ESG was recently commissioned by Cisco and NetApp to validate the latest generation FlexPod powered by UCS M5 compute and NetApp AFF storage arrays. We validated and documented the savings and benefits that refreshing to the latest generation FlexPod can provide organizations through improved density and reduction in operating expenses.

Analysis revealed that the latest generation FlexPods provided customers with significant savings and benefits in the following categories:

• Infrastructure savings
• Administration savings 
• Improved business agility