Winning with FlexPod! Flashcards
As of Oct 8th — how many FlexPod customers does NetApp have?
2800!
What is the worlds most deployed integrated infrastructure?
FlexPod!
How many FlexPod partners does NetApp have worldwide?
900+!
How many FlexPod validated architectures do we currently have?
40+!
What components make up a FlexPod?
Compute (UCS), Network (Nexus) and Storage (storage)
What is EMC’s solution?
VCE (Vmware, Cisco, EMC)
Why is the VCE NOT flexible?
EMC VCE solutions come in 3 flavors: small, medium and large. All of which require complete forklifts to move between and customers need to leverage EMC PS to instrument changes to each environment. Very expensive and not flexible.
What 3 ways are customers addressing cost and operational pressures?
Clouds Services, Open Source and Converged Infrastructure (FlexPod)
IT management AND administration is outpacing the actual HW/SW costs by:
1x? 2x? 3x? or 4x?
4X! This is why converged infrastructure is so key! NetApp FlexPod helps customers in a BIG way!
FlexPod Accelerates the transformation from infrastructure SILOs to a _____, shared environment with _____, standardized, ______ building blocks!
virtualized
prevalidated
scalable
Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) server systems, which provide ______, _______ compute with an open ____ and support for ______ tools.
programmable
virtualized
API
Orchestration
FlexPod stands apart from similar solutions thanks to truly _____ storage that can be _____ into _____ and ______ managed.
Unified
virtulized
pools
nondisruptively
“CI” is short for:
Converged Infrastructure
With FlexPod, customers _____ the amount of planning, procuring, deploying and testing by ___.
Reduce
50%!
FlexPod is the _____ button for IT infrastructure!
Fast Forward
Use FlexPod (CI) to:
Reduce the cost of IT
Rapidly respond to business needs
Reduce Project risk and infrastructure complexity