Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix

Research Report: Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix

The enterprise infrastructure market is faced with disruption across multiple fronts. Traditional virtualization platforms face unprecedented disruption, while emerging AI-first workloads demand architectures that seamlessly span on-prem, cloud, and edge environments.

It’s against this backdrop that Nutanix, Cisco, and Pure Storage have collaborated to reimagine converged infrastructure with Cisco’s FlashStack with Nutanix:

  • Addresses three critical enterprise needs: VMware alternatives, AI-ready infrastructure, and modernization without architectural lock-in
  • Organizations can achieve up to an 85% reduction in physical footprint and power consumption compared to equivalent three-tier architectures
  • As compared with traditional HCI solutions, FlashStack with Nutanix enables independent scaling of compute and storage resources while maintaining HCI-like operational simplicity
  • Validated architectures reduce deployment risk and accelerate time-to-value through pre-tested configurations.

This Research Report (sponsored by Nutanix) examines the Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix, a solution combining Cisco’s validated compute platform, Nutanix’s cloud-native operating model, and Pure Storage’s enterprise flash arrays.

The results show a shift toward modular convergence that preserves operational benefits while eliminating traditional architectural constraints.

Read the full paper HERE.

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