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Channel Post MEA
13-05-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Nutanix Partners with Pure Storage to Seamlessly Deploy and Manage Virtual Workloads
Nutanix and Pure Storage have announced a partnership aimed at providing a deeply integrated solution that will allow customers to seamlessly deploy and manage virtual workloads on a scalable modern infrastructure. This integrated solution comes at a pivotal time for customers as the virtualization market evolution is top of mind. IT leaders are focused on helping their organizations maintain pace with the rapidly changing technology landscape while simultaneously implementing greater operational effectiveness. Gartner predicts that 'by 2028, cost concerns will drive 70% of enterprise-scale VMware customers to migrate 50% of their virtual workloads1.' With this collaboration, the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution, powered by the Nutanix AHV hypervisor along with Nutanix Flow virtual networking and security, will integrate with Pure Storage FlashArray over NVMe/TCP to deliver a customer experience uniquely designed for high-demand data workloads, including AI. Key Benefits: Scalable, Modern Infrastructure – This partnership will provide customers with access to high-performance, flexible, and efficient full-stack infrastructure to power their most business-critical workloads through the simplicity and agility of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for virtual compute, and the consistency, scalability, and performance density of Pure Storage all-flash systems. – This partnership will provide customers with access to high-performance, flexible, and efficient full-stack infrastructure to power their most business-critical workloads through the simplicity and agility of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for virtual compute, and the consistency, scalability, and performance density of Pure Storage all-flash systems. Built-in Cyber Resilience – Customers will be able to strengthen their end-to-end cyber-resilience posture by leveraging native Nutanix capabilities, such as Flow micro-segmentation and disaster recovery orchestration, alongside Pure Storage FlashArray capabilities, such as data-at-rest encryption and SafeMode. Customers will be able to strengthen their end-to-end cyber-resilience posture by leveraging native Nutanix capabilities, such as Flow micro-segmentation and disaster recovery orchestration, alongside Pure Storage FlashArray capabilities, such as data-at-rest encryption and SafeMode. Freedom of Choice – Customers want agility and control of their mission-critical environments. The combination of Nutanix and Pure Storage will offer a resilient and easy-to-use alternative to existing market options. 'We're thrilled to see Nutanix and Pure Storage joining forces. Their collective expertise, innovative technologies, and shared commitment to reliability and performance will deliver a compelling solution that directly addresses critical needs in the market,' said Anthony Jackman, Chief Innovation Officer at Expedient. 'Expedient is proud to be an early design partner, collaborating closely with both companies to ensure this solution elevates the quality of service we deliver, ultimately enhancing the value and experience for our clients nationwide.' 'This new solution will help Nutanix and Pure Storage reach more customers together and help them better manage and modernize their mission-critical applications,' said Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix. 'Our integrated solution will be ideally suited for companies with storage-rich environments looking for choices in modernization.' 'With more than 13,500 global customers, I'm hearing more than ever that organizations of all shapes and sizes have a growing need for efficient, flexible, and high-performance solutions that can also scale to support their most critical, data-intensive applications,' said Maciej Kranz, General Manager, Enterprise at Pure Storage. 'Nutanix and Pure Storage are both known for pushing the boundaries of traditional infrastructure, driving innovation, and enabling unmatched agility. With this easy-to-manage solution, our joint customers will have the power of a virtual infrastructure that's truly built for change.' This solution will be supported on major server hardware partners that currently support Pure Storage FlashArray, including Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro, for both existing and new deployments. Additionally, Cisco and Pure Storage are expanding their partnership of more than 60 FlashStack validated designs to include Nutanix in the portfolio – further simplifying full-stack delivery. 'The future of infrastructure is defined by flexibility,' said Jeremy Foster, SVP and General Manager, Cisco Compute. 'That's exactly what this next evolution of FlashStack delivers. With nearly a decade of joint innovation with Pure Storage, and an expanded partnership and co-development roadmap with Nutanix, we're offering a proven platform backed by Cisco validated designs, a world-class joint support model, and deep integration with Cisco Intersight – providing unified visibility across both Pure Storage and Nutanix clusters for a more complete view of the operating environment. This level of integration, insight, and support is what will set FlashStack with Nutanix apart in the market.' The solution is currently under development and is expected to be in early access by the summer of 2025 and generally available at the end of this calendar year through both Nutanix and Pure Storage channel partners. 0 0
Techday NZ
11-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Pure Storage & Nutanix join forces for ANZ cloud solution
Pure Storage and Nutanix announced that they were teaming up to offer a new integrated solution that combines the simplicity and flexibility of Nutanix's cloud infrastructure with Pure Storage's industry-leading FlashArray. This provides enterprises in Australia and New Zealand with a smarter and more powerful option for virtualisation. In an economy such as Australia's and New Zealand's, which have for many years been a leading adopter of virtualisation, we see this development as key to enabling enterprise technology teams to get the most of their increasingly strategic reliance on data. This solution will allow our customers to get access to a full-stack virtual infrastructure that's modern, scalable, and ready to handle their most mission-critical, data-intensive workloads – AI included. We are confident that at a time of constrained productivity challenges for Australian and New Zealand enterprises, this solution will help CTOs and CIOs to drive improved IT agility, reduce complexity, and create cost savings. Pure Storage and Nutanix developed this joint solution because the virtualisation market is shifting fast. With licensing costs climbing and vendor lock-in becoming an issue, IT leaders are rethinking their entire stack. The two companies are stepping in with a fresh alternative – one that's built for change and tuned for performance. Whether Australian and New Zealand customers are dealing with sprawling VMs or planning their next AI deployment, this partnership is all about freedom, resilience, and future-ready infrastructure. And the best part? It's simple to deploy, easy to manage, and coming soon. A match made in virtualisation heaven With this collaboration, the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution, powered by the Nutanix AHV hypervisor along with Nutanix Flow virtual networking and security, will integrate with Pure Storage FlashArray over NVMe/TCP to deliver a customer experience uniquely designed for high-demand data workloads, including AI. This solution will be supported on major server hardware partners that currently support Pure Storage FlashArray, including Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro for both existing and new deployments. Additionally, Cisco and Pure Storage are expanding their partnership of more than 60 FlashStack validated designs to include Nutanix in the portfolio – further simplifying full-stack delivery. Rethinking External Storage External storage options for Nutanix come in two flavors: scale-out x86 server-based storage versus a purpose-built external storage platform. Here is why purpose-built external flash storage is superior: it is comprehensively engineered from the ground up to deliver enterprise-grade performance, availability, and scale, without excess hardware or complexity. These systems cleanly separate storage from compute, so you can scale each independently. Because they're engineered specifically for the most performant and efficient storage, they offer deep, native integration with Prism for full visibility and control over provisioning, snapshots, health monitoring, and more — all from a single interface. Inline deduplication and compression are always on, with no need for tuning or trade-offs. And with non-disruptive upgrades and subscription-based lifecycle management, organizations can stay on the latest technology without forklift replacements. This approach brings true, industry-leading external storage to Nutanix, not just in name, but in architecture and experience. Enterprise Storage That Grows with an enterprise's needs Pure Storage FlashArray isn't just attached to Nutanix — it's engineered to be tightly integrated and evolve with it. With the Pure Storage Evergreen model, customers never have to repurchase storage. No re-licensing. No new forklift projects. Just ongoing, non-disruptive upgrades. It's the only storage subscription that future-proofs enterprise IT infrastructure and aligns with how Nutanix customers think about long-term value. Add in real-time Prism integration, ultra-dense DirectFlash Modules, and hands-off efficiency, and you've got a true first-class storage experience for a Nutanix environment. The difference between Pure Storage FlashArray and other external storage options in a Nutanix environment isn't subtle – it's structural.
Techday NZ
08-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Nutanix & Pure Storage team up for flexible virtual workloads
Nutanix and Pure Storage have announced a partnership to provide an integrated solution aimed at improving deployment and management of virtual workloads for mission-critical environments. The partnership combines the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, including the Nutanix AHV hypervisor and Nutanix Flow virtual networking and security, with Pure Storage FlashArray over NVMe/TCP. This integration is designed to address the needs of organisations facing rapid changes in the technology landscape and increasing demand for operational efficiency, particularly as the virtualisation market continues to evolve. Gartner forecasts that by 2028, concerns over cost will prompt 70% of enterprise-scale VMware customers to migrate half of their virtual workloads to alternative solutions. This context forms part of the rationale behind the new collaboration, which aims to provide flexibility, security, and scalable performance for high-demand data workloads, including artificial intelligence applications. The new offering is expected to deliver several key benefits for customers. These include access to a scalable and high-performance infrastructure for virtual compute and data storage, enhanced cyber resilience through combined security features, and greater freedom of choice when modernising mission-critical environments. Features like Flow micro-segmentation, disaster recovery orchestration from Nutanix, and data-at-rest encryption and SafeMode from Pure Storage are intended to support these outcomes. Anthony Jackman, Chief Innovation Officer at Expedient, commented on the collaboration, stating, "We're thrilled to see Nutanix and Pure Storage joining forces. Their collective expertise, innovative technologies, and shared commitment to reliability and performance will deliver a compelling solution that directly addresses critical needs in the market. Expedient is proud to be an early design partner, collaborating closely with both companies to ensure this solution elevates the quality of service we deliver, ultimately enhancing the value and experience for our clients nationwide." Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix, said, "This new solution will help Nutanix and Pure reach more customers together and help them better manage and modernize their mission-critical applications. Our integrated solution will be ideally suited for companies with storage-rich environments looking for choices in modernization." Maciej Kranz, General Manager, Enterprise at Pure Storage, added, "With more than 13,500 global customers, I'm hearing more than ever that organizations of all shapes and sizes have a growing need for efficient, flexible, and high-performance solutions that can also scale to support their most critical, data-intensive applications. Nutanix and Pure Storage are both known for pushing the boundaries of traditional infrastructure, driving innovation, and enabling unmatched agility. With this easy-to-manage solution, our joint customers will have the power of a virtual infrastructure that's truly built for change." The integrated solution will be compatible with server hardware from major partners that currently support Pure Storage FlashArray, including Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro. This applies to both existing installations and new deployments. Cisco and Pure Storage will also extend their partnership beyond the existing FlashStack validated designs to include Nutanix in their joint portfolio to streamline full-stack delivery. Jeremy Foster, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Compute, remarked, "The future of infrastructure is defined by flexibility. That's exactly what this next evolution of FlashStack delivers. With nearly a decade of joint innovation with Pure Storage, and an expanded partnership and co-development roadmap with Nutanix, we're offering a proven platform backed by Cisco validated designs, a world-class joint support model, and deep integration with Cisco Intersight – providing unified visibility across both Pure Storage and Nutanix clusters for a more complete view of the operating environment. This level of integration, insight, and support is what will set FlashStack with Nutanix apart in the market." The solution is currently in development and planned to enter early access by summer 2025. General availability is expected by the end of the calendar year through Nutanix and Pure Storage channel partners.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Nutanix and Pure Storage Partner to Deliver Greater Customer Choice with New Integrated Solution for Mission-Critical Workloads
'We're thrilled to see Nutanix and Pure Storage joining forces. Their collective expertise, innovative technologies, and shared commitment to reliability and performance will deliver a compelling solution that directly addresses critical needs in the market,' said Anthony Jackman, Chief Innovation Officer at Expedient. 'Expedient is proud to be an early design partner, collaborating closely with both companies to ensure this solution elevates the quality of service we deliver, ultimately enhancing the value and experience for our clients nationwide.' Freedom of Choice - Customers want agility and control of their mission-critical environments. The combination of Nutanix and Pure Storage will offer a resilient and easy-to-use alternative to existing market options. Built-in Cyber Resilience - Customers will be able to strengthen their end-to-end cyber-resilience posture by leveraging native Nutanix capabilities, such as Flow micro-segmentation and disaster recovery orchestration, alongside Pure Storage FlashArray capabilities, such as data-at-rest encryption and SafeMode. Scalable, Modern Infrastructure - This partnership will provide customers with access to high-performance, flexible, and efficient full-stack infrastructure to power their most business-critical workloads through the simplicity and agility of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for virtual compute, and the consistency, scalability, and performance density of Pure Storage all-flash systems. With this collaboration, the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution, powered by the Nutanix AHV hypervisor along with Nutanix Flow virtual networking and security, will integrate with Pure Storage FlashArray over NVMe/TCP to deliver a customer experience uniquely designed for high-demand data workloads, including AI. This integrated solution comes at a pivotal time for customers as the virtualization market evolution is top of mind. IT leaders are focused on helping their organizations maintain pace with the rapidly changing technology landscape while simultaneously implementing greater operational effectiveness. Gartner predicts that 'by 2028, cost concerns will drive 70% of enterprise-scale VMware customers to migrate 50% of their virtual workloads 1 .' WASHINGTON and SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- .NEXT Conference -- Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, and Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage platform and services, today announced a partnership aimed at providing a deeply integrated solution that will allow customers to seamlessly deploy and manage virtual workloads on a scalable modern infrastructure. Story Continues 'This new solution will help Nutanix and Pure Storage reach more customers together and help them better manage and modernize their mission-critical applications,' said Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix. 'Our integrated solution will be ideally suited for companies with storage-rich environments looking for choices in modernization.' 'With more than 13,500 global customers, I'm hearing more than ever that organizations of all shapes and sizes have a growing need for efficient, flexible, and high-performance solutions that can also scale to support their most critical, data-intensive applications,' said Maciej Kranz, General Manager, Enterprise at Pure Storage. 'Nutanix and Pure Storage are both known for pushing the boundaries of traditional infrastructure, driving innovation, and enabling unmatched agility. With this easy-to-manage solution, our joint customers will have the power of a virtual infrastructure that's truly built for change.' This solution will be supported on major server hardware partners that currently support Pure Storage FlashArray, including Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro, for both existing and new deployments. Additionally, Cisco and Pure Storage are expanding their partnership of more than 60 FlashStack validated designs to include Nutanix in the portfolio - further simplifying full-stack delivery. 'The future of infrastructure is defined by flexibility,' said Jeremy Foster, SVP and General Manager, Cisco Compute. 'That's exactly what this next evolution of FlashStack delivers. With nearly a decade of joint innovation with Pure Storage, and an expanded partnership and co-development roadmap with Nutanix, we're offering a proven platform backed by Cisco validated designs, a world-class joint support model, and deep integration with Cisco Intersight – providing unified visibility across both Pure Storage and Nutanix clusters for a more complete view of the operating environment. This level of integration, insight, and support is what will set FlashStack with Nutanix apart in the market.' The solution is currently under development and is expected to be in early access by the summer of 2025 and generally available at the end of this calendar year through both Nutanix and Pure Storage channel partners. For more information and to sign up for early access visit Nutanix and Pure Storage. About Nutanix Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software, offering organizations a single platform for running applications and managing data, anywhere. With Nutanix, companies can reduce complexity and simplify operations, freeing them to focus on their business outcomes. Building on its legacy as the pioneer of hyperconverged infrastructure, Nutanix is trusted by companies worldwide to power hybrid multicloud environments consistently, simply, and cost-effectively. Learn more at or follow us on social media @nutanix. © 2025 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. 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The accuracy of such statements involves risks and uncertainties and depends upon future events, including those that may be beyond Nutanix's control, and actual results may differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to any inability to develop, or any unexpected difficulties, delays or disruptions in developing, releasing or distributing, the new integrated solution in a timely or cost-effective basis. Any forward-looking statements included herein speak only as of the date hereof and, except as required by law, Nutanix assumes no obligation to update or otherwise revise any of such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. Certain products and features or functionalities described herein, including the new integrated solution and its features and functionalities, remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. The development, release, and timing of any such products, features or functionalities are subject to change. Nutanix will not have any liability for any failure to deliver or delay in the delivery of any such products, features or functionalities. Any future product or product feature information is intended to outline general product directions, and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation for Nutanix to deliver any functionality. This information should not be used when making a purchasing decision. About Pure Storage Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) delivers the industry's most advanced data storage platform to store, manage, and protect the world's data at any scale. With Pure Storage, organizations have ultimate simplicity and flexibility, saving time, money, and energy. From AI to archive, Pure Storage delivers a cloud experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service platform across on-premises, cloud, and hosted environments. Our platform is built on our Evergreen architecture that evolves with your business — always getting newer and better with zero planned downtime, guaranteed. Our customers are actively increasing their capacity and processing power while significantly reducing their carbon and energy footprint. It's easy to fall in love with Pure Storage, as evidenced by the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry. For more information, visit Pure Storage, the Pure Storage P Logo, and the marks in the Pure Storage Trademark List are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage, Inc., in the U.S. and/or other countries. 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Forbes
30-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Dell Launches PowerFlex With Nutanix Cloud Platform For Better SDI
Dell PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure Dell Technologies has just announced the availability of its PowerFlex software-defined storage, which includes Nutanix Cloud Platform and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure. While the Dell-Nutanix partnership was announced last year, today marks the availability of the joint solution. Dell is the first known vendor to support NCP and the Nutanix hypervisor (called AHV) in this scalable, two-tiered model. Let's dig into the announcement in more detail and explore the competitive landscape for this new offering. (Note: Dell and Nutanix are clients of my firm, Moor Insights & Strategy.) Hyperconverged infrastructure has made life easier for IT organizations — significantly easier. First, HCI makes it about 60% faster to deploy and provision compute, storage and network infrastructure. HCI also simplifies ongoing management thanks to automation and a single control plane to manage all of these elements. Further, developers and other users can provision their own environments through self-service portals. So, it's easier for IT administrators and easier for users — a win-win. This is why over half of enterprise IT organizations now deploy HCI to some extent. However, the rigidity of HCI can make it challenging to use it for workloads with significant scale requirements. Take, for example, a database environment where the compute resources are adequate but more storage is needed. In traditional HCI, this would require deploying a new pool of compute, storage and networking resources because the architecture scales linearly. In other words, if you sign on for more storage, you take on more compute and networking whether you want it or not. So you end up wasting the extra compute and networking just to achieve optimized storage. Fortunately, software-defined infrastructure that uses external software-defined storage as a core component addresses this problem by enabling the independent scale of these resources. With SDI, the database environment mentioned in the above example could be supported by provisioning more storage without deploying additional compute. Leveraging external storage enables independent scaling of resources. The above diagram is a good example of how software-defined storage helps an IT organization grow its infrastructure much more easily. In this case, Nutanix's AHV hypervisor would reside on each of the external storage servers and be available to the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (the NCP compute cluster). If you need more storage, just deploy another storage server with AHV. Beyond database and mission-critical workloads, SDS is ideal for IT modernization efforts, such as cloud-native 2.0 and AI, where scalable, persistent, high-performance storage is important for supporting containerized and data-intensive environments. This primer on HCI versus SDI and SDS may seem basic, but it's essential to set the context for the potential impact of today's announcement, where PowerFlex has become the first external storage to support the Nutanix Cloud Platform. Some refer to this as a two-tiered architecture; others refer to it as disaggregated. Whatever you choose to call it, the high-performance and scalable capabilities of the Dell hardware are combined with Nutanix's software-defined architecture (NCP) to deliver the ease of HCI to the enterprise — without the traditional limitations of HCI. PowerFlex delivers NCP with disaggregated storage. The above diagram shows how PowerFlex works with NCP to drive support for enterprise workloads in a disaggregated way. Dell PowerFlex compute-only nodes (labeled CO in the diagram) running the Nutanix stack (AHV, NCI operating system) support enterprise workloads. It is important to note that these CO nodes do not access any NCP storage; rather, they simply act as compute servers. This is the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure element of NCP. These NCI nodes connect to a PowerFlex storage cluster (bottom row) that provides all of the external storage through SDS. As shown in the earlier Nutanix graphic, adding more storage is as simple as deploying another PowerFlex storage server, and adding more compute is as simple as deploying another PowerFlex compute node. If not familiar with PowerFlex, this may sound a little confusing. In fact, it may lead to the question of whether PowerFlex is SDI or SDS. The answer is yes to both. PowerFlex is an SDI platform with SDS as a key element. SDS can be internal or external. While internal SDS can deliver slightly better latency, external SDS enables the scale, manageability and resiliency necessary for real enterprise adoption. If you're familiar with this space, you'll know that this disaggregated architecture is nothing new. Looking at Dell's main competitors, HPE has a fairly rich SDI portfolio comprised of its own solution (dHCI) as well as support for VMware and other platforms. Likewise, Lenovo's ThinkAgile portfolio is competitive. In fact, Lenovo just refreshed its VMware solution to drive down VMware licensing costs from the perspective of core counts and storage tiers. Regardless of the hardware vendor, the market for HCI and software-defined in general has largely been a two-horse race, dominated by Nutanix — the pioneer in this niche — and VMware. For industry context, it is important to note that, after its acquisition by Broadcom, VMware's recent consolidation of its portfolio into VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation has changed its licensing and pricing considerably. (That's part of what Lenovo is responding to with its refresh.) With this PowerFlex offering, Dell is the first external storage partner to leverage NCP as the software-defined architecture layer. This is significant because today more organizations are looking for alternatives to VMware, and Broadcom's licensing changes have led to considerable price hikes for many customers. With Nutanix evolving NCP and Dell supporting NCP with PowerFlex, this solution can become a natural landing spot for some of those disgruntled customers. Further, Nutanix has tried to ease the migration with tools like Move to help IT orgs transition from another hypervisor to AHV. (That said, Nutanix also supports hypervisor choice.) I expect Dell to be the first of many hardware partners to support NCP with external storage. As NCP continues to be evaluated by so many large IT organizations that want to use it across the business, that creates market pressure on storage companies to support it. The embrace of NCP has been made easier by the partner-friendly approach Nutanix has taken with all vendors — Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro and others. In doing this, the company appears to be thinking beyond marketing campaigns and dollars. Based on all my conversations with the company and its customers, Nutanix seems to be one of those vendors that genuinely goes beyond lip service to co-engineer partner solutions that leverage the technologies of both companies for the benefit of customers. I suspect enterprise IT is going to respond quite well to the availability of PowerFlex with NCP. This solution was announced about a year ago, which leads me to believe there has been a lot of customer testing to put the solution through its paces. This would fit with larger trends, because both Dell and Nutanix are maniacal about customer experience. For starters, the PowerFlex customer base appears to consist of about 3,000 large enterprise organizations. I expect many of these customers to be giving this solution a hard look. Finally, expect other infrastructure companies with storage portfolios (both server OEMs and storage-only vendors) to jump into the fray and offer their own NCP platforms. Now that Dell has done the heavy lifting associated with being first to market, a blueprint has been established. Nutanix's customer conference, .NEXT, is next week. I imagine the company will have a lot to say about this solution then. Expect to hear more from Dell as well, both at .NEXT and its own customer conference, Dell Tech World, in a couple of weeks. Final thought. While this is a win for Nutanix and Dell, it's a big win for those larger enterprise IT organizations that have already adopted the Nutanix experience in HCI and can now implement it that much more readily with Dell hardware. It's also a big win for organizations looking for a competitive and more cost-effective software-defined architecture, given the turmoil in this market over the past couple of years. Game on.
