FlexPod XCS Use of Solution

John Kevin

Deputy IT Manager at MBBank

We have been using it since 2019. So, it has been four years since we started using it.

Chris Haight

Sr. Solutions Architect at CDW Canada Inc.

Cisco UCS came out in 2009 and I have been on the scene since. FlexPod came next enhancing the UCS offering with a marriage of UCS and NetApp storage.

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reviewer2304780

Infrastructure Lead at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

I have been using it for over six years.

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Christian Schuster

Solution Designer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are a system integrator who does multiple projects as well as supporting our customers. We have been doing this for about four to five years.

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Bob Greenwald

Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have been using FlexPod for six years. I'm in my seventh year now.

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Carlos Fafetine

Director of Product and Customer Management Services at CEDSIF - Ministry of Finance

I have been working with the product for 11 years.

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Joshua Maurer

FlexPod Architect

I've been using the solution since 2012.

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Neil Bembridge

IT Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We've been using FlexPod for about eight years.

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reviewer1900290

Sysadmin at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

I have been using it for about 10 years altogether. Since we have been using NetApp and Cisco devices for several years. Since FlexPod has been available, we have been using it.

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Sarthak Bhutani

Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have been using it for somewhere around three to four years.

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reviewer1709097

Director of Board at a training & coaching company with 51-200 employees

I started using FlexPod in 2017, and the last time I used it was in January 2022.

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reviewer1900272

Engagement Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I've been using FlexPod for more than five years.

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reviewer1900278

Network Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I used it at a previous job for about six months and we evaluated it at my current organization for 90 days.

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Adriano-Simao

Chief Technology Officer at Triana Business Solutions Lda

I've been using the solution since 2010.

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KyleKnox

Systems Engineer at First Ontario Credit Union

I have been using it at my current company for years. I also used it for about two years at another company before where I am now. View full review »

reviewer1223619

Senior Systems Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees

We have been using this solution for about eight years. View full review »

reviewer1223598

Cloud Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have been using this solution for six or seven years. View full review »

J. Kelly

Principal Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I just started working with it. I have only been with my company for about six weeks.

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reviewer1123188

Network Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

More than two years. View full review »

Architec69f5

Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Almost four years. View full review »

reviewer2304702

System Consultant at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have been using it for eight years.

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reviewer2304771

Storage Administrator at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have been using the product for ten years.

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David Rechsteiner

Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have been working with the product since September.

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Felipe Andrade

Virtualization/Storage Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

We have been using the solution for nine years.

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Ricardo Perazzolo

Service Delivery Director at VORTEX TI

I've been using FlexPod for ten+ years.

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Aklilu Shifera

Systems Engineer at Symbol Technologies PLC

We have been in this business for a few years, but I joined this company five years ago. I've been working with FlexPod since I started at the company. My first task was implementing a storage system using FlexPod for some university clients.

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reviewer1223496

Sr Systems Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

I have been using FlexPod for the last eight years.

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JustinMoses

Director of Data Center Operations at Barry University

We have been using this solution since 2003. View full review »

reviewer1223541

Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We put it in about two and a half years ago. View full review »

Mohit Mittal

AGM at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We've been using FlexPod for four or five months. View full review »

Darrell Monroe

Infrastructure Engineer at TechnipFMC

Between three and four years. View full review »

it_user979815

Senior Solution Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Three to five years. View full review »

EricKutyla

Senior System Administrator at Bell Canada

Trial/evaluations only. View full review »

Jegan Chinnu

Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

One to three years. View full review »

reviewer926175

Senior Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Three to five years. View full review »

SystemsA52a9

Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Three to five years. View full review »

SeniorIn5f65

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

One to three years. View full review »

Dan Scullen

Senior Systems Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton

More than five years. View full review »

Capacity532c

Capacity Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

One to three years. View full review »

SeniorSteee7

Senior Storage Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

More than five years. View full review »

Alan-Crouch

Senior IT Manager at Vocera

More than five years. View full review »

Will Bashlor

Manager of IT Services at a comms service provider

One to three years. View full review »

Virtuali7246

Virtualization Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

More than five years. View full review »

Casey Riffel

Lead of the Server and Storage Team at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

One to three years. View full review »

SystemsA3715

Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

More than five years. View full review »

Brian Foulks

System Engineer at Missile Defense Agency

Three to five years. View full review »

Tariq Ejaz

Systems Manager at Marcum

Three to five years. View full review »

Troy Brick Margelofsky

Solutions Architect Team Lead at CDW

More than five years. View full review »

Technica3f50

Technical Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Three to five years. View full review »

Jan Willem Varossieau

Consultant Technical at Vosko

One to three years. View full review »

Joseph Pontillo

Information Systems Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

One to three years. View full review »

DataCente1bb

Data Center Manager at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

Less than one year. View full review »

Alex Pop

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

Three to five years. View full review »

Ed Osterholt

Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

One to three years. View full review »

Kevin Henderson

Information Security Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

More than five years. View full review »

Sreenivas H

IT Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Three to five years. View full review »

Executivc4c1

Executive Director Of IT at a university

One to three years. View full review »

Technica2c2d

Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Three to five years. View full review »

SeniorSy9b41

Senior systems manager at a transportation company with 201-500 employees

More than five years. View full review »

Mark Reboli

Network/Telecom/IT Security Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

More than five years. View full review »

Infrastr4edd

Infrastructure Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Three to five years. View full review »

Aaron Hibbard

Senior Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

More than five years. View full review »

it_user870267

It Managed Services Provider at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

More than five years. View full review »

it_user319338

Director of Innovation at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Three to five years. View full review »

it_user865491

Senior Storage Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Less than one year. View full review »

it_user865494

Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Three to five years. View full review »

it_user252573

Information Technology Architect and Business Consultant

One to three years. View full review »

it_user862512

Private Cloud Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

More than five years. View full review »

it_user798375

PMO Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Less than one year. View full review »

it_user298266

Team Leader – Storage & Security at CoreLogic RP Data

About three years.

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it_user750741

Storage Consultant at Long View Systems

We've been using it more than five years.

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it_user527259

Director Of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using FlexPod since 2012.

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it_user750831

Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm

About six to eight months.

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it_user750810

Consultant at a tech services company

About five years now.

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it_user750768

Principal Storage Engineer at Digital River

Six or seven years.

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it_user750738

Principal Analyst at Muscogee Creek Nation Casinos

We have had it for six years.

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it_user750783

Group Leader at a consultancy

Probably two to three years.

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it_user750837

Server Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Three years.

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it_user318444

Advisory Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

About five years now.

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it_user750858

Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Two years.

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it_user750687

Storage Engineer at a financial services firm

The company was using it before I got there. I have been there for about four years, so at least four years.

I started working on NetApp products in 2008.

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it_user750648

It Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

About four months.

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it_user750624

Manager Infrastructure Services at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Two and a half years.

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it_user750825

Storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It's been six months, since it was implemented. Currently, we provide the back-end storage to the FlexPod.

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it_user750753

It Specialist at US EPA

Five and a half years.

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it_user750801

Senior It Analyst at a energy/utilities company

We've had FlexPod in our environment for, I would say about six to nine months. We brought it in to help one of our applications called Petrel. It's IO intensive. It's an application that petrophysicists use to look for oil. That's what they're using it for, so they need performance for projects.

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it_user750681

Server Engineer at Amtrust Financials

About three years.

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it_user750597

Systems Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

For the company it's going on two and a half years. And we're still deploying new ones out.

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it_user750813

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

We've been using FlexPods onsite for four to five years.

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System Engineer at Jones Walker Llp

About four years.

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it_user750843

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

About a year.

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it_user750846

Storage Admin at Tats Consultancy Services

In our environment FlexPod has been used for, I think, more than three years now.

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it_user750612

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

Since 2013.

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Admin at Tower International

My current company has used this solution prior to when I started. I have been working with it for two years.

At a previous company, I used it back in the mid-2000s when Cisco first started coming out with UCS. My previous company evaluated it then and implemented it with EMC along with NetApp to backup storage.

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Senior Engineer at Energysolutions

At least ten years, at this and another company.

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it_user750531

Storage Operator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Several months.

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it_user748320

Team Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

About three years.

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it_user699807

Network Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The All Flash FlexPod was deployed two years ago. We've been using that app with UCS for approximately six years. There was no down time for the All Flash. Maybe there was one day of down time for configuration or transition, but that's about it.

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it_user699801

Enterprise systems engineer

I've only been here for a year, and we've had it the entire year I've been here. In the last year, there's been no downtime due to the equipment.

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IT Architect at Broncos football club

We've been using NetApp since 2004, and we've evolved to FlexPod in 2009. I've been involved in the steps all the way, and we've had a great relationship with our integrators, NetApp in general, with Cisco, and VMware.

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SeniorSy9b41

Senior systems manager at a transportation company with 201-500 employees

We've had FlexPod for five to six years and we have not had any downtime.

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it_user699843

Director of technology with 10,001+ employees

We've been using for eight to ten years and we never had any downtime. It's been a great product for us.

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it_user699822

Exec director of enterprise it services

We have been using this going on four years.

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it_user692454

Senior systems admin

We have been using this solution for three years.

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it_user692457

Datacenter manager at Defenders

We have been using this for four years.

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it_user692451

IT Manager with 201-500 employees

We have been using it for two years now.

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it_user481791

Senior Customer Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have used this for the last four years.

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it_user527268

Manager of Systems Engineering at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using it for two years all over the place. We haven't had one UCS or NetApp hardware problem on any of the FlexPods the whole time.

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it_user527253

Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We’ve had it for three years.

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it_user527076

System Team Lead & IT Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using it for about three-and-a-half years.

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it_user527316

Senior Systems Engineer at McLean-Fogg

We've been using FlexPod for just over three years.

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it_user527208

Senior Sys Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using it for about a year and a half.

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it_user527067

Sr. SaaS Operation Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I have been using for the past year.

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it_user527265

Principal Architect at JWS Consult

We've been running it six years now.

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it_user527316

Senior Systems Engineer at McLean-Fogg

We have been using it for about three-and-a-half years.

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it_user332622

Network Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I've used it for one year.

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it_user330843

IT Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

We’ve been using it since 2009.

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it_user330312

IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I’ve been dealing with them for three to four years and its just sound equipment.

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it_user330300

IT - Server Operations at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using it about a year and a half.

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it_user330144

Sr. Systems Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have been using the components (VMware, Cisco and IBM) since 2001.

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it_user330117

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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it_user330111

Sr Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We’re still implementing it.

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it_user330093

Senior Systems Specialist - Lead Enterprise Storage Administrator at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using NetApp for over 10 years, almost 15 years at this point.

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it_user328077

Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We have been using it for three to five months.

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it_user330603

Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using and installing FlexPods for the past three years. I have installed FlexPods in multiple environments as well as with multiple models of hardware.

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