Cisco and computer storage and data management company NetApp have partnered to introduce Cisco Validated Design (CVD) for the FlexPod shared infrastructure and Microsoft private cloud.
The new FlexPod validated with Microsoft private cloud builds on a reference architecture and is designed to reduce infrastructure and application deployment time while improving utilisation of physical and virtual resource pools.
Cisco and NetApp are working with Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet to expand its FlexPod Services to provide partners in the United States and Canada with the validated, pretested data centre application for the cloud.
The FlexPod validated shared infrastructure features the Cisco UCS server, Cisco network switches, NetApp unified storage systems running on Data ONTAP software, and the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track architecture with Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center.
Cisco Server Access Virtualization Technology Group vice-president Satinder Sethi said Microsoft customers can now use shared infrastructure and integrated management to complement Microsoft’s application insights.
