Updated : September 23, 2013 01:00 am,Dubai
By Editor
By Editor
New solutions and partner integrations built on clustered Data ONTAP provide a storage and data management foundation to enable organizations to move confidently to hybrid cloud architectures
CIOs are moving from being builders and operators of data centers to becoming brokers of application and information services. They are embracing new technologies and service models to deliver IT faster, cheaper, and smarter, while making their companies more responsive and competitive.
Public cloud computing is at the forefront of this dramatic shift in IT. Organizations increasingly look to integrate public cloud services to offer predictable costs, faster provisioning, and infinite scale. More and more, organizations are turning to hybrid cloud environments to optimize costs, seize opportunities, and mitigate risks. In this reality, data must travel across multiple clouds seamlessly – from private to public to hybrid models – while providing IT with the necessary control to centrally manage, govern, and transport data across discrete cloud resources.
“Regardless of the ultimate computing destination, the CIO will maintain ownership of the organization’s data,” said Jay Kidd, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NetApp. The introduction of new multicloud architectures makes data governance more complex because data is distributed, and not under direct control. Our vision is to create an enterprise data management solution, with the clustered Data ONTAP operating system at its core, which will span the customers’ data storage landscape, irrespective of data type or location.”
NetApp has extended its strategy and commitment to provide seamless cloud management across any blend of private and public cloud resources. NetApp’s strategy is to use the world’s number-one branded storage operating system, Data ONTAP, as a universal data platformacross cloud environments. Data ONTAP will enable dynamic data portability across all clouds and will support extensive customer choice for application, technology, and cloud partner options. Already more than 175 cloud service providers deliver cloud services built on Data ONTAP. IDC has named NetApp Data ONTAP as the world’s number-one branded storage operating system.*
NetApp has outlined its vision for seamless data management across any blend of private and public clouds. Its vision centers on three strategic pillars:
With more IT organizations complementing private cloud infrastructure with public cloud services, NetApp clustered Data ONTAP provides a common fabric for storage and data management across all cloud resources. Available in NetApp optimized systems (FAS systems), for third-party hardware (V-Series), within converged infrastructures (the FlexPod data center platform), and as a virtual storage appliance for commodity disk drives (Data ONTAP Edge), clustered Data ONTAP is a flexible and efficient storage platform that enables nondisruptive operations and near-infinite scalability.
In the upcoming months, NetApp and Cisco will deepen the integration of clustered Data ONTAP into the FlexPod converged infrastructure with the introduction of new reference architectures aimed at large-scale cloud service provider and enterprise multi-tenant environments. The new features build on the success that more than 2,400 customers have had moving to private clouds with FlexPod.
NetApp will continue expand its leadership in the software-defined storage market with clustered Data ONTAP and enable application owners through API integrations. This leadership includes expanded investments in connecting to hyperscaler cloud service providers, more robust quality-of-service capabilities, and expanded API integrations with emerging solutions like OpenStack and CloudStack. Learn more customers moving to software-defined data centers with NetApp for VMware environments.
NetApp allows customers to move data and workloads with ease across all instances of Data ONTAP in a multicloud environment. At Oracle OpenWorld (September 24 – 27) NetApp will showcase technology for “on-the-fly” hypervisor translation as workloads travel across disparate environments. This technology will complement an existing product portfolio for data transport that includes SnapMirror technology, the number one data replication software. SnapMirror will be enhanced to support easy replication of data to private or public cloud resources for data protection and disaster recovery.
NetApp will continue to provide an extensive array of customer choices for hybrid cloud operations while avoiding competition with its ecosystem of public cloud service provider partners. As part of its strategy, NetApp supports all major cloud operating environments, virtualization frameworks, application deployment models, and cloud management solutions. In the upcoming months, the company will announce integrations with flagship providers in each of these key areas, including new contributions to OpenStack and CloudStack, and new partnerships with large-scale hyperscale cloud service providers.
More than 175 cloud service providers deliver services built on NetApp storage. Those partners offer more than 300 NetApp-based cloud services to the market. The company’s technology integrations have been celebrated by its global partners, including Microsoft, who recently named NetApp Server Partner of the Year, and last year named NetApp Private Cloud Partner of the Year.