For a lot of us, New Year’s resolutions include health and fitness. Exercise: walk, ride a bike, jump rope, or lift weights, get that heart rate up every day. Eat healthy: less red meat, more fruits and veggies, and no more ice cream for breakfast. (Well, let’s not get carried away.) These well-intentioned plans, however, […]
Whether for operating systems or applications, there are a lot of different opinions on upgrades. Some people hesitate to upgrade, on the theory that “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” while others obsessively want to make sure they have the “latest and greatest” at all times. (I’m in the latter category, by the way.) […]
You might have grown up in a time or place where the family car was left unlocked in the driveway. Or you didn’t have a password on your computer. Or your cellphone didn’t even have an option to lock it. Times have changed. We now have doorbells with cameras, mandatory passwords, two-factor authentication, and […]
25 years ago, we introduced NetApp® AutoSupport® in Data ONTAP® 3.0. AutoSupport sent configuration and event data from our storage systems back to our support and engineering teams. The goal was twofold: to understand how our customers were using our storage so we could build a better product, and to be able to quickly […]
NetApp® Active IQ® digital advisor has been helping customers like you stay ahead of ordinary potential problems for years. We’re now in extraordinary times, and Active IQ can help you overcome the new challenges. Active IQ uses AIOps to simplify and to automate proactive care and optimization of your NetApp environment. Continuous risk assessments, […]
What’s the best way to monitor and manage your data storage environment? No one wants to juggle 10 or 20 different tools but trying to do everything with just one tool has its own set of challenges. The optimal solution is what I call “complementary specialization”—several applications, each with a differentiated purpose, working together to […]
Most people think of support as just break/fix. Maybe software upgrades. And with many vendors, that’s all you get for your money. But NetApp® Support is different. In addition to remote technical support, software updates, and fast delivery and installation of replacement parts, NetApp Support includes continuous value through NetApp Active IQ®. Active IQ works […]
When employees can spend less time managing infrastructure, they are free to engage in activities that have higher value. This is the vision for data science in the storage industry and it’s happening today with NetApp® Active IQ® intelligence platform. Please join NetApp on Thursday, February 7th, at Tech Field Day 18 in Austin, TX to […]
Everyone should be familiar with FlexPod, our converged infrastructure solution built on the Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Nexus family of switches, and NetApp storage systems. FlexPod is a great platform for running a variety of virtualization hypervisors and enterprise workloads with the flexibility to accommodate many different use cases. That said, new opportunities lie […]
I’m excited. Why? Because in just over a week, I’ll be attending my first event as a “SolidFire guy.” I’ve been at NetApp for just over five years, and in that time, I’ve worked a lot of shows supporting E-Series, EF-Series, Flash, and FlexPod. This is my first show as part of […]
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