The announcement from Microsoft that Azure NetApp Files is in GA is at the top of my list this year. This exciting announcement means even more opportunities for Microsoft Sellers and Microsoft Partners to help customers by migrating high performance NFS and SMB workloads to Azure in minutes. Visit our NetApp Booth #824 and get […]
In October 2014 we unveiled our vision for data fabric to the world. Almost 5 years later, we’ve helped a substantial number of customers modernize their IT and build their data fabric. And Gartner has recognized the data fabric as a key technology trend for 2019. It’s been a fascinating time for us as […]
The benefits of moving to the cloud are well understood, and most companies are quickly moving to adopt a cloud strategy. But the challenges associated with moving applications and data to the cloud may delay plans. Most companies face the decision of whether to build new applications in the cloud, rearchitect existing applications, lift applications […]
Hybrid multicloud is quickly moving into the mainstream. Some companies are pursuing it intentionally; some find themselves in a multicloud world by accident. However a company lands there, it has a growing interest in this topology. Hybrid multicloud can offer the ability to combine external data sources or corporate data that is already in the […]
Is your data center running out of storage space faster than you planned, but you’re not ready to go all in on the public cloud? We’ve got some good news that will help you free up both space and budget in your hybrid cloud environment. The NetApp Cloud Tiering service is generally available now on […]
For the on premises and private cloud environments, NetApp IT has a mature and productive operational support model that is well managed, has proven processes and established metrics, and results in little or no business disruptions. But that wasn’t always the case. When I started with NetApp in late 2011, we were experiencing Priority-1 (P1) […]
This week on the podcast, we talk about how FlexCache and Cloud Volumes ONTAP play together in ONTAP 9.6, as well as what use cases you might leverage for the feature. Featured in this podcast: Oren Inbar, PM Cloud Solutions Shriya Paramkusam, PM FlexCache/Flexgroups Chris Hurley, TME FlexCache/NAS For more information on FlexCache, […]
Nearly everyone involved in a technology business that sells to a wide array of customers has seen the depiction of the standard “adoption curve” first theorized by Everett Rogers in the 1960s. (Here’s a picture of it from Wikipedia). Modern re-interpretations have included Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm”, where the ‘early adopter’ and the ‘early majority’ stages […]
Today is a fantastic day to be at NetApp. Earlier today Tad Brockway, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Azure Storage, Media, and Edge, announced Azure NetApp Files (ANF) general availability(GA).This announcement is exciting and means Azure NetApp Files is a live, publicly available Microsoft product with full support for production workloads and SLA’s.This is an […]
These days, it would be easy to think that the public cloud is the only storage solution worth investing in. As new app deployment continues to move away from traditional IT to new DevOps groups, the public cloud gives developers immediate and direct access to infrastructure resources and to developer-friendly platform resources without having to […]
Time seems to pass particularly swiftly in the technology world; it’s hard to believe that KubeCon is now entering its fifth year as the premier event and gathering for the Kubernetes ecosystem. As we approach the upcoming European event, taking place in the amazing city of Barcelona from May 20 through 23, it’s striking to […]
Storage capacity, efficiency, and performance are key responsibilities that my colleagues and I manage as part of the enterprise IT storage team at NetApp. We currently maintain approximately 75 PB of storage and 450 storage controllers supporting hundreds of corporate business applications. To best manage our environment, we have relied on several NetApp solutions in […]
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