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Global strategic partnership aims to accelerate customers ’ hybrid multicloud adoption , foster innovation and provide seamless customer experience .

The partnership arises out of a recognition that IT organisations continue to face significant operational hurdles and urgent sustainability and security concerns because of increasing multicloud complexity .

Challenges that Cisco and Nutanix say can be met 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 industry-leading customer support .

" Customers are asking for solutions that are simple , sustainable , and future-ready , this partnership answers with a complete solution spanning virtual compute , networking and storage across customer data centres and public clouds ,” said Jeremy Foster , Senior Vice President and General Manager , Cisco Compute .

“ By combining Cisco ' s award-winning SaaSmanaged compute portfolio with Nutanix ' s market-proven cloud platform software , we can help customers develop a balanced approach to power modern workloads onprem and in the cloud ,” he said .

The new offering integrates Cisco ' s SaaS-managed compute and networking infrastructure ( Cisco Unified Computing System with Cisco Intersight ) with the Nutanix Cloud Platform ( Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure , Nutanix Cloud Manager , Nutanix Unified Storage , and Nutanix Desktop Services ) and will be sold by Cisco using its extensive go-tomarket reach .

Customers are said to benefit from a fully integrated and validated solution that is sold , built , managed and supported holistically for a seamless end-toend experience .

The solution will offer flexible deployment options with support for Cisco UCS rack and blade servers , including initial support for C-Series Servers and planned , future support for UCS X-Series – winner of the 2023 SEAL Sustainable Product of the Year Award and CRN ' s 2023 Tech Innovator Award .

It will integrate advanced Cisco servers ( UCS ), networking and security ( ACI ), and management ( UCS Manager , Intersight ) with the Nutanix Cloud Platform software .

The Nutanix Cloud Platform pitches a consistent cloud operating model with a single platform for running applications and data across data centres , 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 .

" 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 , Chief Commercial Officer , 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 ."

Cisco and Nutanix are now enabling their global sales teams and partners worldwide to offer the new solution . p

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