There’s enough overlap that the deal works already. Next: cloud networks and maybe a storage push
Cisco is now Nutanix’s closest hardware partner, meaning integration of the hyperconverged upstart’s stack and Cisco’s UCS servers will be stronger, sooner, as their new partnership gather steam.
The two announced a “strategic partnership” in August, when Cisco announced it would resell Nutanix’s stack on its UCS servers. A few weeks later, the real reason for the partnership became plain: Cisco’s discontnued its Hyperflex hyperconverged stack, and anointed Nutanix as its preferred vendor of such software.
The Register chatted to the two companies about their relationship this week. Nutanix’s senior veep of product management Thomas Cornely told us that his company and Cisco have a “much deeper tech partnership in terms of early engagement” around hardware compared to other hardware-makers.
