ePlus Earns Top Ranking in FlexPod Sales

ePlus, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, ePlus Technology, Inc., achieved top partner ranking in FlexPod sales for the first half of NetApp‘s fiscal year 2014.

FlexPod is a pretested and validated solution that combines networking, computing, and storage in a shared infrastructure and supports multiple applications and workloads to help customers accelerate and simplify their transition to the cloud.

ePlus has been a FlexPod provider since the solution’s inception, and has deployed FlexPods in a variety of verticals, including healthcare, manufacturing and IT manufacturers, cloud and service providers, telecommunications, financial, and state/local/educational organizations.

ePlus provides an array of cloud services to support the FlexPod shared infrastructure, including assessment services and Managed FlexPod Services for post-implementation support. In addition, ePlus has functional demo labs on both coasts with FlexPod capabilities, uses it to run its own business internally, and has participated in the documentation testing.

“We’d like to congratulate ePlus on securing our top partner ranking for FlexPod sales,” said Peter Howard, VP, WW channel sales, NetApp. “ePlus has demonstrated a commitment to NetApp solutions and ongoing investments to maintain the highest levels of FlexPod expertise. We look forward to continuing to work together to enable our joint customers to lower deployment risk, increase data center efficiencies, and create a flexible IT environment through FlexPod solutions.”

“We are extremely pleased to attain NetApp’s top spot for FlexPod sales in the US,” said Mark Marron, president of ePlus Technology. “This top ranking builds upon our achievement of FlexPod Premium Partner status and affirms our success and consistent delivery methodology to help customers accelerate IT projects and application deployment, maximize productivity, and drive cost savings.“