Cisco and Nutanix form partnership to power hybrid multicloud adoption

• Aim to help customers develop a balanced approach to power modern workloads on-prem and in the cloud.
• Solution availability is expected in the next 90 days.

Cisco and Nutanix have forged a global strategic partnership to accelerate hybrid multicloud deployments by offering the industry’s hyperconverged solution for IT modernisation and business transformation. 

IT organisations continue to face significant operational hurdles and urgent sustainability and security concerns as a result of increasing multicloud complexity. 

The partnership answers these challenges by simplifying and accelerating the delivery of infrastructure and applications, at a global scale, through cloud operating models, flexibility, and automated resiliency with customer support.

 “Customers are asking for solutions that are simple, sustainable, and future-ready,” Jeremy Foster, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Compute, said. 

“This partnership answers with a complete solution spanning virtual compute, networking and storage across customer data centres and public clouds.” 

By combining Cisco’s SaaS-managed compute portfolio with Nutanix’s cloud platform software, “we can help customers develop a balanced approach to power modern workloads on-prem and in the cloud.”

Growth opportunity

As organisations look to keep up with the pace of innovation, Tarkan Maner, chief commercial officer at Nutanix, said that they need an integrated hardware and software platform to support application deployment anywhere.

“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.”

Following the announcement, Cisco and Nutanix will enable their global sales teams and partners worldwide to offer an exciting new solution combining technologies and collaborative go-to-market support, driven by the Cisco team. Solution availability is expected in the next 90 days.