5/5 Stars

The simplicity of the FlexPod and how well it all works together with all the different systems really is a time saver.

One of the valuable features is that there is generally one throat to choke, if you will. If you have any problems you can talk to anybody and they'll understand the technical environment you are in, so it makes it easy to troubleshoot. Whether it's an implementation or a new feature you want to take advantage of, you're troubleshooting an actual problem.

Chris N.
IT Architect at Broncos football club

5/5 Stars

It has allowed us to expand our DR and backup strategies.

It has improved the way our organization functions tenfold. We can deploy servers, storage, and everything else quickly. When we need to expand, we can do that quickly as well. It's just easier all around.

Bryon F.
Principal Analyst at Muscogee Creek Nation Casinos

5/5 Stars

The stability of the solution is a key component for me; it has never gone down.

We have had two FlexPods for five years now. We're currently purchasing a third one. We have never had any problems with them in that time.

Alex P.
Network Systems Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

4.5/5 Stars

The hardware is so reliable and just easy to use.

The valuable features are just the simplicity of expanding the hardware when you need to and containerizing everything into a single platform.

Armond S.
Director of IT at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

4.5/5 Stars

It has helped my organization in terms of ease of deployment.

Pretty much a single phone number to call when there is a problem. Ease of use. Manageability for the storage system. It is valuable, because it is easy. Easy to use, so we don't spend a whole lot of time learning new products out there. That is a major plus.

SeniorSy4bfc
Senior Systems Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

5/5 Stars

It is a well-built and well-designed system.

It stays up and running and the network team doesn't get involved. I give it the highest rating.

Mike R.
Network engineer at Capital One

4.5/5 Stars

The FlexPod, with the UC chassis and the NetApp storage is perfect for us, we had no trouble.

Valuable Features - Resiliency: It's extremely fault tolerant so it's highly available. If one component fails, it's got a backup that will take over. Performance: FlexPod rocks. It's pretty powerful. And it helps when you have a FlexPod, all the workload's inside. There's no external things that can hurt it, except for itself.

Steve C.
Senior Systems Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

4.5/5 Stars

We are able to produce more with fewer resources.

I like how I can still automate, the API that you can do with FlexPod - you can work with it through API - which is what we have to have for our environment.

CloudEngf0aa
Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

4/5 Stars

It saves us a lot of money, time, and resources.

It's an integrated system with a single throat to choke for support. It's one phone call and if we believe it to be a Cisco problem, we call Cisco tech. If it turns out that it becomes a NetApp problem, then Cisco tech will engage the NetApp folks for support. It's a single phone call. We don't have to hang up and call the other and get into a finger pointing game. It is a time saver.

Joseph W.
Network infrastructure manager at Iberia Bank

5/5 Stars

From a management perspective, it is valuable in how we are managing the infrastructure.

That everything is on one box. I can do all my firmware upgrades easily, not like it was before, box by box by box, and it all ties into NetApp.

Darrell M.
Infrastructure Engineer at a energy/utilities company

4.5/5 Stars

FlexPod is absolutely uniquely valuable for oil and gas. The benefit is the speed, it's the performance.

We have remote users that will attach to the FlexPod and do their work from say, Houston, logging into Calgary or other places from outside of Calgary. It centralizes everything into our datacenter and it helps us manage it more easily.

Brad M.
Senior IT Analyst at a energy/utilities company

3.5/5 Stars

I can leverage its multiple storage features.

It provides us with a lot of agility, on-demand or through orchestrations. We deliver hundreds of servers. It has created a lot of agility in this environment.

Alok T.
It Managed Services Provider at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

4.5/5 Stars

With the validated designs and the support behind It, it's a great product.

Evan W.
Solution Architect at Charter

4.5/5 Stars

We can call one number for support, and everyone works together.

Drew B.
System Analyst at ONEOK, Inc.

4.5/5 Stars

The ability to converge a lot of different data and platforms into a single common platform, then scale horizontally and vertically.

John B.
Chief Technologist at Datalink, a division of Insight

4.5/5 Stars

It is a complete, holistic solution which is easily scalable.

Darin Z.
Service Delivery Architect at Premiercomm

4/5 Stars

The setup was fairly simple. I picked it up quickly. It was an easy deployment.

Taran N.
Data Center Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees