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FlexPod

: Where converged meets cloud

FlexPod is a secure, smart, sustainable, hybrid-ready platform engineered to transform infrastructure and operations. FlexPod unites innovative compute, storage, networking, and management to help you accelerate delivery of modern workloads, future-proof your environments, and optimize resources to maximize efficiency.

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What is FlexPod?

FlexPod is the converged infrastructure  of compute, storage, and networking in the data center. The deployment of data center infrastructure as a complete system  simplifies and accelerates the deployment of resources in a secure, smart, sustainable, and hybrid-ready platform for all your workloads.

  • Secure - A platform you can trust
  • Smart - Simplify with a flexible, intelligent platform
  • Sustainable - Modernize today to protect tomorrow

By the numbers

    • 20%

    • time savings in network management and maintenance

    • $3MM

    • cost savings in hardware refresh and infrastructure costs after FlexPod implementation

    • 4x

    • reduction in downtime
A platform you can trust

Integrating security at every level of infrastructure and operations.
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Simplify with a flexible, intelligent platform

Quickly design, scale, and deploy FlexPod with our growing portfolio of tested and documented reference architectures.
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Modernize Today to Protect Tomorrow

Support sustainability goals with recycled materials, high-efficiency components, takeback programs, and seamlessly transition to future technologies with modular systems.
  • Learn how FlexPod drives sustainability

I can do just about anything storage related to it. In a FlexPod environment, we can provide whatever you want from a data storage perspective. Replication, backup, disaster recovery, etc., are all right there out of the box.

Senior Systems Engineer at a Tech Services Company

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FlexPod equals fast data storage

Speed on the track is a must. It’s why the AMF1 team chose FlexPod. The leading solution from NetApp and Cisco provides the necessary technological horsepower to enable the best on-track performance.
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Our comprehensive portfolio of FlexPod reference architectures

FlexPod is supported by a growing portfolio of reference architectures combining NetApp storage, Cisco Nexus/MDS networking, UCS compute, and Intersight cloud operations platform.
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Oracle

Deliver projects up to 30% faster, and optimize your Oracle Database.

Read the case study

SAP

Accelerate every app in your SAP landscape without disruption, lower license costs, and dramatically improve TCO. Get up to 125% ROI and payback in 13 months—just like these customers who chose FlexPod to run their SAP apps.

Read the customer success story

SQL

Get up to 250% faster page response times and a 3x performance boost.

Download the IDC Paper

VDI

Scale without disruption, increase reliability and security, and lower operational costs.

Read the customer reference

AI/ML

Run Enterprise and FlexPod AI apps side by side.
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VMware

Lower your VMware solution deployment times with less risk.
  • See the Top 10 Reasons for FlexPod
FlexPod EPIC

Get your FlexPod EPIC workload up and running faster with a solution that is engineered for success.
  • View the reference architecture
OpenStack

Lean into a modern OpenStack platform with industry-leading cloud connectivity.
  • View the OpenStack-FlexPod design

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NetApp + Cisco

FlexPod: Built on a growing portfolio of reference architectures combining NetApp AFF storage, Cisco Nexus/MDS networking, UCS compute, and Intersight cloud operations platform. 
  • Explore the FlexPod 3D Tour
FlexPod reference architectures

Find the component, implementation, and configuration detail you need to deploy FlexPod solutions with confidence.
  • View the FlexPod design guides
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See how FlexPod quickly leverages ONTAP innovation

FlexPod leverages ONTAP storage that provides an industry-leading hybrid cloud experience, with data protection, scale, reliability and flexibility from the edge to the cloud.
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