Pure Storage has struck channel combo deals with both Nutanix and Cisco.
With Pure Storage, Nutanix aims to provide a “deeply integrated” solution to allow customers to “seamlessly deploy” and manage virtual workloads on a “scalable and modern” storage system.
It may also help Nutanix take some business from VMware too. Analyst house Gartner predicts that by 2028, “cost concerns” will drive 70% of enterprise-scale VMware customers to migrate 50% of their virtual workloads. Separate research from backup and data resilience player Veeam, shows 56% of companies expect to decrease their use of VMware software, following licensing changes and more expensive software bundles being sold by new owner Broadcom.
With the new collaboration, the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution, powered by the Nutanix AHV hypervisor along with Nutanix Flow virtual networking and security, will integrate with Pure Storage FlashArray over NVMe/TCP, to deliver a customer experience “uniquely designed for high-demand data workloads, including AI”, it is promised.
“I’m hearing more than ever that organisations of all shapes and sizes have a growing need for efficient, flexible, and high-performance solutions that can also scale to support their most critical, data-intensive applications,” said Maciej Kranz, general manager, enterprise at Pure Storage. “With this easy-to-manage solution, our joint customers will have the power of a virtual infrastructure that’s truly built for change.”
The solution will be supported by major server hardware partners that currently support Pure Storage FlashArray, including Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro.
Additionally, Cisco and Pure Storage are expanding their partnership of more than 60 FlashStack validated designs to include Nutanix in the portfolio, further simplifying full-stack delivery.
“The future of infrastructure is defined by flexibility,” said Jeremy Foster, SVP and general manager, Cisco Compute. “That’s exactly what this next evolution of FlashStack delivers. With nearly a decade of joint innovation with Pure Storage, and an expanded partnership and co-development roadmap with Nutanix, we’re offering a proven platform backed by Cisco validated designs, a world-class joint support model, and deep integration with Cisco Intersight – providing unified visibility across both Pure Storage and Nutanix clusters, for a more complete view of the operating environment.”
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