NetApp, through its relationship with the world’s three major public clouds announced continuous growth and momentum in assisting enterprises in unlocking the benefits of cloud at a lower cost.
“Alongside NetApp, we have worked with ANF customers to successfully migrate and run some of their largest and most important ONTAP production workloads, enabling the most demanding applications with performance and scale that meets or beats what they get on-premises,” said Jurgen Willis, Vice President, Product Management at Microsoft Azure Storage.
“With ANF we get scalability and flexibility, which is important for businesses to run and have a faster time-to-market for their products” said Lalit Patel, Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Cloud Services at SAP.
He also said ,“We are able to deploy environments almost 30 to 40 percent faster and reduce the number of outages by 80 percent because of the stability that ANF provides.”
“The three largest public clouds in the world are choosing NetApp, because customers are choosing ONTAP,” said Anthony Lye, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Public Cloud Services at NetApp.
He added, “Our strategy has positioned ONTAP as the native shared storage solution with rich data services inside the three public clouds. Now, our public cloud partners provide customers with the simplest path to the cloud and allow them to derive the most value from their data and applications.”
“The completeness of NetApp’s offering, combined with the ability to address a very broad set of storage use cases beyond cloud file storage, and the availability as a Tier 1 offering both on AWS and Azure, makes it a compelling choice,” said Enrico Signoretti, Senior Data Storage Analyst at GigaOm.
“Our partnership with NetApp continues to grow, rolling out new capabilities that will make it easier and more cost-effective to deliver enterprise workloads on Google Cloud and bringing customers even more flexibility across hybrid and cloud deployments,” said Bronwyn Hastings, Vice President Global Technology Partnerships at Google Cloud.
“With NetApp’s deep integrations with Google Cloud, we’re reaping all of the benefits of the cloud as a service, with configurations preset, elasticity built-in and disaster recovery capabilities in place within five minutes,” said Tom Gentry, Technologist at Gunpowder.
He added, “By making the technology challenges disappear for these studios, we’re able to deliver the high performance our customers need anywhere in the world.”
NetApp’s cloud development has been driven by customers and supported by these partnerships, resulting in increased customer and financial growth for NetApp’s public cloud services by providing its superior CloudOps and ITOps solutions to existing and new addressable customers. NetApp bolstered the Spot by NetApp portfolio’s existing continuous cloud optimization capabilities by acquiring Data Mechanics in early fiscal year (FY)’22 and announcing the intent to buy CloudCheckr this month.
NetApp’s cloud file services have been natively integrated into each of the main public clouds, thanks to the company’s ONTAP data management software, which enables high-performance shared storage for file and block workloads.
Microsoft and NetApp have been partners for nearly 30 years. NetApp was named the global Customer Experience Partner of the Year and Microsoft’s US SAP on Azure Partner of the Year in 2021. NetApp has more than tripled the amount of co-sells available on the Azure Marketplace in the last year, making it simple for Azure customers to use NetApp’s premium cloud services.
Since its general availability in 2019, Azure NetApp Files (ANF) has been the first and only shared file service certified for use with SAP HANA. ANF is a fully managed, first-party service marketed, billed, and supported by Microsoft in 35+ areas globally. Azure has recently released Azure Cross-Region Replication, a public preview of Azure NetApp Files Backup to preserve storage efficiency, and Spot PC for safe, optimized Azure Virtual Desktop-based Cloud PC settings.
In 2018, NetApp and Google Cloud began working together, and in 2019, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service (CVS) for Google Cloud was released, followed by NetApp Astra with Google Cloud support in 2020. Google announced earlier this month that NetApp would be the primary data and storage vendor for its new Google Distributed Cloud Hosted offering, as well as the integration of Google Cloud VMware Engine with NetApp Cloud Volumes Service support for VM datastores. This fully managed service assists organizations with virtual workload storage and disaster recovery.
Additionally, Spot by NetApp and Google Cloud have teamed to enable businesses take full use of Google Spot VMs, which were just launched. Customers of Google Cloud may now use Spot by NetApp to constantly optimise performance, availability, and pricing for cloud cost reductions without the risk of service interruption.
