IT Infrastructure That Grows with Your Business. With FlexPod, you only invest in the infrastructure that you require, while FlexPod allows simple and rapid scaling by simply adding incremental capacity as your business grows.
Video Overview: FlexPod Data Center Infrastructure
FlexPod is a flexible data center infrastructure that accelerates application deployment, reduces IT risk, increases your agility, and grows with your business.
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The Speed of Business Demands a More Complete Data Center Solution
Businesses continue to exert pressure on IT to be faster and reduce costs. However, the majority of IT budgets are spent on maintaining equipment, leaving only a small amount for new projects and innovation. In cases in which IT has the funds to deploy new systems, it typically takes them weeks, if not months, of design, planning, procurement, deployment, and testing to do so.
To reduce the time and cost of deploying infrastructure and applications, companies are adopting a converged infrastructure approach. According to one industry analyst, “In a few years, we’ll move away from people buying the piece parts... Whatever they buy has to be designed and tested to work together.” By deploying converged solutions that leverage shared resources, IT teams are slashing design, planning, and testing phases by months.
Enterprises and service provider's alike need tested, documented, and supported infrastructure solutions that support both virtualized and non-virtualized environments. They seek solutions that can leverage existing IT investments, be managed with existing frameworks and tools, and scale without disruption to meet future growth and organizational objectives.
The FlexPod® data center platform, jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco, is a flexible converged infrastructure platform composed of pre-validated storage, networking, and server technologies. It’s designed to increase IT responsiveness to business needs, while reducing the overall cost of computing with maximum uptime and minimal risk.
a) Investment Protection with Standardized, Flexible IT - Together, NetApp and Cisco offer a data center platform that’s ready for virtualized environments, yet is flexible enough to grow at your own pace to a fully private cloud. The FlexPod unified architecture runs multiple workloads on all protocols and fits right into your current infrastructure. Leveraging FlexPod components are integrated and standardized to help you achieve timely, repeatable, consistent deployments that eliminate guesswork and minimize risk. As a result, you can understand and better predict the exact power, floor space, usable capacity, performance, and cost of each FlexPod deployment.
b) Scalability for Any Cloud Solution - FlexPod is offered in three solution categories that are designed to meet your specific capacity and performance requirements. FlexPod Express is ideal for midsized businesses and branch offices. It can be used as a cost-effective starting point for infrastructure consolidation and virtualization solutions. FlexPod Datacenter is suited for large enterprises and cloud service providers with mature IT processes and rapid growth expectations and who want to deploy a highly scalable shared infrastructure for multiple business-critical applications. FlexPod Select supports environments with a need for high-performance computing or very large data capacity, including big data analytics, scientific computing, and dedicated application optimization. Any of the FlexPod solutions can be scaled up or out and duplicated in modular fashion to fit your future growth needs. They can also scale to a larger FlexPod configuration with a clearly defined upgrade path that leverages all existing components and management processes.
c) Proven Across a Broad Range of Environments - FlexPod has been pretested and jointly validated with popular hypervisors, oper operating systems, applications, and infrastructure software, including VMware vSphere, VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle (RAC, JD Edwards, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM Server), SAP, Microsoft® Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint, Microsoft Private Cloud, Hortonworks Data Platform, Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop, NetApp SnapProtect™ technology, and Cisco® Nexus® Data Center switches.
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