NetApp Expands Hybrid Cloud Solutions Portfolio to Unlock Best of Cloud
October 20 2021 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
New Hybrid Cloud Updates Fuel Digital
Transformation, Enabling Organizations to Optimize Operations for
Cost, Scalability, Agility and Speed
Today at INSIGHT 2021, NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global
cloud-led, data-centric software company, announced new additions
and enhanced capabilities across its hybrid cloud portfolio to help
organizations modernize their IT infrastructures and accelerate
digital transformation. Delivering new secure ways to consume and
operate data services on-premises and in the cloud, NetApp hybrid
cloud solutions make it simpler for enterprise customers to put
their data to work — wherever and whenever they need it.
As the only solutions provider with native integrations for the
world’s largest public clouds, NetApp’s industry leading ONTAP®
software continues to serve as the foundation for hybrid cloud.
With the latest release of ONTAP, NetApp is introducing enhanced
protection against ransomware, expanded data management
capabilities, and NVMe/TCP support for accelerated performance. The
company is also announcing new digital wallet capabilities for
NetApp Cloud Manager and enhanced data services for simplified
administration across a hybrid cloud, more flexible consumption
options to better control costs, as well as new Professional
Services offerings to help customers unlock the full value of
on-premises and hybrid cloud resources.
“The promised benefits of migrating to the cloud may be
profound, but many IT departments are still working to overcome
on-premises challenges, like managing the complexity and costs of
moving data, protecting against ransomware, and ensuring reliable
performance for critical applications,” said Brad Anderson,
Executive Vice President, Hybrid Cloud Group at NetApp. “As the
hybrid cloud specialist, NetApp can help enterprises move their
digital transformation efforts forward to deliver business results
faster and within budget—whether they are still developing a
strategy or in the middle of executing large-scale migrations.”
“IDC’s research shows that approximately 70% of enterprise IT
customers plan to modernize their storage infrastructures in the
next two years to support next-generation workloads. But the key
operational advantage will be in optimizing workload placement
across traditional on-premises and cloud environments,” said Eric
Burgener, Research Vice President, Infrastructure Systems Group at
IDC. “As an industry leader with years of innovation and expertise
delivering hybrid cloud solutions, NetApp is uniquely positioned to
help enterprises transition to hybrid cloud models to achieve the
scalability and flexibility they need to deliver critical data
services and workload capabilities that drive business value.”
“Formula One racing has always been about finding the
competitive edge, and with Aston Martin Cognizant’s return to the
F1™ grid this year, we’re embracing an ambitious data-centric
strategy to maximize our performance both on and off the track as
we seek pole position,” said Otmar Szafnauer, Chief Executive
Officer and Team Principal at Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One
Team. “By partnering with NetApp to build our data fabric and
standardize operations with its world-class hybrid cloud solutions,
we’re working to ensure that everything we do—from capturing
real-time data on car and component performance to how we
streamline factory and engineering operations—is focused on
constant improvement and driving the team forward.”
NetApp’s latest portfolio innovations announced today
include:
- ONTAP Data Management Software Enhancements: The latest
release of ONTAP enables enterprises to autonomously protect
against ransomware attacks based on machine learning with
integrated preemptive detection and accelerated data recovery. The
new release also delivers enterprise-grade performance for SAN and
modern workloads with NVMe/TCP support, expanded object storage
capabilities, and simplified management. In addition, this latest
ONTAP release will power the upcoming NetApp AFF A900, the
next-generation high-resiliency all-flash system for
business-critical workloads.
- Enhanced Data Services: With new digital wallet
capabilities available in NetApp Cloud Manager, customers can
benefit from greater mobility and more visibility into usage of
data service licenses across a hybrid cloud, with prepayment of
credits enabling streamlined deployment to avoid procurement
hassles. Additional updates include enhancements to NetApp Cloud
Backup and Cloud Data Sense services, simplified deployment of
Cloud Volumes ONTAP with new customer-ready templates, fully
embedded Active IQ, and deeper integrations with NetApp Cloud
Insights and ONTAP software to support Kubernetes workloads.
- More Flexible Consumption Options: NetApp Keystone Flex
Subscription, an on-premises storage-as-a-service offering with
native cloud integration, continues to gain momentum with
customers. The offering is now supported on four
continents—encompassing petabytes of capacity within just under one
year of availability. NetApp is now offering a new freemium service
tier for Cloud Volumes ONTAP, providing customers with access to a
fully featured, perpetual license to use ONTAP in the cloud for
workloads needing less than 500GB of storage. This consumption
flexibility gives organizations the freedom to use enterprise-grade
data services for small workloads such as Kubernetes clusters at no
initial cost. An organization only needs to convert to a
subscription when the workload matures and scales.
“As a leading IT consultancy specializing in cloud
infrastructure and services, our clients are increasingly working
with us to reduce CAPEX spending by taking advantage of cloud-like
consumption models for their on-premises environments,” said Kent
Christensen, Virtual Practice Director for cloud and data center
transformation at Insight. “NetApp Keystone helps us provide a
truly flexible consumption model for enterprises, serving as a
platform to provide business-critical data services across the
entire hybrid cloud data fabric, which will be a huge boon for our
growing client base."
- More Accessible Hybrid Cloud Expertise: NetApp is also
introducing new Support and Professional Services offerings to make
it even easier to access experts for step-by-step guidance as they
transition to hybrid cloud. With SupportEdge Advisor for Cloud,
NetApp is extending its data center support model to cloud services
with rapid, direct access to trained specialists. NetApp Flexible
Professional Services (FlexPS) is also available for customers that
require on-demand and ongoing support as they transition to a
hybrid cloud. With this new subscription-based offering,
organizations can get the professional help they need to design and
build a data fabric strategy, implement solutions, and optimize
their hybrid cloud with predictable costs and avoid procurement
delays.
Additional Resources
- Press Release: NetApp Simplifies and Speeds Digital
Transformation for Customers Through Deep, Industry-Leading Public
Cloud Relationships at INSIGHT 2021 Digital
- INSIGHT 2021 Digital – Meet the Specialists: NetApp INSIGHT
2021 Digital is coming, October 20–22 | NetApp INSIGHT 2021 - Meet
the Specialists 2 - NetApp
- NetApp hybrid cloud portfolio:
https://www.netapp.com/hybrid-cloud/
About NetApp
NetApp is a global cloud-led, data-centric software company that
empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated
digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and
cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally
from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the
cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike
experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse
environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data
fabric and securely deliver the right data, services and
applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere. Learn more at
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