MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Oct. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market's leading independent
solid-state array vendor, today announced the company is expanding
its FlashStack™ Converged Infrastructure Solution with Cisco®,
which makes it easier for customers 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.
As data centers modernize from cost center to center 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.
"As organizations embrace
digitization, data centers must enable agile, highly secure and
more efficient application delivery with rapid access to
information," said Satinder Sethi,
VP, Data Center and Cloud Solutions, Cisco. "Achieving 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 center infrastructure solution."
Validated Designs for FlashStack
Featuring technology from Pure Storage, which Gartner has named
a leader in solid-state arrays 3 years in a row, FlashStack
combines 'best of breed' components for converged infrastructure
which have been tested under many different scenarios.
Comprised of Cisco Unified Computing System™ (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® and/or MDS® Series Switches. The latest
addition to the FlashStack family, the FlashStack Mini, bundles the
new FlashArray//m10 with the Cisco UCS Mini compute and fabric
interconnect hardware along with virtualization software from
VMware or Microsoft.
Pure Storage and Cisco have developed a Cisco Validated Design
for FlashStack with VMware Horizon for Enterprise VDI deployments
up to 5,000 seats.
With FlashStack, organizations 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 virtualization software,
FlashStack addresses several VDI use cases with Cisco
Validated Designs and reference architectures from Pure Storage and
VMware.
"To reduce costs across our
eight data centers, we decided to deploy FlashStack with VDI,"
said John Henderson, Assistant Vice
President, Texas Children's Hospital. "In our first phase roll-out
to over 1,000 clinicians, not only did we achieve our financial
goals, clinician adoption, satisfaction, and efficiency increased
as well. Having the Cisco Validated Design in place provides us
with additional confidence as we look to expand our solution in the
next several months."
Modern furniture and accessories design company Room & Board
initially planned to deploy only one workload – in this case SAP.
As the IT team saw just how quickly its SAP performance issues
vanished, Room & Board decided to add new workloads, including
Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and
more.
"The collaboration between Cisco
and Pure Storage for FlashStack has allowed us to add capacity and
capabilities to our environment we never envisioned," said
Shawn O'Brien, Director of
Infrastructure and Architecture for Room & Board. "We initially
bought FlashStack only for our SAP workloads, but when our report
time went from five-to-seven hours on average down to fewer than
two, it became apparent FlashStack could positively impact many
more complex workloads across our entire organization."
At Room & Board, key sales reports that used to take an hour
each can now be completed in less than two minutes, while Citrix
log-in times for hundreds of users was reduced by more than 60
percent. Knowing there is rigorous testing and development standing
behind these solutions, IT organizations such as Room & Board
can feel confident about adding new technologies to the mix to
accelerate business-driven initiatives.
In addition, Pure Storage and Cisco have recently introduced a
Cisco Validated Design on FlashStack Data Center for Oracle®
Database 12c 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 center
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
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.
"Accelerating our clients'
migration to the cloud is critical to Secure-24's continued
success," said Scott McIsaac, CTO,
Secure-24. "FlashStack's integrated architecture, built on
industry-leading components from Pure Storage, Cisco, VMware, SAP,
Citrix, and more, enables us to quickly deploy landscapes and meet
the dynamic business needs of our clients."
In this always-on digital age, women's health website
Lifscript.com appreciates the business and IT transformation that
an all-flash data center drives.
"FlashStack from Cisco and Pure is
the disruptive technology we needed to change our entire data
center," said Jack Hogan, CTO,
Lifescript. "In fact, after achieving 12x reduction in latency; 60
percent reduction in data center footprint; and 3.5-to-1 data
reduction in our first data center, we've decided to expand this
solution to our second data center."
The company's new data center, based on Pure Storage FlashStack,
was up and running within a week while slashing collocation costs
by $100,000 a year and latency by up
to 95 percent.
One-Call Support for FlashStack
Enterprises and service providers can resolve complex data
center 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 provides customers with an option to purchase a
single service for hardware and software support for this flexible
all-flash solution.
The Cisco Solution Support team delivers solution expertise and
accountability for centralized issue management and resolution
among Cisco and technology partner products within covered
multivendor solutions.
Strengthening Relationship Between Pure Storage and
Cisco
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™.
"As data centers become more complex, enterprises and service
providers need to simplify IT with converged solutions," said
Michael Sotnick, Vice President,
Global Channels and Alliances, Pure Storage. "FlashStack enables IT
organizations to work with top partners like Cisco and Pure Storage
through our mutual channel to achieve tangible, lasting business
transformation they never thought possible."
- Joint Customers: Pure Storage solutions (including
FlashStack CI) with Cisco have expanded to thousands of deployments
across more than 30 countries and a wide range of industries,
including financial services, healthcare, education and service
providers.
- Cisco Solution Incentive Program (SIP): FlashStack CI is
now a qualified solution under the Cisco Solution Incentive
Program, which is designed to encourage Cisco technology and
channel partners to collaboratively develop, market, and deliver
industry solutions that create successful business outcomes.
- Cisco Capital Agreement: Cisco and Pure Storage
have recently signed a teaming agreement designed to accelerate
FlashStack, FlashArray and FlashBlade business through Cisco
Capital's worldwide lease base, Master Licensing Agreements and
relationships with financial leads in key accounts.
- Cisco UCS 3.0 Certification: Pure has been certified on
Cisco UCS 3.0, the latest Cisco UCS Manager release and the main
release for the Cisco UCS Mini, and is working towards completing
other testing requirements for Cisco MDS, UCS and Nexus
compatibility, including Nexus 9000 switches.
- Cisco UCS Director Integration: Cisco UCS Director
provides a data center orchestration platform to monitor, plan and
execute infrastructure management tasks on joint Cisco and Pure
deployments, including FlashStack Converged Infrastructure. With
built-in workflows for Pure Storage FlashArray, Cisco Nexus
switches, Cisco UCS compute and VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director
allows IT to shift time and focus from infrastructure management to
delivering new service innovation.
- Cisco DCNM integration: Pure Storage arrays also have
SMI-S capability, which enables the arrays to be visualized in the
Cisco Prime Data Center Network Management (DCNM) tool for ease of
optimization and troubleshooting.
These integration proof points between Cisco and Pure Storage
provide stability to channel partners, alliance ecosystem, and
customers. Read what Pure Storage and Cisco customer and partners
are saying about today's announcement.
Cisco Validated Designs for FlashStack
- FlashStack with Cisco UCS and Pure Storage FlashArray//m for
5000 VMware Horizon View 6.2 Users
- FlashStack Data Center with Oracle Database 12c on
Oracle Linux
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps companies push the boundaries of
what's possible. The company's all-flash based
technology, combined with its customer-friendly business
model, drives business and IT transformation with Smart
Storage that is effortless, efficient and evergreen. Pure Storage
offers two flagship products: FlashArray//m, optimized for
structured workloads, and FlashBlade, ideal for unstructured data.
With Pure's industry leading Satmetrix-certified NPS score of 83.5,
Pure customers are some of the happiest in the world, and includes
organizations of all sizes, across an ever-expanding range of
industries.
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