Mirantis Joins NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready Initiative as Founding ISV Partner, Bringing a Validated “Metal-to-Model” Stack to NVIDIA Cloud Partners

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CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 16, 2026--

Mirantis, delivering Kubernetes-native infrastructure for AI, today announced it has been accepted to the NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready Initiative as a founding independent software vendor (ISV) partner. The initiative recognizes validated software platforms that enable NVIDIA Cloud Partners (NCPs) to accelerate the deployment of scalable AI cloud infrastructure.

For neoclouds and those building AI infrastructure, Mirantis k0rdent AI is turnkey for automated, multi-tenant AI clouds with significantly improved utilization and economics which works across bare metal, Kubernetes, virtual machines (VMs), and managed AI services.

“With k0rdent AI, NCPs can move from manual operations to multi-tenant, self-service platforms that unlock the economic potential of GPU infrastructure,” said Shaun O’Meara, chief technology officer at Mirantis. “Operators are assured day-zero readiness with NVIDIA certified models. Using k0rdent AI, providers can simply plug in NVIDIA certified hardware, and the platform takes care of the rest.”

k0rdent AI leverages NVIDIA NCX Infra Controller, an open-source technology battle-tested inside NVIDIA to manage large-scale GPU fleets. k0rdent AI provides a unified control plane that orchestrates the entire stack across the full NVIDIA reference architecture portfolio – from NVIDIA Ampere, NVIDIA Hopper, and NVIDIABlackwell architectures to NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, NVIDIA NVLink scale-up networking, and NVIDIA DGX, NVIDIA HGX, and NVIDIA MGX platforms.

Across the industry, NCP providers and enterprise AI factories face mounting pressure to turn GPU infrastructure into sustainable revenue streams. While demand for AI services continues to surge (with Gartner projecting worldwide AI spending to total $2.5 trillion in 2026 ), many deployments remain constrained by manual provisioning, single-tenant architecture, and fragmented tooling.

“AI infrastructure service providers need to maximize utilization and operational efficiency,” said Warren Barkley, vice president of product management, NVIDIA. "Our collaboration with Mirantis helps neoclouds deploy validated AI infrastructure faster, pairing ISV validation with NVIDIA NCX Infra Controller lifecycle automation to deliver consistent performance, operational efficiency, and real cloud differentiation at scale."

Mirantis offers the only open, composable infrastructure platform in the founding ISV group, which is purpose-built for the complete neocloud lifecycle — from bare metal through multi-tenant AI services delivery.

Learn More at NVIDIA GTC 2026

Mirantis will showcase how neocloud providers can evolve from bare metal infrastructure to fully-automated AI cloud services at NVIDIA GTC 2026. Visit Mirantis booth 102 for live demos of the k0rdent AI and NVIDIA BMM integration. For more information, read the blog post, Plug In, Deliver AI: Mirantis k0rdent AI Eliminates Infrastructure Complexity and visit the Mirantis GTC resources page.

About Mirantis

Mirantis delivers the fastest path to profitable, scalable GPU cloud infrastructure for neoclouds and enterprise AI factories, with full-stack AI infrastructure technology that removes complexity and streamlines operations across the AI lifecycle, from Metal-to-Model. Through k0rdent AI and strategic partnerships, Mirantis enables organizations to transform GPU cloud economics with production-grade multi-tenancy, intelligent workload orchestration, and automated operations that maximize utilization and profitability. With more than 20 years delivering mission-critical open source cloud solutions, Mirantis provides the end-to-end automation, enterprise security and governance, and deep expertise in Kubernetes and GPU orchestration that organizations need to reduce time to market and efficiently scale cloud native, virtualized, and GPU-powered applications across any environment—on-premises, public cloud, hybrid, or edge.

Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises and service providers, including Adobe, Ericsson, Inmarsat, MetLife, PayPal, and Société Générale. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.

Mirantis is a registered trademark of Mirantis, Inc. Metal-to-Model is a trademark of Mirantis, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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