Cisco and NetApp Offer ExpressPod Data Center Package
Cisco and NetApp introduced a prepackaged and tested solution for small and medium-sized organizations that are beginning to virtualize their networking, storage, and computing environments.
The ExpressPod integrates Cisco UCS C-Series servers, NetApp FAS2220 or FAS2240 storage, and Cisco Nexus 3048 switches with infrastructure management. In addition, now features support and validation for VMware vSphere on NetApp Data ONTAP 8 operating in Cluster-Mode for supporting larger data centers. The storage pool resources can be dynamically allocated and securely isolated to support multi-tenancy.
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You just read about NetApp. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
SolidFire built Scale-out all-flash storage with guaranteed quality of service for cloud providers. What became of it?
SolidFire brought Scale-out all-flash storage with guaranteed quality of service for cloud providers to Storage. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by NetApp for US$870M. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside NetApp today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
