NetApp Active IQ provides customers and partners with actionable intelligence on their NetApp environment via a dashboard that summarizes performance, availability, capacity forecasting, health summary, case histories, upgrade recommendations, and more. Every week the system generates about 100TB of data and 225 million files―and it is growing! As the team responsible for IT operations and […]
Expect the unexpected. That’s the first rule of business continuity planning. If you want to minimize the impact of a disruptive incident, prepare for the known unknowns if not the unknown unknowns. Every shock – whether caused by flooding, fire, cyberattack, or, as now, a global virus – is different in character and execution, but […]
As storage management experts, NetApp IT leans on tools like Red Hat Ansible to help automate the delivery of consistent storage environments, reduce configuration errors, and respond to threshold limits. Two years ago, our team started using ONTAP® Ansible modules to reduce day 0 build times from a 2-day manual process to a 10-minute automated […]
Organizations are very aware of ransomware and the dangers of infection. Yet many of those same organizations don’t really have a good idea of how to recover quickly and efficiently if they’ve encountered a ransomware attack. Unfortunately, not all organizations that pay the ransom end up getting their precious data back; it might remain encrypted […]
In 1860, the United States had 30,626 miles of train track; by 1900, the number had grown to 193,346 miles. As the nation significantly multiplied its manufacturing capacity, the number of goods and people moving among different parts of the country showed a remarkable increase: railroad freight ton-miles increased 35 times between 1865 and 1915. […]
In today’s constantly connected global business environment, organizations must plan for varying degrees of failure. Failure can affect anything ranging from a network to devices, storage, and the complete site itself. The worst-case scenario for a business disaster is obvious — a catastrophic event, such as a natural calamity, fire, or human-created disaster that physically […]
Suppose that you are a chief information security officer (CISO), chief technology officer (CTO), or IT manager, with responsibility for all the information systems in your organizations. Your team applies security patches to software and applications as soon as they come out. You’re not worried about viruses or malware, because, along with your blistering speed […]
NetApp® ONTAP® 9 data management software provides the foundation for a data fabric, which makes it easy to move your data where it’s needed across flash, drive, and cloud resources. To better align with your plans for adopting ONTAP releases, NetApp will deliver an ONTAP feature release once per calendar year. With this consistent release […]
Several things come to mind when I hear the word “quick.” I once saw thousands of dollars vanish from my checking account in minutes from a PayPal hack (thanks to PayPal and my bank for making everything right). A cheetah can accelerate from a stand-still to 60 mph in about 3 seconds – quick indeed. […]
Co-authors: Naveen Krishnamurthy from VMware, Jayamohan Kallickal from Broadcom General availability (GA) of VMware vSphere 7.0 is a major milestone for VMware. The new release supports many new features that can facilitate transformation of modern data centers. One key feature available with vSphere 7.0 is NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) support. Broadcom, NetApp, and VMware have […]
Enterprises are moving toward the cloud; however, on-premise storage is not going anywhere. Customers have a mix of on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud as part of their infrastructure. Protecting this infrastructure is crucial for any organization. NetApp is a one stop shop for data protection, backup and recovery, disaster recovery (DR), and long-term retention […]
Good software development considers functionality from the perspective of the user. For example, as a systems administrator, I want to easily monitor the systems in my environment to ensure that they perform and function as expected. But software is rarely described by a single user story, so let’s add another. As a systems administrator, I […]
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