Cisco and NetApp Readying New, Cloudier Flexpods
November 3, 2013
Grazed from Datamation. Author: Pedro Hernandez.
Cisco and NetApp celebrated their three-year FlexPod partnership by teasing the cloud-enabled upgrades that that companies have planned for the platform. In a brief statement, the companies said that they are preparing "several technology enhancements to better enable IT and service providers to become cloud providers." FlexPod is an integrated system offering (compute, storage and networking) meant to speed IT infrastructure deployment and configuration in enterprise computing environments.
Their joint FlexPod solutions have caught the attention of data center operators, according to Marcus Phipps, senior manager of Data Center Solutions Marketing for Cisco. He noted in a blog post that during the past three years, "we’ve experienced some tremendous growth, more than doubling new installations year-over-year, and now we have more than 3,000 customers globally."…
Last year, the companies said they had attracted 1,300 to the platform by October. In January, they announced that they had 2,100 customers on board. ISI Group analysts Brian Marshall and Stephen Patel observed in a research note that gaining 800 new customers in just a few months suggested "strong momentum for FlexPod/ExpressPod has continued in recent months."…
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