FlashSTOCK converged infrastructure from Pure Storage and Cisco is launching a new era

The simplicity, scalability and security that these systems offer customers make them the offer to bet. In the first quarter of 2016, convergent infrastructure added $ 2.5 billion, and various consultants expect growth to continue next year.

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These figures pushed independent vendor of solid state storage equipment, Pure Storage, to expand its collaboration with Cisco in the area of ​​converged infrastructure solutions, FlashStack.

After two years of collaboration, Pure Storage was able to take the next step in its relationship with Cisco: "FlashStack is now a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) solution," said Douglas Wallace, general manager for Latin America and The Caribbean (except Brazil) of Pure Storage.

FlashStack is a converged solution comprised of Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS), Pure Storage Flash Array Storage and Nexus Line Switch, Wallace said.

FlashStack Mini is the smallest product in the line (25 terabytes of Flash storage capacity). However, the solution can grow up to 1.5 Petabytes of storage in a space of at least seven racks, the executive said.

With FlashStack, businesses can quickly deploy virtualization to their desktops without compromising the performance of their users and business applications. It allows to scale the data of its desks quickly and in a linear way without degradations of yield; The latency of the system remains low, thanks to the numbers of virtual desks scale from hundreds to thousands. VMware or Citrix virtualization software enables FlashStack to handle various Virtual Desktop Enterprise infrastructure (VDI) use cases with Pure Storage and Cisco reference architectures, he added.

For Alejandro Vidal, head of business development for Cisco, the benefits of converged infrastructure are delivering to customers "an agile, energy-saving, time-efficient, easy-to-install solution that can be managed from a single console. In addition, the support is with a single vendor, Cisco. "

IDC's latest report reported that so-called converged infrastructure is one of the markets with the highest adoption, year-on-year growth of 11%. In addition, in the report of the first quarter of the year the consultant mentioned that the systems certified - as is the case of the solution between Cisco and Pure Storage - are the ones that more grow, entered $ 567 million dollars

The Next Step.

Thanks to the alliance, both executives commented, customers will have a single point of contact for support: Cisco. Flash Stack has support for critical infrastructure solutions from Cisco. That is, users will have the option to buy a single service and get hardware and software support.