GEC NEWS WIRENew initiative makes it easy for customers to gain performance, agility, economic benefits of CI for enterprise database, virtual environments
Customers recognize that flash equals speed. But as all-flash array pricing has come down, there’s a growing recognition that flash provides significant management benefits as well. Cisco and NetApp have seen FlexPod partner and customer enthusiasm grow for the performance, agility and economic benefits of the all-flash data center.
“FlexPod with All-Flash FAS is a natural fit for converged infrastructure since it simplifies data management,” said Lee Caswell, vice president, Product, Solutions and Services Marketing at NetApp. “In a world of limited IT skills, the all-flash FlexPod allows users to focus on high impact work and makes storage performance tuning a thing of the past.”
With the FlexPod Advantage initiative, NetApp and Cisco are enabling partners to help customers accelerate their journey to a modern data center. The solution is ideal for enterprises looking to consolidate mixed workloads and protocols across flash, disk and cloud resources.
“We believe that FlexPod utilizing the latest Cisco UCS servers, Nexus 9K switches, Cisco ACI, and NetApp All-Flash FAS can deliver new levels of performance and create a modern technology foundation to meet the demands of business critical applications,” said Dhritiman Dasgupta, Vice President of Product Marketing at Cisco.
