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Cisco holds a number of CiscoLive events around the globe each year, and shares a wealth of knowledge about NetApp and FlexPod both online and at these events in the form of the “Featured Collateral” pages on their community forums. You can find an example of one of the Cisco event-based forums at CiscoLive 2011.

Featured NetApp and Flexpod Collateral

In the NetApp community forums, users can gain a solid overview of NetApp and FlexPod to better understand FlexPod strategy and architecture, as well as research a number of case studies and issues where they can understand real-life applications of FlexPod.

We’d also recommend reading up on these few PDF’s both in the community forums and on the ConRes website if you’re new to NetApp and FlexPod:

• NetApp: At A Glance: A corporate snapshot of NetApp: Here you can learn about NetApp customers, the culture and values they represent, and strategic partnerships.

• Cloud Computing Best Practices: An overview of building a secure, flexible, and scalable data center to support cloud computing, including the leading solution framework FlexPod.

• FlexPod Solutions:FlexPod solutions are a ConRes core offering, and this document discusses how FlexPod can simplify the evolution to shared, virtualized, and cloud infrastructure.

You can also follow a number of Twitter accounts as well as our blog to gain the most cutting edge information about NetApp, FlexPod, and better understand how to seamlessly make the move to the cloud. We’d recommend you follow our account @storageguymark, as well as @askflexpod, @NetApp and @CiscoCollab. We frequently post about these concepts on our blog as well as posting to the community forums. To speak with a ConRes professional on Flexpod, please fill out this form.