Pushy Pure, cheerful Cisco fortify FlashStack

Pushy Pure Storage is expanding its FlashStack collaboration with Cisco. FlashStack is a converged system reference design, FlexPod style, involving Pure flash arrays and Cisco server and networking gear. For example, the FlashStack Mini bundles the FlashArray//m10 with the Cisco UCS Mini compute and fabric interconnect …

[froberts2]

Is this going to be like last time they announced something with Cisco, and Cisco knew nothing about it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Pure/Cisco Flashstack is official

You probably confused Pure Storage with Nutanix. It was Nutanix, not Pure Storage, that announced "validated design on UCS" without Cisco Support:

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/08/21/nutanix-independently-validates-itself-on-ciscos-ucs/

Pure Storage & Cisco UCS flashstack, on the other hands, is official:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_view62_5k.html

[dpk]

Because reference architectures for CI are so hot right now.