Like many IT organizations, NetApp IT finds burstable compute resources available through public cloud providers to be very attractive. Yet as cautious IT professionals responsible for NetApp’s data, we consider data privacy, compliancy, and security to be of utmost importance. The challenge for all of us is figuring out how to use the cloud on […]
I’m pleased to share that NetApp is offering free storage on Google Cloud for IT teams addressing the digital fallout of the pandemic. Technology has been our connective fiber during this time, keeping people connected, keeping businesses running, and offering hope for a rapid medical solution. Behind the scenes, overburdened IT teams are racing to […]
The pace of digital transformation is now accelerating, driven by a new normal with digital connectivity at the core. For organizations that may not be far along their transformation journey, it’s time to take a fresh look at DevOps as a way to build agility and speed. There’s not a single path to DevOps. […]
The hybrid cloud model is here to stay. Public cloud providers offer a simple, fast, and efficient model to consume required IT services and help optimize budgets. However, organizations still need to address the other half of the hybrid model. On-premises environments are still often the best—or only—choice to meet specific business, compliance, and operational needs. These requirements have […]
It’s a question we hear a lot at conferences, especially those—like KubeCon and DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES)—focused on the developer community. What does a storage hardware vendor have to do with application development, containers, and cloud-native software? The answer is that we are undergoing our own transformation, bringing our deep knowledge of data storage […]
Beth Busenhart, market strategist for DevOps, recently spoke with Jon Collins, host of GigaOm’s Voices in DevOps, about how data drives the DevOps pipeline, customer experience, and resulting application success. With organizations looking to scale their DevOps strategy, it’s invaluable to understand the opportunities and challenges: How to embrace CI/CD and begin the journey toward […]
NetApp® HCI and NetApp SolidFire® are built to serve customers with high demands. It doesn’t matter what size the enterprise is; our customers need shared IT infrastructure at scale. Our customer environments are dynamic and unpredictable, and they’re experiencing rapid growth. As they have grown, they have been thriving on the industry-leading SolidFire technology architecture. And we have always looked for ways to improve not just the technology, but also the consumption and commercial models for deploying storage in these dynamic environments. That’s why we’re committed to providing flexibility with a new term-capacity licensing model. […]
IT refreshes can be thankless tasks. Minimizing disruption to the business is undoubtedly the number one objective for any IT leader undertaking such an initiative. But, as competitors bring their own chaos into the equation with the launch of a new midrange storage portfolio, businesses are left confused. Is this the right time for another […]
At the 2019 NetApp INSIGHT® conference in Las Vegas, Lead Developer of Services Enablement Solutions Daniel Otto sat down with Cloud Editor in Chief Steve Mudd to discuss his role in the recent rebuild of the NetApp® Support site. The conversation focused on the benefits of using microservices versus a traditional approach. As a […]
From its home-brew history at Google to its ascendency today, Kubernetes has come a long way in a few short years. Now the standard for automating next-gen application deployment, scaling, and management, Kubernetes stands out as a critical force, alongside cloud, influencing how IT thinks and acts in 2020. In other words, in a […]
Today, Varnish Software announced integration of its technology with the NetApp® StorageGRID® object-based storage solution to provide reverse caching for object fetching. If you need added speed for local workloads without increasing your StorageGRID footprint, you can now implement Varnish to supercharge your object storage with lightning-fast download speeds for your most frequently accessed objects. […]
At the 2019 NetApp INSIGHT® conference in Las Vegas, Senior Storage Engineer Faisal Salam sat down with Cloud Editor in Chief Steve Mudd to talk about his experience supporting automation and software-defined storage solutions in NetApp. In this interview, Faisal delves into using NetApp® ONTAP® Ansible to automate day-to-day storage management tasks. His strategy is […]
Kamal Vyas
Robert Cox
Beth Busenhart
Sandy MacDonnell
Steve Mudd
Joseph Christianson
Chris Greenwood
Mary Jo LeBlanc
Eric Han
Ryan Nelson