It’s been one year since Cisco & NetApp launched FlexPod, a modular cloud platform designed to accelerate our customers’ evolution from traditional IT infrastructure silos to a shared, virtualized infrastructure. While ‘virtualized infrastructure stacks’ is the IT industry’s product offering du jour, there are three key areas where FlexPod truly differentiates … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday FlexPod, You’re Off to a Great Start!
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Cisco Live Q&A – Cisco’s David Antkowiak on Putting the Flex in FlexPod
In November of 2010, Cisco and NetApp along with VMware launched the FlexPod, our pre-validated, cloud platform. Since it's release 8 months ago, the FlexPod program has been an overwhelming success. We are continuing to enhance and grow the platform, by adding new partners who focus on delivering cloud based solutions, aiding our distributors to have enhanced their FlexPod … [Read more...] about Cisco Live Q&A – Cisco’s David Antkowiak on Putting the Flex in FlexPod
Cisco Live Q&A – EMC vSpecialists Tee Glasgow, Scott Lowe, Rick Scherer & Nick Weaver
As Cisco Live comes to a close I was able to sit down with some good friends in the vSpecialist organization at EMC to share their perspectives on Cisco Live and the adoption of Cloud computing. Joining me this morning is (from left to right):Rick Scherer - VCDX, Author of VMwareTips.com and vSpecialist at EMC.Tee Glasgow - Former WAN Engineer, UNIX SysAdmin, Solaris bigot, … [Read more...] about Cisco Live Q&A – EMC vSpecialists Tee Glasgow, Scott Lowe, Rick Scherer & Nick Weaver
Cisco Live : Blogger Techminute with NetApp on Flexpod Solutions
Check out the great conversation I had with Abhinav Joshi of Cisco and Joe Onisick of WWT around our partnership, FlexPod, SMT, Automation, CVDs, and enabling partners. Thanks to Didier Rombaut of Cisco and Friea Berg of NetApp for bringing us together for this conversation. … [Read more...] about Cisco Live : Blogger Techminute with NetApp on Flexpod Solutions
Cisco Live Q&A – Natalie Lambert of Citrix on Desktop Virtualization Trends, Obstacles, and Opportunities
Last September Cisco and Citrix announced the first desktop virtualization Cisco Validated Design (CVD) to help customers implement standard, repeatable architectures for XenDesktop with NetApp storage. Many saw this as an indicator that desktop virtualization was (finally!) reaching a tipping point, a perception strengthened with Cisco’s November launch of its Virtualization … [Read more...] about Cisco Live Q&A – Natalie Lambert of Citrix on Desktop Virtualization Trends, Obstacles, and Opportunities