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NextiraOne UK achieves FlexPod Premium Partner status, delivering Solutions Based on FlexPod Design Architecture
January 2013 by Marc Jacob
NextiraOne UK announced that it has been designated a FlexPod Premium Partner by Cisco and NetApp to provide solutions and services supporting the FlexPod data centre solution. As a FlexPod Premium Partner, NextiraOne is recognised for its advanced competencies in supporting customers as a trusted adviser in deploying FlexPod solutions.
FlexPod is a pretested and validated solution that combines networking, computing, and storage in a shared infrastructure and supports multiple applications and workloads to help customers accelerate and simplify their transition to the cloud.
As a channel partner of Cisco and NetApp, NextiraOne will be able to assist customers with implementing and configuring virtualised data centre solutions based on the validated FlexPod shared infrastructure, as well as help customers develop and adhere to best practices for building and managing best-in-class solutions from Cisco and NetApp. The flexible, scalable shared infrastructure is pretested to lower deployment risk, increase data centre efficiencies, and create a flexible information technology (IT) environment to build a private cloud.
NextiraOne is a long-standing partner of Cisco, NetApp and VMware and delivers powerful Data Centre solutions for a wide range of customers in the public and private sector, including Howdens Joinery, legal services firm Blake Lapthorn and North Bristol and James Paget NHS Trusts.
[NextiraOne will be demonstrating this and other leading technologies at the forthcoming Cisco Live! 2013 event at the Excel Centre in London, between 28th January and 1st February 2013.]
Cisco and NetApp’s FlexPod is a validated shared infrastructure that features the Cisco UCS® server, Cisco network switches, NetApp® unified storage systems running on Data ONTAP® software. The design architecture has been jointly tested and validated as a Cisco Validated Design, so NextiraOne can quickly assess customer needs and deploy integrated solutions from Cisco and NetApp that meet the stringent requirements of their dynamic data centres.
