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Publication Date: 2026-01-13 23:03:00
Cisco’s long-simmering integration work with Pure Storage and Nutanix hit a commercial milestone, with the trio now officially offering a converged stack of compute, storage, and software running in a modular architecture, a configurable package that could present migration opportunities for disgruntled VMware customers.
Jonathan Gorlin, director of product management at Cisco Compute, explained in a blog post that the FlashStack with Nutanix platform is a jointly validated offering that taps services from the three vendors.
Cisco offers up its UCS X-Series, C-Series, and B-Series servers; Pure Storage provides its FlashArray; and Nutanix its Cloud Platform that includes Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and its Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). There is also non-volatile memory express (NVMe)/transmission control protocol (TCP) connectivity and support for Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, and Pure1 unified lifecycle management platforms.
This converged stack can be run in greenfield environments or adapted to current vendor customers.
“With this architecture, organizations can design a predictable, consistent foundation for databases, enterprise applications, analytics, and cloud-native workloads – while maintaining the operational models they trust,” Gorlin wrote.
The work harkens back to last May, when Nutanix and Pure Storage struck a deal that tied the former’s AHV to the latter’s FlashArray platform. This linked Nutanix’s cloud infrastructure and its Flow…
