DevOps engineers face the seemingly impossible challenge of provisioning multiple up-to-date, easily refreshable test copies of large production datasets. With continuously running test environments, short development lifecycles, and the pressure to go ever faster, engineers need a cloud-native, high-performing file system unlike any that has gone before. NetApp® Cloud Volumes Service and Azure NetApp […]
Part two of two In my last blog post, I talked about why Azure NetApp Files is offering more choice for customers for building a more robust and risk-free roadmap to the public cloud. In this post, I will explore some of the use cases I think are the most relevant for clients […]
The traditional approach to creating a copy of a live production dataset, such as a file share or a database, is to perform a backup and restore. However, this procedure produces a multitude of issues and does not scale well when you need large numbers of environments, and/or those environments need to be refreshed quickly. […]
Performing backups of a file share and getting a consistent point-in-time copy can be a huge challenge for engineers. Why? When a system remains in active use, the data in that system is likely to change during the backup operation, creating copies that are outdated from the start of the backup. This can lead to […]
If you are like most organizations, you have been given a mandate to move some or all of your data and applications to the cloud. The challenge is to identify which data to move, and how and where to move it. Because the last thing you want to do is make a move that will […]
When moving workloads to the cloud, one challenge that companies face is access to high-performance, scalable, and shared file systems (NFS / SMB) that many applications need. This week at NetApp’s European customer and partner event, Insight Barcelona, we announced new capabilities designed to help customers in Europe access the shared file storage service for […]
How do we protect our personal data and make sure that we can access it whenever we need it? Let’s look at the “then” versus the “now” approach. Then: Let’s turn back the clock a bit. Remember how we protected our personal data 5 years ago? The answer is simple: We created backups of […]
High-performance shared file storage that’s scalable and highly available is crucial to delivering a data analytics platform. Cloud users need file storage that’s easy to use and has the features to support data analytics solutions, no matter which hyperscaler they use. Azure NetApp® Files and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]
Part One of Two In my role here at NetApp, our team, the Global pathways team, is dedicated to enabling Digital Transformation through our eco-system of alliances and partners and developing industry-specific solutions. Our approach is from business value and business workflow perspectives first, rather than a core technology approach. In other words, we […]
Successfully establishing data lakes in the cloud opens up a world of possibilities for data analysis. Users need an easy-to-use, robust, high-performance platform with the precise feature set required to create and support data lake environments, no matter which hyperscaler they use. Azure NetApp® Files and Cloud Volumes Service are fully managed cloud storage […]
As mentioned previously in a prior blog, NetApp has worked with VMware Cloud on AWS to provide enterprise-class storage features in AWS. Now called Cloud Volumes ONTAP (formerly, ONTAP Cloud), NetApp can provide the same enterprise-class features in a virtualized appliance that we do on-premises in an engineered system. NetApp and VMware continue to work […]
Welcome to the conclusion of our 3-part blog series, examining the major challenges of file services and the solutions that NetApp® Cloud Volumes Service offers. In part 1, we discussed compatibility and continuity. And in part 2, we looked at migration and synchronization between on-premises and cloud environments. In part 3, we’ll look at […]
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