NetApp and Cisco this week unveiled a single, automated platform for modern applications, data, and hybrid cloud services, the FlexPod XCS, an evolution of the FlexPod platform.
FlexPod is made up of pre-validated Cisco and NetApp storage, networking and server technologies. The new FlexPod XCS platform is designed to accelerate the delivery of modern applications and data in a hybrid cloud environment. It is claimed to be the first and so far the only hybrid cloud solution natively integrated with all three major public cloud providers. In addition, organizations will be able to use FlexPod-as-a-Service, a pay-as-you-grow pricing model that provides financial and operational flexibility.
“For many years, FlexPod has been helping Presidio customers improve application performance, save software capital costs, and reduce unplanned downtime,” said Raphael Meyerowitz, vice president of engineering at Presidio. “With FlexPod, XCS NetApp and Cisco are providing our customers with more flexibility, availability and scalability to keep their hybrid cloud running smoothly.”
According to partners, FlexPod XCS simplifies the hybrid cloud experience by improving availability and scalability, extending infrastructure from standard consumer-side and cloud edge hosting to hybrid cloud. This new offering sets the stage for further collaborative innovation that will bring new hybrid cloud, container, and modern workload solutions to market.
FlexPod XCS provides hybrid cloud connectivity, end-to-end infrastructure automation across the lifecycle using Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator and NetApp automated scripts and workflows to simplify day-to-day IT operations, including configuring, deploying, expanding, utilizing, and optimizing infrastructure. Platform benefits include an enhanced and unified view of all FlexPod components with Cisco Intersight, and a reference architecture with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) instances on AWS: FlexPod XCS and ONTAP integration with automation through Cisco Intersight
The FlexPod XCS platform preview is currently only available to existing customers, with broad availability expected in mid-2022.
Source: ixbt
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