SUNNYVALE, Calif.-May 16,
2011-NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that the
company has joined Microsoft Corp.'s Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track
program with a validated data center architecture design that
simplifies private cloud deployment and
operations. The NetApp® Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco
data center architecture design helps customers accelerate their
business by enabling IT to rapidly respond to changing business
needs while providing application availability and improving
management efficiencies through automation.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Validated through the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program, the
NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco data center architecture
design helps customers reduce infrastructure and application
deployment time from days to hours while helping them achieve
greater utilization of their physical and virtual resource
pools.
- The NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco data center
architecture design uses Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 and
Microsoft System Center, a common management platform to help ease
management and enable automation and self-service provisioning of
the entire private cloud infrastructure, including features such as
automated self-service provisioning via native Opalis Integration
Packs.
- Built on a flexible,
shared
infrastructure, the NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco
design is a tested data center architecture that can scale
vertically or horizontally. The architecture design is comprised of
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers and Cisco Nexus
switches; Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 and Microsoft System
Center components, including Microsoft System Center Virtual
Machine Manager, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager,
Microsoft System Center Service Manager, and Opalis Integration
Server; and NetApp unified storage systems running Data
ONTAP®, with a software bundle that includes the NetApp
OnCommand™ 3.0 plug-in for Microsoft. (The NetApp OnCommand
3.0 plug-in is slated to be available in August 2011; the rest of
the solutions are available today.)
QUOTES:
- Mitch Kitay, vice president of Advanced Data Solutions,
Terremark
"NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco has helped us achieve
high levels of efficiency and density per rack and lower-cost
operations. The common management framework supports larger
multi-tenant deployments without needing to add more staff, while
integration with Cisco UCS and Microsoft Hyper-V provides
high-scaling capabilities that allow us to deliver resources for
the wide variety of enterprise workloads and applications run by
our customers. By providing flexible and efficient services, we're
helping our customers be competitive while accelerating our own
success."
- Soni Jiandani, senior vice president, Server Access and
Virtualization Technology Group, Cisco
"With this validated architecture design, customers can confidently
take advantage of the Cisco Unified Computing System and the NetApp
infrastructure to accelerate their journey to the private
cloud."
- Mike Schutz, senior director of Windows Server
Marketing at Microsoft Corp.
"We developed the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program to help our
customers accelerate private cloud deployments and enable them to
reap the benefits of IT flexibility, increased agility, and lower
costs. The combination of Cisco and NetApp provides orchestration
and automation capabilities, and is directly in line with our
vision to provide our customers with a broad choice of
pre-validated infrastructures that can help them deploy private
cloud architectures with confidence."
- Phil Brotherton, vice president and general manager of
the Microsoft Business Unit at NetApp
"Working with Cisco and Microsoft, NetApp continues to deliver on
our commitment to helping our customers achieve greater flexibility
and efficiencies at lower costs. This collaboration enables us to
deliver a private cloud that paves the
way for customers to transition to a shared IT infrastructure that
helps them be ready
for the future and use IT as a tool to capitalize on new growth
opportunities."
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