams with a new level of deployment freedom. Rather than being tied exclusively to the public cloud, organisations can now balance performance, compliance, and cost by keeping sensitive workloads on-premises while still connecting seamlessly to Azure for brokering, orchestration, and scalability.

For highly regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and government, where data residency, sovereignty, and low-latency access are critical, this hybrid model delivers significant value. Through Azure Arc–enabled servers, customers can securely connect on-premises virtual desktops running on ...