Cisco and Nutanix have announced a global strategic partnership to accelerate hybrid multi-cloud deployments through the channel.
IT organisations continue to face significant operational hurdles, and “urgent” sustainability and security concerns as a result of increasing multi-cloud complexity, say the partners.
This new partnership answers these challenges by “simplifying and accelerating the delivery of infrastructure and applications”, at a global scale, through “best-in-class” cloud operating models, “unparalleled flexibility”, and automated resiliency with customer support.
“Customers are asking for solutions that are simple, sustainable, and future-ready,” said Jeremy Foster, senior vice president and general manager for Cisco Compute. “This partnership answers with a complete solution spanning virtual compute, networking and storage across customer data centres and public clouds.”
The offering combines Cisco’s SaaS-managed compute portfolio with Nutanix’s cloud platform software.
“As organisations look to keep up with the pace of innovation, they need an integrated hardware and software platform to support application deployment anywhere,” said Tarkan Maner (pictured), chief commercial officer at Nutanix. “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.”
The new offering will be “sold by Cisco using its extensive go-to-market reach”, said the partners.
“Cisco and Nutanix will enable their global sales teams and partners worldwide to offer an exciting new solution combining best-in-class technologies and collaborative go-to-market support, driven by the Cisco team.”
Solution availability is expected “in the next 90 days”.
