Cisco extends its Enterprise Agreement to include Nutanix Cloud Platform
via Network World
Cisco has extended its Enterprise Agreement (EA) software licensing and services program to include Nutanix and its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) package, the Nutanix Cloud Platform.
The move is unique in that Cisco included third-party OEM technology in the EA, which typically involves only Cisco networking, software, security and other services, according to a blog post penned by Jeremy Foster, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Compute.
The move gives customers predictable pricing for the term of the agreement, with price protection and consistent commercial terms that reduce budgeting uncertainty, Foster stated.
The vendors have also tightened integration between Intersight and Nutanix management systems, delivered support for the Nutanix AI-based GPT-in-a-Box package, and improved enterprise network integration with Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).
Technology service provider and systems integrator World Wide Technology had this to say about the Cisco and Nutanix partnership: "Some of the partnership differentiators between Cisco and Nutanix go far beyond surface-level integration. Cisco engineered native, first-party connections between Intersight and Nutanix Life-Cycle Manager (LCM), enabling true Day 0 support for one-click upgrades — unlike legacy HyperFlex deployments that often faced 60-day qualification delays," WWT wrote in a 2025 blog post.
"That same level of integration extends to support and deployment. Cisco and Nutanix offer e-bonded global support, where TAC teams on both sides share case notes, logs and diagnostics in real time. Cases are instantly routed to the appropriate team — hardware to Cisco, software to Nutanix — eliminating hand-offs, repeated troubleshooting or finger-pointing," WWT wrote. "Deployment is just as streamlined: Thanks to deep Intersight integration, clusters can be brought online remotely without relying on Nutanix Foundation Central's complex DHCP setup. Aside from physical racking and cabling, the entire process can be executed remotely — ideal for multi-site, global-scale rollouts."