Network giant Cisco partners with Nutanix to offer multicloud deployment solutions
Cisco, the leader in enterprise networking and security, and Nutanix Inc, leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, announced a global strategic partnership to accelerate hybrid multi-cloud deployments by offering the industry’s most complete hyper-converged solution for IT modernisation and business transformation.
Cisco is combining its compute and networking infrastructure with Nutanix’s cloud platform. The companies will sell the resulting solution to organizations that need help simplifying their operations and speeding up digital transformation, and they’ll do so largely through resellers, managed service providers and other channel experts.
According to Jeremy Foster, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Compute, the new solution will span virtual compute, networking, and storage. It aims to function across both customer data centers and public clouds.
“Customers are asking for solutions that are simple, sustainable and future-ready,” said Foster. “This partnership answers with a complete solution spanning virtual compute, networking and storage across customer data centers and public clouds.”
“This partnership answers with a complete solution spanning virtual compute, networking and storage across customer data centers and public clouds. By combining Cisco’s award-winning SaaS-managed compute portfolio with Nutanix’s market-proven cloud platform software, we can help customers develop a balanced approach to power modern workloads on-prem and in the cloud,” said Foster.
The Nutanix Cloud Platform provides a consistent cloud operating model with a single platform for running applications and data across data centers, edges and public clouds. To best support application deployments, from mission-critical workloads to AI-driven innovation, performance and capacity scale linearly, resilience is delivered from the ground up with self-healing nodes, and persistent storage is natively integrated.
Nutanix chief commercial officer Tarkan Maner said: “This partnership will deliver an expanded market opportunity for both organisations as they tackle the challenges of standardising, simplifying, and securing environments across the data centre, in public cloud and the edge.”
Cisco and Nutanix plan to enable their global sales teams and partners to offer the integrated solution, with the Cisco team leading the go-to-market efforts. The availability of the solution is expected within the next three months.
