FlexPod Passes $3 Billion in Joint Sales for Cisco and NetApp
FlexPod Shipments Growing 81 Percent Annually to More Than 4,100
Customers Across 100 Countries; Cisco and NetApp Align Technology
Roadmaps to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption
SAN JOSE, CA and SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 25, 2014) -
Cisco and NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that the
FlexPod® integrated infrastructure solution has generated $3
billion in joint sales since its launch in 2010. FlexPod unit
shipments have grown 81 percent year-over-year, with demand for
FlexPod solutions now reaching a $2 billion annualized demand run
rate.
By combining compute, networking and storage into a single
system, integrated infrastructure provides the ability to
dramatically improve the efficiency and agility of data center
infrastructure, while reducing deployment risks. As a result,
integrated infrastructure has emerged as one of the fastest growing
segments of the IT infrastructure market, with Gartner estimating
that the integrated systems market will grow at a compound annual
growth rate of 56.3 percent between 2012 and 2016.
"Our partnership with Cisco on the FlexPod integrated
infrastructure redefined how enterprises deployed private cloud
infrastructure," said Tom Georgens, Chairman and CEO, NetApp. "As
the data center extends to include public cloud services for better
economics and infinite scale, NetApp and Cisco are again leading
the way, helping customers realize the transformative business
benefits of hybrid cloud."
"As CIOs look to simplify IT and focus on delivering business
outcomes, there's been a major industry shift toward integrated
infrastructure," said John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco.
"In 2010 Cisco and NetApp launched FlexPod to deliver a more
efficient, agile data center infrastructure to customers. Together,
we're evolving the FlexPod architecture together to help our
customers unleash their applications and realize the promise of
hybrid cloud environments."
FlexPod Momentum:
- Worldwide Adoption: FlexPod is deployed with more than 4,100
customers and available in over 100 countries, an increase
from 2,300 customers, and 70 countries last year.
- Channel Acceleration: Critical to the success of FlexPod
has been its popularity with channel partners. The FlexPod
global reseller ecosystem continues to grow with more than
1,000 channel partners qualified to sell and support Cisco
and NetApp technologies. These include 110 FlexPod
Premium partners with the specialized skills to sell and
support integrated infrastructure.
- FlexPod Roadmap: As businesses embrace hybrid clouds to rapidly
and cost-effectively deliver business-critical applications and
services, Cisco and NetApp are aggressively integrating innovative
technology into the FlexPod architecture, including Cisco®
Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco Intercloud
Fabric, along with NetApp's clustered DATA ONTAP, Flash and cloud
technologies.
- Ecosystem Innovation: Technology partners have also contributed
to the success of FlexPod, with key companies such as
Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Citrix, F5, BridgeHead Software,
Eaton, and Splunk, optimizing applications to run atop a
FlexPod integrated infrastructure.
- Building on Success: Today's news continues to deliver against
the three-year plan announced by Cisco and NetApp in January 2013
to align technology roadmaps and address the next-generation
cloud-integrated data center design. As part of this initiative,
FlexPod will serve as the foundation for a virtualized,
multi-tenant, cloud-ready data center.
Customer Momentum U.S. Accounting Firm Attains 95% Faster Access
to Customer Records: Katz, Sapper and Miller (KSM) is one of the
top Certified Public Accountant (CPA) firms in the United States.
In the tax and accounting business, maximizing time spent on
productive billing is a major priority. With its data footprint
growing at roughly 25 percent each year, KSM had outgrown its
five-year-old IT infrastructure. FlexPod Premium Partner Logicalis
recommended a complete data center reinvention based on a FlexPod
platform with VMware® vSphere to vastly improve performance and
virtually eliminate downtime. Now, customer records are instantly
searchable -- taking less than three seconds to complete instead of
two to three hours with the previous systems. It is a 95 percent
reduction that has allowed KSM to improve its content management
capabilities and deliver better customer service.
"In the tax and accounting business, maximizing time spent on
productive billing is essential. Every second or hour of downtime
can cost the firm hundreds and thousands of dollars," said Darrell
Williams, director of Katz, Sapper & Miller's Information
System Department. "Not only were we impressed with the
simplicity and performance of FlexPod but the integrated components
have been a tremendous asset in helping us centrally manage all of
our data center requirements. With FlexPod, delays, downtime
and the costs associated with these problems are no longer an
issue. Our attention is now on our clients, and not business
issues."
City Council Cuts Energy Bill, Improves Capacity by 50%: Salford
City Council serves roughly 230,000 citizens from inner city,
residential and rural areas of the Greater Manchester region in the
northwest of England. The Council houses one of the most advanced
data center facilities by public sector standards, yet capacity
constraints were beginning to appear. Employees were consuming data
in new and different ways and departments were operating
independently and deploying their own IT equipment. This
fragmentation was leading to security and compliance issues. In
response, Salford City Council transitioned their traditional data
center to a community cloud based on FlexPod. This has enabled the
Council to establish a solid foundation for the delivery of cloud
services -- increasing its server capacity by 50 percent and
noticeably improving the speed and response of its applications --
while reducing its energy bill by 50 percent to date. Salford City
Council has also achieved a five-to-one reduction in data center
space requirement, providing the Council with room for additional
revenue generating hosting services.
"FlexPod has enabled us to develop a multitenant community cloud
platform providing services to the City Council, our partner
organizations and SME companies in the local area," said Jonathan
Burt, corporate infrastructure architect at Salford City Council.
"The validated design built on FlexPod has provided us with a
platform to deliver secure Infrastructure as a Service and
Software-as-a-Service offerings to different organizations
throughout Salford, whilst reducing our internal costs to the City
Council and supporting the local economy during significant cuts to
our funding."
German Stock Exchange Doubles Business Transactions: Based in
Germany, Boerse Stuttgart is Europe's leading stock exchange
organization for private investors. Boerse Stuttgart´s main
differentiator in the financial market is to execute orders with
speed and cost efficiency. Their IT strategy and goals are aligned
with these business requirements, with initiatives designed to
deliver cost-efficient, reliable and fast service-delivery. With
FlexPod, Boerse Stuttgart can now handle twice as many business
transactions as before and even unexpected events like massive
stock changes can be fulfilled with no influence on the quality of
the service-delivery.
"As Europe's leading stock exchange for private investors, it is
crucial not only to execute retail orders as fast as possible but
in a cost efficient way as well, " said Peter Litschel at Boerse
Stuttgart. "A shared infrastructure based on FlexPod enables us to
'bridge-the-cloud' and focus on our core business. With more than
one million tradable products we have to process a considerable
quantity of trading data. We can now trust that our operation is
efficient, fast and flexible. This allows us to focus on providing
retail investors with the financial services they need."
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About FlexPod FlexPod is a portfolio of prevalidated, integrated
infrastructure solutions that combine the Cisco Unified Computing
System™, Cisco Nexus data center switches, and NetApp storage
components, managed by Cisco UCS Director with a single console for
bare-metal and virtualized workloads. Cisco and NetApp developed
FlexPod to meet the demands of business leaders who need to
consolidate IT infrastructure, save energy costs, host more
applications, and share resources across different departments. 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. All FlexPod components are orderable from
their respective manufacturers' distribution or resale channel.
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