When employees can spend less time managing infrastructure, they are free to engage in activities that have higher value. This is the vision for data science in the storage industry and it’s happening today with NetApp® Active IQ® intelligence platform. Please join NetApp on Thursday, February 7th, at Tech Field Day 18 in Austin, TX to […]
For decades, video storage has been the domain of the security organization. And for decades that’s been just fine. Traditional video surveillance deployments that record data to dedicated digital video recorders (DVRs) or network video recorders (NVRs) don’t need a lot of specialized skills to manage—if they’re small, that is. In small numbers, these systems […]
Over the past few years, NetApp has transformed into a new company, innovating as never before with SAN as a major focus. It is no longer accurate to say that NetApp is a NAS company and not a “real SAN” company. The benefits of flash-based NetApp SAN stand alone in the industry today. If you’re […]
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 […]
Here’s some free advice: Don’t try to rob a casino. It’s no secret that casinos are some of the most watched places on the planet. In a casino, hundreds of cameras are installed throughout every square inch of the building, giving security personnel high-definition, 24/7 visibility into what every patron and every employee is […]
Many of our 50,000 joint VMware/NetApp® customers are eager to move to vSphere 6.7. While ONTAP® itself has supported vSphere 6.7 with ONTAP 9.X releases for some time now, it has taken more work to adapt our virtual appliance to the Java library changes in vCenter 6.7. That work has been completed and we […]
OnCommand System Manager 9.5 bundled with ONTAP 9.5 has come with lot of simplicity improvements. In this blog, you can quickly learn what’s new with System Manager 9.5, that can be an add-on benefit to simplify your day to day operations. SnapMirror Synchronous (SM-S): SnapMirror Synchronous allows user to replicate volume level – data, cross […]
With so many “next-generation” data management solutions available today, why would anyone choose SAN (Storage Area Network) over something like HCI or just moving everything straight to the cloud? I see SAN as a solution to a problem. SAN takes away the complexity of a multi-server environment by consolidating storage onto a single, high-performance […]
For an enterprise, data backup and availability after a disaster are key considerations for business continuance. Disaster Recovery is one kind of security planning, where user can protect the data with precautions and recover the data in case of a disaster without data loss. Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) are own tenants in an ONTAP […]
Standards are ubiquitous in all areas of our lives. Sometimes it seems as if it’s always been that way. In fact, standards evolve over time. One standard that comes to mind is electricity. Today we rarely think about electricity, but it wasn’t always that way. Over time, mechanical power gave way to on-premises electrical power […]
Which technology is right for your organization as you move to the hybrid multi cloud experience, NetApp® HCI or the NetApp SolidFire® scale-out storage system? Do you need simple turnkey infrastructure or support for large-scale workloads? To help you make the right choice, here we compare and contrast the two solutions. With NetApp HCI […]
I’ve already posted about it here and here on the blog: Artificial intelligence will be one of the dominant topics in the coming years. According to research from Gartner, within the decade AI will develop into a mass trend. Another study by IDG Research Services, found that companies classify machine learning (ML) and AI as […]