FlexPod Shipments Growing 81 Percent Annually to more than 4,100 Customers Across 100 Countries; Cisco and NetApp Align Technology Roadmaps to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption
SAN JOSE and SUNNYVALE, Calif. - June 25, 2014 - Cisco and NetApp today announced that the FlexPod integrated infrastructure solution has generated $3 billion in joint sales since its launch in 2010. FlexPod unit shipments have grown 81 percent year-over-year, with demand for FlexPod solutions now reaching a $2 billion annualized demand run rate.
By combining compute, networking and storage into a single system, integrated infrastructure provides the ability to dramatically improve the efficiency and agility of data center infrastructure, while reducing deployment risks. As a result, integrated infrastructure has emerged as one of the fastest growing segments of the IT infrastructure market.
Our partnership with Cisco on the FlexPod integrated infrastructure redefined how enterprises deployed private cloud infrastructure, said Tom Georgens, Chairman and CEO, NetApp. As the data center extends to include public cloud services for better economics and infinite scale, NetApp and Cisco are again leading the way, helping customers realize the transformative business benefits of hybrid cloud.
As CIOs look to simplify IT and focus on delivering business outcomes, there's been a major industry shift toward integrated infrastructure, said John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco. In 2010 Cisco and NetApp launched FlexPod to deliver a more efficient, agile data center infrastructure to customers. Together, we're evolving the FlexPod architecture together to help our customers unleash their applications and realize the promise of hybrid cloud environments.
FlexPod Momentum:
Worldwide Adoption: FlexPod is deployed with more than 4,100 customers and available in over 100 countries, an increase from 2,300 customers, and 70 countries last year.
Channel Acceleration: Critical to the success of FlexPod has been its popularity with channel partners. The FlexPod global reseller ecosystem continues to grow with more than 1,000 channel partners qualified to sell and support Cisco and NetApp technologies. These include 110 FlexPod Premium partners with the specialized skills to sell and support integrated infrastructure.
FlexPod Roadmap: As businesses embrace hybrid clouds to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver business-critical applications and services, Cisco and NetApp are aggressively integrating innovative technology into the FlexPod architecture, including Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco Intercloud Fabric, along with NetApp's clustered DATA ONTAP, Flash and cloud technologies.
Ecosystem Innovation: Technology partners have also contributed to the success of FlexPod, with key companies such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Citrix, F5, BridgeHead Software, Eaton, and Splunk, optimizing applications to run atop a FlexPod integrated infrastructure.
Building on Success: Today's news continues to deliver against the three-year plan announced by Cisco and NetApp in January 2013 to align technology roadmaps and address the next-generation cloud-integrated data center design. As part of this initiative, FlexPod will serve as the foundation for a virtualized, multi-tenant, cloud-ready data center.
Customer Momentum
U.S. Accounting Firm Attains 95% Faster Access to Customer Records: Katz, Sapper and Miller (KSM) is one of the top Certified Public Accountant (CPA) firms in the United States. In the tax and accounting business, maximizing time spent on productive billing is a major priority. With its data footprint growing at roughly 25 percent each year, KSM had outgrown its ve-year-old IT infrastructure. FlexPod Premium Partner Logicalis recommended a complete data center reinvention based on a FlexPod platform with VMware vSphere to vastly improve performance and virtually eliminate downtime. Now, customer records are instantly searchable-taking less than three seconds to complete instead of two to three hours with the previous systems. It is a 95 percent reduction that has allowed KSM to improve its content management capabilities and deliver better customer service.
In the tax and accounting business, maximizing time spent on productive billing is essential. Every second or hour of downtime can cost the firm hundreds and thousands of dollars, said Darrell Williams, director of Katz, Sapper & Miller's Information System Department. Not only were we impressed with the simplicity and performance of FlexPod but the integrated components have been a tremendous asset in helping us centrally manage all of our data center requirements. With FlexPod, delays, downtime and the costs associated with these problems are no longer an issue. Our attention is now on our clients, and not business issues.
City Council Cuts Energy Bill, Improves Capacity by 50%: Salford City Council serves roughly 230,000 citizens from inner city, residential and rural areas of the Greater Manchester region in the northwest of England. The Council houses one of the most advanced data center facilities by public sector standards, yet capacity constraints were beginning to appear. Employees were consuming data in new and different ways and departments were operating independently and deploying their own IT equipment. This fragmentation was leading to security and compliance issues. In response, Salford City Council transitioned their traditional data center to a community cloud based on FlexPod. This has enabled the Council to establish a solid foundation for the delivery of cloud services-increasing its server capacity by 50 percent and noticeably improving the speed and response of its applications-while reducing its energy bill by 50 percent to date. Salford City Council has also achieved a five-to-one
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FlexPod Shipments Growing 81 Percent Annually to more than 4,100 Customers Across 100 Countries; Cisco and NetApp Align Technology Roadmaps to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption 
