Cloud computing is increasingly being investigated and adopted by companies with the goals of lowering costs, reducing time-to-market, and changing the pattern of IT investment.

Companies have also found that private clouds (infrastructure providing the cloud characteristics of self-service provisioning and de-provisioning of infrastructure on a real-time basis deployed within the corporate firewalls or data centers) help them achieve their goals while eliminating the inherent security, governance, cost and service-level risks associated with public cloud providers.

Sirius worked with NetApp and Cisco to bring insights to cloud environments specific to companies with global development and testing efforts. Based on a live implementation at Tripwire, Sirius, NetApp and Cisco make the benefits of Flexpod solutions shine in a real IT environment.

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The FlexPod solution with VMware vSphere is an integrated solution of hardware and software components from NetApp, Cisco and VMware that provides the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure. It allows a company to achieve the goal of self-service infrastructure provisioning on a real-time basis deployed within the corporate firewalls and data center.

In particular, the FlexPod solution has been found to be exceptionally effective for companies that require extensive development and test environments, and have test and development resources deployed around the world.