FlexPod innovation with new ONTAP storage solutions
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Anand Louis
FlexPod® is the proven converged solution platform for customers worldwide to run their businesses. NetApp and Cisco continue to accelerate FlexPod innovations with new technologies to deliver enhanced performance, capacity, and flexibility. Innovations that help customers optimize their IT infrastructure, power enterprise application and modern workloads, and simplify operations across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
In January, FlexPod welcomed the new Cisco UCS X-Series and C-Series M7 servers. Customers can easily upgrade their existing FlexPod units to harness the improved performance and efficiency of UCS M7 servers to meet the demand of the increasingly dynamic workloads. With Cisco Intersight, support for UCS M7 servers is fully integrated into FlexPod management operations and policies.
New ONTAP storage solutions
Now, FlexPod is raising the bar again with the new NetApp® AFF C-Series and AFF A150 storage systems. These new storage solutions are powered by the industry-leading NetApp ONTAP® software, and they enjoy the same advanced data management services and native hybrid cloud connectivity as existing AFF and FAS storage solutions.
Customer benefits
With these FlexPod innovations from NetApp and Cisco, customers can optimize their IT environments and increase investment protection to address critical business challenges.
- Proven and trusted FlexPod converged architecture is highly scalable, versatile, and resilient for enterprise and modern applications.
- Integrated and validated infrastructure enables IT to deploy solutions across edge, core, and cloud quickly and reliably.
- Rich data management services, built-in ransomware detection, data protection, and disaster recovery capabilities are crucial for safeguarding companies’ digital assets.
- Centralized management with Cisco Intersight simplifies IT operations and increases efficiency and availability.
- FlexPod is hybrid cloud ready with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The cloud integration allows customers to leverage hybrid cloud resources rapidly as needed to support evolving business initiatives.
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Anand Louis
Anand Louis is a Principal Product Manager for FlexPod at NetApp’s Hybrid Cloud Group. He is currently responsible for FlexPod XCS, joint Cisco & NetApp solution, built on Cisco Intersight. Prior to NetApp, Anand has held positions in product management, sales enablement and marketing teams at high-tech companies including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks.
