Voice of a FlexPod Customer: Bringing Stability and Resilience to IT
Natalia Eichinger
Stability and Resilience for IT and Data Center Management
Review from a FlexPod Customer
One of the most consequential IT projects you can undertake today is to digitally transform your approach to data center management. But a digital transformation can be tricky to pull off. Not only do you need to know where your current approach falls short, you also have to understand what it takes to adopt a better one.So how do you do it? By starting out with a bit of unbiased feedback from your peers. That’s why we launched this new blog series highlighting reviews by verified customers of ours on IT Central Station.
This time, we discuss how the FlexPod® data center solution from NetApp and Cisco helped a customer working for the federal government bring stability and resilience improvements to their IT environment.
About the Reviewer
This reviewer is a network engineer at a large tech services company that does work for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a federal government agency. Their primary use case is cloud services.What They Gained with FlexPod
FlexPod has introduced amazing gains in both stability and resilience to this reviewer’s IT environment.Calling it a “very stable and resilient” solution, they detailed how FlexPod gives them the dependability they need to run their diverse, demanding workloads in the cloud—and the efficiency to reduce the time required for deploying new applications.
“The solution's infrastructure enables us to run mission-critical workloads. I do work for the Department of Homeland Security. We have a lot of critical applications.”
But that’s not all. Thanks to the power of automated management from FlexPod, they’ve also been able to increase staff productivity and streamline overall IT administration.
What the Initial Setup Looked Like
How was the initial setup process? In a word: straightforward. They reported no obstacles at all.Parting Thoughts
It’s hard to overstate the remarkable impact FlexPod’s stability and resilience has had on this reviewer’s IT environment. Not only did they gain the reliability needed to run their mission-critical workloads, they also cut inefficiencies out of the application deployment process.
“We have found the solution to be resilient…[It] reduces the time required to deploy a new application.”
And by leveraging FlexPod automation, they have made sweeping staff productivity improvements and administrative efficiency upgrades. Now, they’re ready to take on the future.
On a scale from 1 to 10, they rated FlexPod an impressive 9.
To see the complete review, visit IT Central Station
For more FlexPod customer reviews, read the blog.
Natalia Eichinger
Natalia is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Enterprise Storage at NetApp. She is primarily responsible for the planning and execution of the on-premises product portfolio, playing a crucial role in bringing products to market. Before joining NetApp, Natalia worked at Microsoft, where she performed various roles in marketing, engaged with technical audiences, and managed multiple product portfolios.
