NetApp Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Enhance Cloud-Based Data Services
September 19 2024 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Signed SCA with AWS delivers performance and
scalability for modern data workloads like Generative AI
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure
company, today announced the expansion of its decade-long
relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help joint customers
continuously fuel business growth and innovation in the artificial
intelligence (AI) era. Signing a new Strategic Collaboration
Agreement (SCA) builds on the commitment to benefit joint customers
by accelerating generative AI efforts, simplifying transactions,
and delivering CloudOps value.
NetApp and AWS have worked together for over a decade to jointly
accelerate innovation for thousands of customers worldwide. In that
time, NetApp has achieved more than a dozen AWS competencies,
including the Manufacturing and Industrial Software, Financial
Services Technology, and Cloud Operations Software competencies.
AWS Competencies validate AWS Partners with demonstrated AWS
technical expertise and proven customer success. NetApp is the only
enterprise storage vendor with a first-party data storage service
natively built on AWS with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP®, a service
that unlocks the best of cloud for customers by delivering the
industry-leading data management operating system on AWS. The
innovation between NetApp and AWS provides customers with a strong
technology foundation for cloud-based data and operations services
that prepares them to overcome current and future challenges.
NetApp also supports operations for cloud infrastructure
environments, including AWS, with CloudOps solutions such as Spot
by NetApp, NetApp Cloud Insights, and Instaclustr by NetApp. These
solutions combine machine learning (ML) and analytics to simplify,
automate, and optimize operations in the cloud, helping customers
reduce costs, secure their data, and get the most out of their
cloud investments.
“With NetApp cloud solutions on AWS, our customers maintain full
control over their data across their entire hybrid cloud
environment while benefiting from industry-leading scalability,
data availability, security, and performance of AWS,” said Ashish
Dhawan, Senior Vice President of Cloud Sales at NetApp. “That’s all
made possible because our engineering teams are so in sync.
Together, NetApp and AWS help customers continuously fuel business
growth and innovation by delivering data-rich experiences through
workload migration and new application deployments on AWS.”
The expansion of the collaboration between NetApp and AWS will
benefit customers by:
- Accelerating Generative AI Efforts: This SCA will
accelerate generative AI efforts, helping customers continuously
fuel business growth and innovation by delivering data-rich
experiences through workload migration and new application
deployments on AWS. NetApp recently released BlueXP workload
factory to help customers connect ONTAP with foundation models
(FMs) through Amazon Bedrock and extend their on-premises data
estate for building generative AI applications. AWS and NetApp also
published reference architecture guidance for customers to
integrate proprietary enterprise data on FSx for ONTAP into
generative AI pipelines using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
and APIs for Amazon Bedrock, enabling secure, high-performance use
with foundation models. The collaboration between AWS and NetApp
simplifies, accelerates, and enables the ability to generate
unique, high-quality, and ultra-relevant data insights. Instaclustr
by NetApp manages open source vector databases, a crucial component
in the delivery of fast and accurate results in RAG architectures.
The close collaboration between AWS and NetApp on these advanced
workloads makes it simpler and faster for customers to unlock value
from their data using RAG.
- Simplifying Transactions: This SCA will enable increased
AWS Marketplace purchases, especially for NetApp CloudOps
solutions, to streamline processes for customers. It will also
enable customers to more easily implement technical proof of
concepts to evaluate how NetApp solutions on AWS can support their
operations.
- Delivering CloudOps Value: This SCA better positions
NetApp as a trusted provider of CloudOps solutions for AWS
environments. Investments from AWS enable NetApp to better position
and deliver cost and performance optimization solutions through the
AWS Marketplace. NetApp’s close relationship with AWS shows
customers they can trust that NetApp solutions will integrate
seamlessly into their cloud operations and help them achieve their
goals for the performance, protection, scalability, and
availability of their workloads and data.
Additional Resources
- NetApp Expands Intelligent Data Infrastructure Capabilities to
Power Strategic Cloud Workloads
- Amazon FSx For NetApp ONTAP: Easily Launch, Run, And Scale Apps
on AWS
About NetApp
NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining
unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps
solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every
customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing
observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management.
As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in
the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless
flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage
through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application
agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimization of
performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter
the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can
transform your data infrastructure to realize your business
possibilities. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on
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