Cisco and NetApp Advance Digital Transformation with Software-Defined Converged Infrastructure Solution for the Next-Generati...
June 22 2017 - 08:00AM
Cisco and NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) today expanded the portfolio of the
industry’s fastest growing integrated infrastructure and certified
reference systems1 with a new offering that is uniquely
designed for emerging business challenges.
The new FlexPod® SF solution offers an ideal infrastructure for
the data-intensive scale-out workloads that are critical to digital
transformation. It features innovative NetApp® SolidFire®
all-flash, scale-out, cloud-connected storage, Cisco Unified
Computing System (Cisco UCS®) B-Series servers, and Cisco Nexus®
switching. The new solution can support enterprise and emerging
architectures with precise storage capacity and performance
tailored to the needs of individual tenants in multitenant
environments.
“Enterprise IT organizations face a dual challenge; they have to
maximize performance and value from existing mission-critical
workloads while adopting new technologies that can speed digital
transformation,” said Eric Sheppard, research director, IDC. “The
adoption of private cloud solutions offers an approach that helps
them more easily transition to the future. FlexPod SF is a good
example of an architecture that securely and seamlessly delivers
workloads across cloud environments at scale and at cost.”
New Features Support Fast-Paced Cloud
Environments
The new solution extends the FlexPod technology portfolio that
has been deployed by over 8,400 global customers and 1,100 partners
that serve 100 countries. Representing over 250 years of combined
engineering experience, the portfolio has generated a total of $8
billion in combined revenue across Cisco and NetApp to date.
The new solution offers:
- High-end predictable
performance. Reliably run hundreds of applications on a
single platform with guaranteed SLAs to independently set capacity
and quality of service (QoS) at minimum, maximum, or burst
performance levels across the entire infrastructure. FlexPod SF is
built on Cisco UCS, which has over 120 world record benchmarks,
combined with the dedicated performance of NetApp SolidFire
storage. SolidFire offers the ability to remove 93% of storage
performance issues and remove “noisy neighbors” with SolidFire
QoS.
- Programmable agility.
Seamlessly meet business demands with SolidFire software-defined
architecture, simplified management, and scale by automating every
aspect of provisioning, management, and reporting with 100%
programmable SolidFire storage and UCS B-Series servers. Cisco UCS
compute offers up to 56% faster time to market and the ability to
deliver up to 59% more business applications to end users. NetApp
SolidFire storage also enables virtual machine (VM) deployment up
to five times faster and provides granular “scale as you grow”
capabilities with independent storage nodes.
- Scale-out value. Enable
customers to align business expenses with business growth by
reducing initial capital expenditures. This highly flexible
solution delivers controlled performance at lower operating costs
by allowing customers to buy only as much compute and storage as
they need, when they need it. The FlexPod family of solutions
delivers impactful savings of up to 46% in lower IT infrastructure
costs. FlexPod SF also offers cost savings through infrastructure
consolidation, automation, and rapid application delivery.
“At Safelite, a leading provider of vehicle glass repair and
replacement services, we serve up to 6 million customers every
year. To continue offering our customers the best service possible,
we needed a simple, highly scalable solution that would offer a
superior customer experience and support our continued growth,”
said Matthew Coy, vice president, Information
Technology, Safelite Group. “The high-performance compute and
next-generation storage of FlexPod SF provided us a strong
foundation for our state-of-the-art claims processing center.”
“We’ve had great success in leveraging FlexPod to help our
customers address their business requirements and achieve
operational efficiency, cost savings, and overall success,” said
Jerry McIntosh, senior vice president, Advanced Technology, ePlus.
“We’re excited for the opportunity to expand our reach to cloud and
virtualization buyers with FlexPod SF.”
“To help businesses capitalize on their digital transformation,
IT needs a new kind of cloud infrastructure that is simply, agile,
and performs predictably as application requirements rapidly
change,” said Satinder Sethi, vice president, Data Center
Solutions, Cisco. “FlexPod SF offers a prevalidated,
next-generation software–defined, converged architecture solution
that customers can deploy with confidence to meet their
transformational goals.”
“Data is at the heart of business success in the digital era.
Together, Cisco and NetApp offer a family of solutions that give
organizations access to the full value of their data for
competitive advantage,” said Brett Roscoe, vice president,
Products, Solutions, and Services Marketing, NetApp. “FlexPod SF
helps customers maximize that value with a new kind of converged
infrastructure that easily scales, performs predictably, and offers
better economics.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about FlexPod SF.
- Read more about this announcement in Cisco and NetApp
blogs.
- See FlexPod SF in booth #2115 Cisco Live.
About FlexPodFlexPod is a portfolio of
prevalidated, converged infrastructure solutions that combine the
Cisco Unified Computing System integrated infrastructure, Cisco
networking, and NetApp storage components. FlexPod simplifies and
modernizes IT with continuous innovation, delivering unmatched
application performance, broad support for any cloud strategy, and
improved operational efficiency to accelerate data center
transformation and business evolution. The FlexPod portfolio
includes FlexPod Datacenter for core enterprise data centers and
service providers, FlexPod Express for medium-sized businesses and
branch offices, and FlexPod Select for data-intensive workloads.
The portfolio is validated with leading hypervisors, operating
systems, systems management tools, and cloud management
platforms.
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About NetApp NetApp is the data authority for
hybrid cloud. We provide a full range of hybrid cloud data
services that simplify management of applications and data across
cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital
transformation. Together with our partners, we empower global
organizations to unleash the full potential of their data to expand
customer touchpoints, foster greater innovation and optimize their
operations. For more information, visit www.netapp.com.
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