Cisco and NetApp FlexPod expanded family of products
Cisco and NetApp expanded family of products FlexPod, entering it with new designs for the whole portfolio. The most important of them - FlexPod Select - designed for dedicated work tasks, providing data-intensive. Now, in a family of solutions includes the following products FlexPod: FlexPod Datacenter (formerly known as FlexPod), is designed to support enterprise data centers and service providers; FlexPod Express (formerly known as ExpressPod) for small and medium-sized businesses and divisions of large companies, as well as for FlexPod Select intensive data processing. A joint statement issued said that FlexPod satisfy the growing need for integration of storage, networks, applications, and analytical systems (such as big data) into a single system with a higher level of automation technologies that can increase efficiency and reduce operating costs .
New Offers Cisco and NetApp are based on a common vision and strategy that the unification of the infrastructure of corporate offices, data center support, service providers and dedicated applications. FlexPod Select - the first solution in the portfolio FlexPod, supporting targeted job tasks - namely, the work of high-performance applications. At the initial stage, this category of products will be able to handle large volumes of data in a Hadoop applications for Big Data, working in the field of financial services, government agencies, as well as the retail, manufacturing and other markets. part of a family includes FlexPod Select Storage NetApp E -Series and FAS, servers, Cisco UCS C-Series, Cisco Nexus switches and management software from, Cisco.
All these products are incorporated into a single architecture. FlexPod Select - the first solution from the portfolio of FlexPod, using the (optional) proprietary platform NetApp E-Series, which improves performance, density and modular flexibility of a wide range of applications that process large amounts of data. Solution FlexPod Select with the Hadoop (also the first in a portfolio FlexPod) minimizes the risk of the introduction of the analytical platform Hadoop open source, checking its components, such as storage, computing, network connections, and system management. FlexPod Select a Hadoop system is available in two configurations.
One of them - FlexPod Select with Cloudera Distribution and Apache Hadoop (CDH), the other - FlexPod Select from Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). Both configurations support the accelerated deployment of Hadoop environments highly available enterprise-class architecture of FlexPod Select. Additionally, Cisco and NetApp are launching FlexPod Datacenter solution with the SnapProtect for full backup and data recovery in a "disk to disk to tape" (D2D2T) and support for such popular solutions such as VMware, NAS, and Microsoft Exchange.
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