As it continues to expand its efforts around its cloud solution Intercloud, Cisco has announced several partnerships including Dimension Data and Sungard AS becoming Cisco Intercloud partners, and VCE and NetApp collaborating with Cisco on “Intercloud-ready” integrated infrastructure solutions.
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Cloud Storage Firm NetApp to Create 460 Jobs in $75M Data Center Build
July 23, 2012 — Cloud storage provider NetApp announced on Monday it is planning to create 460 new jobs by building a $ 75 million data center in Durham, North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park.
Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller Now Supports Cisco NetApp FlexPod
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud and data center management and automation provider Cloupia announced the general availability of the Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller that now supports the Cisco and NetApp FlexPod architecture.
The move comes a couple months after Cloupia expanded into Europe with the opening of its new London office.
Cloupia is a member of the NetApp Alliance Partner Program as a Cloud Management Partner.
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Cloud Hosting Firm PeakColo Joins NetApp Partner Program
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud computing company PeakColo (www.peakcolo.com) announced on Friday that it has joined the Partner Program for Service Providers operated by storage solutions vendor NetApp (www.netapp.com), giving it access to tools and best practices from the company, along with a more direct relationship with that company’s sales and engineering departments.
PeakColo says it delivers its infrastructure as a service cloud computing offerings to customers based, in part, on NetApp storage technologies. In the announcement, PeakColo says it offers those services in many cases as a white-label offering to service provider partners of its own, enabling them to resell cloud computing.
“PeakColo provides cost-effective public, private and hybrid cloud services to our direct and channel customers,” says Luke Norris, president and CEO at PeakColo, quoted in the company’s press release. “Our rational cost and high value model relies on industry-leading vendors for the design, deployment, and support of our model. NetApp storage and data management technologies boost the power of our infrastructure enabling us to deliver flexible, scalable and affordable virtualized cloud solutions in our SAS70 Type II, multi-facility environments”
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