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NFLEX: FULFILLING
THE PROMISE
OF CONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURE
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Executive summary
Converged Infrastructure (CI) was full of promises.
Some kept, and some never fully realized. Today, CI
continues to provide the backbone to many data
centers and provide a natural pathway to future
hybrid cloud infrastructures.
of technologies with industry-leading benchmarks in
server and flash performance.
Converged Infrastructure continues to grow and
now maintains a large share of Tier 1 application
deployments in the marketplace.
Introduction
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Data center administrators have been successful
with the complete flexibility of today’s CI solutions,
but they are enamored with the promise of HCI
simplicity. NFLEX fills the gap with a Converged
Infrastructure solution designed to increase simplicity
within a framework of flexibility, with the confidence
of factory integration.
Fujitsu and NetApp are working together to deliver
premier Converged Infrastructure based on industry
standard technology leadership and unparalleled
innovation, taking advantage of over twenty years
of successful co-innovation. NFLEX is built on a core
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NFLEX leverages the value of today’s Converged
Infrastructure with the added promise of simplicity.
Converged Infrastructure was designed with
efficiency in mind, both from a technical standpoint
as users looked to automate their IT processes across
components. And, from a business standpoint, CI
can deliver cost and manageability efficiency by
driving expenses down thanks to greater utilization
and decreased physical hardware needs. In addition,
the evolution of virtualized environments controlled
via a single console was intended to help drive
management efficiency for CI. n
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