NetApp Expands Portfolio of Hybrid Cloud Solutions to Bring Out the Best in the Cloud

• New hybrid cloud updates accelerate digital transformation, enabling organizations to optimize operations in terms of cost, scalability, agility and speed

Today at INSIGHT 2021, NetApp, a global data-centric, cloud-oriented software company, announced new additions and enhanced features to its portfolio a hybrid cloud to help organizations modernize their IT infrastructure and accelerate digital transformation. Offering secure new ways to consume and operate data services on-premises and in the cloud, NetApp hybrid cloud solutions make it simple for enterprise customers to put their data to work — where and when it needs it.

“As a leading IT consultancy specializing in cloud infrastructure and services, our clients are increasingly working with us to reduce CAPEX spending by benefiting from cloud-like consumption models for their on-premises environments”

As the only solution provider with native integrations to the world’s largest public clouds, NetApp’s industry-leading ONTAP  software remains the foundation for hybrid cloud. With the latest release of ONTAP, NetApp is introducing improved ransomware protection, expanded data management capabilities, and NVMe/TCP support for accelerated performance. The company is also announcing new digital wallet features for NetApp Cloud Manager and improved data services for simplified administration in a hybrid cloud, more flexible consumption options for better cost control, and new professional services offerings to help customers unlock the full value of on-premises and hybrid cloud resources.

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“The promised benefits of moving to the cloud can be profound, but many IT departments are still working to overcome on-premises challenges such as managing data transfer complexity and costs, guarding against ransomware, and ensuring reliable application performance critics,” said Brad Anderson, executive vice president of NetApp’s hybrid cloud group. “As a hybrid cloud expert, NetApp can help companies advance their digital transformation efforts to deliver business results faster and on budget, whether they’re still developing a strategy or while executing large-scale migrations.”

“An IDC survey shows that approximately 70% of enterprise IT customers plan to modernize their storage infrastructure in the next two years to support next-generation workloads. But the main operational advantage will be the optimization of workload distribution between traditional on-premises and cloud environments,” said Eric Burgener, vice president of research, Infrastructure Systems Group at IDC. “As an industry leader with years of innovation and experience delivering hybrid cloud solutions, NetApp is uniquely positioned to help companies transition to hybrid cloud models to achieve the scalability and flexibility needed to deliver critical data services and resources that drive business value.”

“Formula 1 racing has always been about finding the competitive advantage, and with Aston Martin Cognizant’s return to F1™ this year, we are embracing an ambitious data-centric strategy to maximize our performance both on and off the track in pursuit from pole position,” said Otmar Szafnauer, CEO and Formula 1 team leader Aston Martin Cognizant. “By partnering with NetApp to build our data fabric and standardize operations with their 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 simplify plant and engineering operations, focusing on constant improvement and advancing the team.”

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The latest NetApp portfolio innovations announced today include:

• Improvements to ONTAP Data Management Software: The latest version of ONTAP allows companies to protect themselves against ransomware attacks anonymously based on machine learning with preemptive detection and accelerated data recovery. The new release also offers enterprise-grade performance for SAN and modern workloads with NVMe/TCP support, expanded object storage capabilities and simplified management. In addition, this latest version of ONTAP will power the future NetApp AFF A900, a high-resilience, next-generation all-flash system for business-critical workloads.

• Enhanced Data Services: With new digital wallet features available in NetApp Cloud Manager, customers can benefit from greater mobility and more visibility into the use of data service licenses in a hybrid cloud, with prepayment of credits enabling an implementation simplified to avoid acquisition difficulties. Additional updates include enhancements to NetApp Cloud Backup and Cloud Data Sense services, streamlined deployment of ONTAP Cloud Volumes with new customer-ready templates, fully integrated Active IQ, and deeper integrations with NetApp Cloud Insights and ONTAP software to support loads of work Kubernetes.

• More flexible consumption options: the NetApp Keystone Flex subscription, an on-premises storage-as-a-service offering with native cloud integration continues to gain traction with customers. The offering is now supported on four continents — spanning petabytes of capacity in just one year of availability. NetApp is offering a new class of freemium service for ONTAP Cloud Volumes, providing customers with access to a full, perpetual license to use ONTAP in the cloud for workloads that need less than 500GB of storage. This flexibility in consumption gives companies the freedom to use enterprise-grade data services for small workloads, such as Kubernetes clusters, with no upfront cost. It is only necessary to convert to a subscription when the workload matures and increases.

“As a leading IT consultancy specializing in cloud infrastructure and services, our clients are increasingly working with us to reduce CAPEX spend by benefiting from cloud-like consumption models for their on-premises environments,” said Kent Christensen, practice director Virtual Insight. “NetApp Keystone helps us provide a truly flexible consumption model for enterprises, serving as a platform to deliver business-critical data services across an entire hybrid cloud data fabric, which will be a huge benefit to our growing customer base. customers.”

• More accessible hybrid cloud experience: NetApp is also introducing new support offerings and professional services, making it even easier to access experts for step-by-step guidance as you transition to the hybrid cloud. With SupportEdge Advisor for Cloud, NetApp is extending its data center support model to cloud services, with fast, direct access to trained experts. NetApp Flexible Professional Services (FlexPS) is also available for customers who need ongoing, on-demand support as they transition to a hybrid cloud. With this new subscription-based offering, businesses 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 acquisition delays.