7 November 2024, Thu |
2:48 PM
NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, and Cisco announced the evolution of FlexPod with the release of FlexPod® XCS, which provides a single automated platform for modern apps, data, and hybrid cloud services.
FlexPod is built on pre-validated Cisco and NetApp storage, networking, and server technologies. The new FlexPod XCS platform is intended to increase the speed with which current apps and data are delivered in a hybrid cloud environment. FlexPod XCS is the first hybrid cloud solution that is natively integrated across all three major public cloud providers. Furthermore, enterprises will be able to employ FlexPod-as-a-Service, a pay-as-you-grow pricing model for financial and operational flexibility.
“For years, FlexPod has been helping Presidio customers increase app performance, save software Capex, and decrease unplanned downtime incidents,” said Raphael Meyerowitz, vice president, Engineering at Presidio. “With FlexPod XCS, NetApp and Cisco are providing more flexibility, accessibility and scalability to our customers to deliver a seamless hybrid cloud experience.”
“It is great seeing Cisco and NetApp launching FlexPod XCS together in this hybrid cloud era,” said Jeffrey den Oudsten, Chief Technology Officer at Conscia Netherlands. “Standardization on FlexPod XCS brings rich technologies and huge benefits for us and our customers in various ways, with ability to deliver one point for billing, ordering, support and validated designs. Conscia is determined to facilitate the best hybrid cloud infrastructure for its customers, and together with Cisco and NetApp, we have the best-in-class technology partners helping us to deliver on that promise.”
FlexPod XCS streamlines hybrid cloud operations by enhancing accessibility and scalability, extending infrastructure from on-premises and edge standards to the hybrid cloud. This new service establishes the framework for future collaborative innovation that will bring innovative hybrid cloud, container, and contemporary workload solutions to market.
FlexPod XCS also allows IT departments to gain new insights with full-stack visibility and customized automation capabilities that increase operational productivity. The new FlexPod-as-a-Service consumption model enables customers to have more financial and operational flexibility by aligning costs based on usage.
“Our strategic relationship with NetApp continues to create value for businesses through deep technology integration aimed at solving our customers’ biggest challenges,” said Siva Sivakumar, Vice President, Cloud & Compute Product Management, Cisco. “FlexPod XCS powered by Cisco Intersight delivers key new capabilities for our customers such as automation, visibility and hybrid cloud operations into a single unified platform for modern apps, data, and hybrid cloud services.”
“We are proud of our continued innovation with Cisco as we expand FlexPod’s capabilities that solve for organizations’ unique business challenges,” said Mike Arterbury, Vice President, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure & OEM Solutions at NetApp. “Building on our twelve-year partnership with Cisco, FlexPod XCS combines our best-in-class technologies to simplify the delivery of data and applications, enabling enterprises to run new services more efficiently at the edge, core or in the cloud.”
FlexPod XCS provides a new set of capabilities to the FlexPod platform:
FlexPod® XCS is in preview for partners and customers and is expected to be generally available globally in mid-2022.
