“Hybrid clouds will be the backbone of IT today and tomorrow,” said George Kurian, Executive VP of Product Operations at NetApp. “We help enterprises maintain control of their data as they bridge their on-premises architecture with the cloud of their choice. The NetApp Data Fabric for the Hybrid Cloud is the right architecture for building enterprise-class hybrid clouds. Our software improves the economics, flexibility, and business impact of a customer’s existing infrastructure, while our cloud technology solutions give customers the needed confidence in our ability to help them navigate the future.”
As the hybrid cloud continues to gain traction within the enterprise, NetApp believes that the data management elements in different parts of a hybrid cloud must be connected and work together to form a coherent, integrated, and interoperable system. This “data fabric” enables data to be consistently managed, transported seamlessly from one part of the cloud to another. It also enables enterprises to apply consistent policies and services to the data in the hybrid cloud regardless of the application, technology or cloud infrastructure provider.
“One of the ways in which CIOs can be successful in supporting the goals of their business is by controlling data. The management of data growth while also enabling the business to gain more insight from the data itself, is the key challenge for a hybrid IT organisation. NetApp is focusing on helping CIOs maintain data control on their terms — by allowing them to choose the public cloud service providers they want to work with and only when they need their services,” said Ashish Nadkarni, Research Director, IDC.
NetApp's announcements include technology components to bring the NetApp Data Fabric vision to life, including:
· Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
Enhancements to the company’s software-defined storage operating system help organisations of all sizes improve their levels of availability, performance and efficiency. New support for NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software provides enterprises with uninterrupted recovery from failures across data centers. Critical business applications can continue to operate in the event of disasters or planned outages.
The latest version of the software includes performance optimisations for all-flash nodes so that customers can maximise performance without sacrificing rich data management, protection, or flexible data movement. The new software includes increased efficiency that significantly improves the cost per gigabyte and cost per IOPS.
Cloud ONTAP
Cloud ONTAP brings the power of clustered Data ONTAP to the public cloud. The first release of Cloud ONTAP combines the power of clustered Data ONTAP with the scale of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The software, which is built on clustered Data ONTAP 8.3, uses patented NetApp technologies for non-disruptive operations, seamless scalability, and efficiency and combines them with the on-demand computing benefits of cloud services. This approach provides a consistent set of data services throughout a hybrid cloud environment.
AWS is the first platform provider to run Cloud ONTAP services on its cloud environment and NetApp is collaborating with Microsoft Azure and Verizon Cloud for future releases. To help customers take advantage of Cloud ONTAP, NetApp is offering a range of cloud-friendly and traditional data centre service licensing options.
· OnCommand Cloud Manager
OnCommand Cloud Manager enables efficient and easy provisioning of clustered Data ONTAP instances between private cloud and public cloud providers. A simple and intuitive graphical user interface gives customers and partners seamless visibility into their hybrid cloud environment and eliminates the complexity of storage setup and movement of data from one location to another.
· NetApp Private Storage for Cloud
NetApp also introduced NetApp Private Storage (NPS) for SoftLayer and announced the new NetApp Private Storage for Cloud family. NPS for Cloud enables customers to use multiple clouds and maintain control of their data on a single NetApp data storage device strategically placed in select colocation facilities.
NetApp has tested cloud connectivity with many Equinix locations and with select alternate colocation facilities worldwide. The cloud solution combines cloud elasticity and savings with the performance, availability and control of private, dedicated enterprise storage. SoftLayer, an IBM company, is the latest cloud provider to partner with NetApp with an NPS for Cloud approach. Other NPS for Cloud solutions currently available are NetApp Private Storage for Amazon Web Services and NetApp Private Storage for Microsoft Azure.
· Strategy, design, deployment, and transition services
New services offered include the Enterprise Transformation Workshop for Cloud, which helps customers envision and architect the right cloud storage strategy for a successful evolution to the hybrid cloud. For organisations looking to optimize the deployment of NetApp technology in their infrastructure, NetApp offers the Efficiency and Optimization Service. This service performs a comprehensive storage-level health check and analysis to help pre-empt transition problems and enhance performance. Additionally, for new and existing customers moving to clustered Data ONTAP software, the clustered Data ONTAP Migration Service, RapidData Migration QuickStart Service, and self-help migration tools facilitate a smooth and simple transition.
“Enterprises implementing private and hybrid cloud infrastructures rely on technology leaders to provide proven data center technologies, and NetApp and Brocade have been working together for over a decade providing highly available, reliable and high performance storage and storage networks optimised for the cloud. NetApp’s Clustered Data ONTAP and Cloud ONTAP technologies combined with Brocade’s data centre-proven Ethernet fabric and Gen 5 Fibre Channel fabric networks provide a robust and highly scalable infrastructure for enterprises implementing cloud architectures,” noted Jack Rondoni, Vice President, Storage Networking, Brocade.
“Our joint success in developing private cloud solutions in the enterprise with FlexPod is the perfect foundation for hybrid cloud solutions. NetApp’s new hybrid cloud solutions complement Cisco’s cloud strategy, provide businesses with the flexibility to manage changing environments, and give customers a smooth on-ramp to the Intercloud,” commented Jim McHugh, Vice President of Unified Computing Solutions (UCS) marketing, Cisco Systems.
“Many of our customers who are deploying mobile workspaces are turning to a hybrid cloud environment to combine the benefits of private cloud security and public cloud flexibility for their IT infrastructure to cut costs and maximise value. NetApp’s new hybrid software and services will offer a key component that can help customers build a simple and efficient strategy enabling IT infrastructures to grow and transform with their business,” said Calvin Hsu, Vice President, Product Marketing, Desktop and Applications, Citrix.
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