In a world where yesterday's IT practices can
no longer affordably cope with the new realities of growth and pace
of business, Flexible IT from NetApp and our solution partners
enables IT to provide affordable, always-ready IT at the speed of
today's business decisions.
Flexible IT enables you to capitalize on new
opportunities, get to market faster, innovate, and get out in front
of your competition. Flexible IT helps you make your customers
happier by delivering better, higher quality IT services faster.
Learn how companies like Cartika and T-Systems deliver enterprise-grade scalability and
high service levels at lower costs with Flexible IT.
Flexible IT also enables you to save time and
increase efficiencies. Projects such as provisioning, recovery,
backup, and test and development can take less time, effort, and
money, delivering savings that drop right to the bottom line. Learn
how Tucson Electric Power supported exponential storage
growth with its more Flexible IT environment, increased its
efficiency and drove down costs.
Flexible IT architecture is built on a shared
IT infrastructure characterized by the following key criteria:
- Unified Architecture: Use one architecture for all
workloads
- Intelligent Caching: Optimize cost performance by workload
- Secure Multi-Tenancy: Securely isolate shared storage
- Scale Up and Scale Out: Scale performance and capacity on
demand
- Service Automation and Analytics: Reduce complexity and enable
IT as a service
- Nonstop Operations: Provide continuous data availability for
all tenants
- Integrated Data Protection: Provide seamless protection for
backups and disaster recovery
- Storage Efficiency: Experience built-in efficiency at every
step
Keep these key buying criteria in mind when you're ready to
embrace Flexible IT. The investments you make in IT today position
your company for the future. Today's virtualization
technology, cloud-based IT
services, cost containment, and green IT initiatives all
require storage that is more adaptable than ever before.
If you want your IT to have a measurable
impact by aligning to business needs, accelerating business, and
driving revenue while reducing costs, it's time for Flexible
IT.
Learn more about building future-ready, Flexible
IT based on a shared IT infrastructure for maximum flexibility and
efficiency. Be sure to check out our video on demand, "Make
the Leap to a Shared IT Infrastructure".
If you're ready to get started, contact your
local NetApp representative or one of
our many qualified partners.
Please also join the conversation about
shared IT infrastructure and Flexible IT in our communities.