{"id":13114,"date":"2016-11-17T10:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T10:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=13114"},"modified":"2016-11-17T10:48:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T10:48:22","slug":"pure-storage-expands-flashstack-converged-infrastructure-solution-with-cisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/11\/17\/pure-storage-expands-flashstack-converged-infrastructure-solution-with-cisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Storage expands FlashStack solution with Cisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pure Storage, the solid-state array vendor, recently announced that the company is expanding its FlashStack<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Converged Infrastructure Solution<\/em> with Cisco, allowing\u00a0customers to deploy, expand and maintain FlashStack solutions. With thousands of deployments in over 30 countries around the world, this proven solution continues to see triple digit growth year-over-year, the company has claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n

As data centres modernise from cost centre-to-centre of innovation, complexity has been increased by a wider span of locations and vendors to support. In this new era, FlashStack has been gaining market momentum as a consolidation platform for diverse IT workloads.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/i>\u201cAs organisations embrace digitisation, data centres must enable agile, highly secure and more efficient application delivery with rapid access to information,\u201d said Satinder Sethi, VP, Data Centre and Cloud Solutions, Cisco. \u201cAchieving this goal will require new technologies and innovations to enable operational agility, deliver actionable insight and provide engaging experiences for customers and partners. Cisco is pleased to collaborate with Pure Storage to deliver FlashStack solutions that enable digital enterprise IT with an integrated high-performance data centre infrastructure solution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Validated designs for FlashStack<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Featuring technology from Pure Storage, which Gartner has named a leader in solid-state arrays 3 years in a row<\/span><\/a>, FlashStack combines \u2018best of breed\u2019 components for converged infrastructure which have been tested under many different scenarios.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Comprised of Cisco Unified Computing System<\/em> (Cisco UCS) and Pure Storage FlashArray\/\/m storage along with mission-critical and business-critical applications, FlashStack is a modular and scalable solution, which, in larger configurations, may also include Cisco Nexus<\/em> and\/or MDS Series Switches<\/em>. The latest addition to the FlashStack family, the FlashStack Mini, bundles the new FlashArray\/\/m10<\/span><\/a> with the Cisco UCS Mini compute and fabric interconnect hardware along with virtualisation software from VMware or Microsoft.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pure Storage and Cisco have developed a Cisco Validated Design for FlashStack with VMware Horizon<\/span><\/a> for Enterprise VDI deployments up to 5,000 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n

With\u00a0FlashStack, organisations can scale desktops quickly and linearly without performance degradation, and system latency remains low as virtual desktop numbers scale from hundreds to thousands. With support for VMware virtualisation software, FlashStack addresses several VDI use\u00a0cases\u00a0<\/span><\/a>with Cisco Validated Designs and reference architectures from Pure Storage and VMware.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, Pure Storage and Cisco have recently introduced a Cisco Validated Design on FlashStack Data Centre for Oracle Database 12c<\/i><\/span><\/a> with Oracle Real Application Clusters, tested in both 4-node and 8-node versions. Pure has also introduced a number of other FlashStack solutions covering key data centre workloads including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, SAP ERP, SAP HANA, SAP Lumira, VMware vSphere, Citrix XenDesktop, NVIDIA vGPU for graphically-intensive VDI, and more. FlashStack<\/span><\/a> customers include cloud service providers, educational institutions, hospitals, governments and financial services leaders, all of which have deployed FlashStack to transform to all-flash infrastructure. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Enterprises and service providers can resolve complex data centre issues quickly with Cisco Solution Support for Critical Infrastructure, which frees up IT resources for more strategic business opportunities. Cisco Solution Support for Critical Infrastructure<\/span><\/a><\/span> provides customers with an option to purchase a single service for hardware and software support for this flexible all-flash solution.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cisco Solution Support team delivers solution expertise and accountability for centralised issue management and resolution among Cisco and technology partner products within covered multivendor solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pure and Cisco continue to collaborate on FlashStack go-to-market strategies, including support for their joint channel partner ecosystem, focused on business-critical applications and structured workloads for the FlashArray product line, and unstructured workloads, including containers and microservices, with FlashBlade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs data centres become more complex, enterprises and service providers need to simplify IT with converged solutions,\u201d said Michael Sotnick, Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances, Pure Storage. \u201cFlashStack enables IT organisations to work with top partners like Cisco and Pure Storage through our mutual channel to achieve tangible, lasting business transformation they never thought possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n