It is sometimes hard to grasp just how much digital data as a planet we generate each day. From small contactless coffee purchases at a Starbucks to hours of CCTV footage; the digital footprint is growing rapidly and almost exponentially. In 2012, a study by IBM estimated that 2.5 exabytes – that’s 2.5 billion gigabytes […]
The transformation from an on-premises storage company to a cloud data services provider is not simple. But having attended this year’s AWS re:Invent and NetApp Insight conferences, I can say with confidence that NetApp has done it. Four years ago, when the Data Fabric was announced, it was just a concept, a bright vision […]
This week on the podcast, we catch up with NetApp’s newest old employee (or is it oldest new employee?) to see what he’s been up to, how he ended up back at NetApp and what he’s working on today. Join us as we discuss a variety of Cloud Data Services including Azure NetApp Files & […]
Seeing big possibilities for innovation in cloud compute and storage, companies are turning to the hybrid, multi-cloud model and its capabilities to solve thorny business problems in inspiring, creative ways. If you attended our NetApp Insight 2018 conference in October, you may have learned from the keynote address that entertainment leader DreamWorks uses the hybrid […]
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) […]
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