Trilateral Collaboration Enables You to Imagine and Achieve Virtually Anything
Some relationships are really special. That’s how we feel about our solution partnerships with Cisco and VMware.
We have worked with Cisco and VMware for years to enable fully shared dynamic data centers that improve your asset utilization and lower capital and operational costs. Together, we help customers just like you take a more holistic approach to virtualizing almost everything. This simple approach helps you virtualize more than the standard 20–30% so you can share more resources and maximize cost savings. Through our trilateral collaboration in technology development, integration, and support services, we have helped reduce the risks typically associated with virtualizing your data center and making the transition to a cloud infrastructure.
It helps that our relationships are based on trust, integrity, communication, and collaboration rather than on marketing hype. Technologically, we also share a mutual commitment to a unified data center architecture and to Ethernet as a converged network. As a result, today only Cisco, NetApp and VMware can deliver a protected and highly flexible multi-tenant service-oriented infrastructure that addresses many of the key challenges you face every day.
Cisco, NetApp, and VMware have created a holistic approach that allows virtual servers, the Ethernet network, and the applications and data the network supports, to work together in the most efficient way possible. The common set of high-value solution partners we work with focus on and deliver this dynamic data center, with no competition for services and no fuzzy rules of engagement.
Cisco, NetApp, and VMware Can Help You Do More, Faster, for Less Money
Demands fly at you a mile a minute, making it hard for you to balance short- and long-term goals. You need highly responsive IT that helps you quickly react to changing business needs, without leaving you with a hairball of technologies.
A single, unified platform simplifies scaling so that you can meet peak and off-peak demand. By automating manual tasks, we enable a self-service model in which you or your users can easily add storage capacity or change to backup and recovery SLAs as needed. Plus, our joint, secure multi-tenancy solution enables separate applications or customers to safely share the same server, storage, and networking infrastructure with complete isolation so that sensitive information is never compromised. Together, our three companies give you the confidence you need to easily and more efficiently respond to rapidly changing business needs.
"T-Systems’ Dynamic Services deliver secure and reliable cloud services to our customers. With NetApp systems, NetApp MultiStore, Cisco Nexus products, and VMware, our data centers are able to provide shared, yet secure clouds of server, network, and storage resources."
—Klaus Rubik, Head of Engineering and Systems Management, T-Systems
"Tier 3’s mantra is virtualize, optimize, and above all simplify. With NetApp systems, NetApp MultiStore®, and VMware, we have transformed our data centers into shared, yet secure clouds of server, network, and storage resources."
—Jared Wray, Principal, Tier 3
Hear how our joint customers Mosaic and ExamWorks are lowering costs while providing agile IT resources to their customers.
Who doesn’t need or want to save money? Or streamline complexity? Or get more done in less time? But how can you balance the needs of one against a budget that covers the needs of many? All organizations can benefit in some way from improved efficiency. In IT, efficiency can make the difference between opening doors to funding for new projects and closing the door on new opportunities.
NetApp is the leader in storage efficiency. By working closely with our fellow leaders in server, storage, and networking virtualization, Cisco, NetApp, and VMware deliver compelling and more efficient virtualization and cloud computing solutions. With shared secure multi-tenancy, you can improve efficiency by securely sharing networking, server, and storage resources across customers or projects. Our collaboration delivers solutions and dynamic capabilities that enable you to buy 50% less storage guaranteed dramatically lower capital expenditures or operating costs, and maximize flexibility.
One of the reasons that Cisco, NetApp, and VMware make such wonderful solution partners is that we’re working together toward a common goal: your success (and, frankly, ours too). Particularly in today’s modern family-characterized by complex relationships and co-opetition-companies like Cisco, NetApp, and VMware prove that leading companies can effectively come together for the common good.
Trust is the foundation of a relationship. We don’t take that lightly. Cisco, NetApp, and VMware know that the trust you place in us can have far-reaching implications. We understand that a business relies on its IT department to provide the resources it needs to be more competitive or to pursue new market opportunity. That IT department, in turn, relies on a series of vendors. The strength of the relationship between that business unit and the IT team is directly impacted by the strength of the IT department’s relationship with its vendors—like us.
That’s why before we go public with information about a new relationship, we’ve already sat down with our solution partner(s) and identified where our vision, strategy, and goals, as well as our technology road maps, align, or can be aligned. We’ve started building, testing and qualifying solutions in real-world settings. By doing that, we can simplify and improve your experience working with us and maximize the value you ultimately receive from our solutions.
Our deep integration means customer service is relatively seamless. We call it joint support for a reason. If there is an issue—large or small—any one of us will step up to help out. For NetApp, it’s a fundamental part of our commitment to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Naturally, we love working with Cisco and VMware. And together we’ve developed some pretty innovative solutions that are jointly supported. But we believe you should have the flexibility to decide how these technologies and solutions get into your IT environment. We work with a bunch of really smart, innovative solution partners. In fact, this year Channel Insider recognized NetApp as a Bull’s Eye Award 2009 Champion for our work with Cisco and VMware to help VARs market and gain value through our dynamic data center initiative. So, chances are that our ecosystem already includes your favorite service delivery partner. If not, we’ll introduce you to one we love who has a proven track record.
Here at NetApp, we believe that the important measure of any relationship isn’t the handshake that begins it all or even the day-to-day activities with the solution partner(s), but rather the value customers like you realize from it. Our success (and, likewise, our failure) is 100% determined at our customers’ site, not at corporate headquarters or through marketing. So let us know how we’re doing. Join the discussion and tell us how our relationship with Cisco and VMware help you accomplish your team goals while liberating you and your people to go further, faster.
26 January, 2010
