Enterprise IT is in the midst of a historic shift – moving away from piecing together standalone products in favor of data centers built around pre-validated solutions with reference architectures. This transition will be a key topic of discussion at Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, Cisco Live, which runs from June 23 through 27 in Orlando, Florida. It promises be a great event, showcasing Cisco and its partners, and Nimble Storage is excited to be there to show off all the hard work we have done together. 
Nimble has partnered with Cisco to bring to market the Nimble Storage SmartStack, an integrated solution including best-of-breed storage, servers, networking, and virtualization technology. Working closely together, Cisco and Nimble have jointly produced reference architectures that have been tested for interoperability, performance, and fast deployment.
Cisco and Nimble pre-validated SmartStack solutions have also been developed in collaboration with Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft to address both desktop virtualization, and server virtualization for private cloud deployments. Storage is not purchased in silos, so we’ve developed reference architectures with the key industry-leading ecosystem partners to provide a complete range of solutions.
Come by booth #225 to learn how SmartStack solutions can help your organization accelerate deployments and reduce risk, improve IT productivity, and flexibly scale as needs change. Nimble Storage hybrid arrays will also be featured in the Cisco Unified Data Center Partner Ecosystem Technology Demonstration, so be sure to visit us there as well.
To learn more and to have a chance at winning a $100 Amazon gift card, check out our special Cisco Live site that’s filled with great content, such as product briefs, details on our reference architectures, and SmartStack customer case studies: http://info.nimblestorage.com/cisco-live-2013-nimble-storage.html
See you in Orlando!
It is similar in that we all work with Cisco to validate our reference architectures. The key difference with SmartStack is in the storage layer where you get all the benefits that the Nimble Storage architecture delivers in terms of performance, capacity,and data protection – happy to chat about this more at CL.