Cisco and NetApp have been innovating together around the FlexPod platform for more than 10 years, with an eye to continuously integrating the best technologies of these industry-leading companies. To date we have delivered 170+ Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) for FlexPod.

It is truly remarkable how the singular FlexPod platform architecture continues to deliver value for the many use cases that customers care about, including databases; server or desktop virtualization; hybrid cloud; secure multitenancy, and business continuity.

In the past, many looked at FlexPod as an on-premises-only platform, with compute and networking managed by Cisco UCS Manager and storage arrays managed by ONTAP; but today customers want even more. Inspired by the cloud-world we all live in, FlexPod customers also want simplified provisioning and operation of their hybrid IT environments.

In response, Cisco and NetApp are tightly integrating ONTAP, NetApp