FlexPod for Account Managers (FPAM)

This course is intended for:

• Account Managers
• System engineers
• Pre-sales engineers

A background in networking and solution sales is strongly recommended.

As a result of having attended this course, you will be able to:

• Explain the essential characteristics and the key requirements for cloud computing, with a focus on "what it can do" vs. "what it is"
• Identify successful strategies for a customer's cloud deployment
• Understand how a FlexPod architecture helps reduce Opex, Capex and software license cost, radically improves application delivery times, increases resource utilization, improves business agility and continuity
• Articulate a FlexPod value proposition to various customers’ organization and markets
• Identify cloud computing opportunities by addressing post server virtualization issues in a Data Center
• Articulate Cisco’s vision for the evolution of server technology as it relates to cloud computing strategies
• Identify the competitors and markets for FlexPod
• Explain the benefits of deploying virtual services and orchestration IT Service Management (ITSM) software with a FlexPod architecture
• Explain the FlexPod advantages in a Multi Tenant environment

Business and Agency leaders are laying out clear mandates for their IT infrastructure teams; Provide IT services on par with Cloud IT Service Providers. This means offering common Cloud provider benefits including a lower cost, secure yet elastic IT infrastructure with automated rapid resource deployment and always on capability. Learn how a validated architecture of integrated IT components such as Flex/ExpressPod is an essential part of your customer’s journey to the Cloud delivering Cloud IT benefits.

Flex/ExpressPod is an agile data center platform with consolidated server, networking, and storage elements that can host multiple applications sharing resources across different departments and organizations. The Flex/ExpressPod platform has been jointly tested and validated by Cisco and NetApp across leading hypervisors, applications and operating systems in virtualized and bare-metal environments. Combining a FlexPod/ExpressPod platform with Orchestration Management Software and a strategy to consolidate-virtualize-automate IT resource delivery will enable a successful journey to the Cloud for your customers and their IT infrastructure teams.

This course teaches you how to articulate to your customer why a Flex/ExpressPod solution is an essential part of any customers cloud compute strategy to deliver the rapid delivery and lower cost benefits of Cloud delivered IT services.