I am happy to announce an update of our VVol TR-4400, VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes with ONTAP. You may download the updated TR with the same URL used previously: https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4400.pdf. I might be weird in this respect, but I enjoy reading product manuals. But even though the prior VVol technical report was well written, […]
This week on the podcast, VMworld 2018 is fast approaching! Joins me and a group of NetApp’s finest virtualization experts to discuss what’s in store for NetApp at VMworld 2018, as well as what we can expect for NetApp HCI. Guests on this episode include: Doug Chamberlain, Senior Product Marketing Manager Keith Norbie, Senior Business Development Manager Gabriel Chapman, […]
Deliver Private Cloud at Scale IT teams are increasingly required to deliver more and to deliver faster. Keeping up with IT operational efficiency while also keeping customers happy is a delicate balance that requires a thoughtful approach, with agile strategy. More than ever, it has become apparent that to maintain a relevant infrastructure, you must […]
Shaping Cloud Transformation for Hosting Providers “Transformation,” might seem to be the most used buzzword of the year, but service providers that understand how technology is changing their customer businesses can take advantage and build a profitable services business even in a hypercompetitive environment. According to a recent 451 Research report titled 2018 Trends in […]
If you have ever seen the 1948 movie Oliver Twist, you know that there’s a scene where Oliver, clutching his empty bowl, says to the person in charge, “Please, sir, I want some more.” This scene mirrors everyday life for modern application developers and for infrastructure teams (maybe with less angst). Application developers essentially […]
I love it when things just work without having to think about them. Too often in the technology world things don’t work as they should or they’re just simply…broken. Take, for instance, the Rachio™ sprinkler control system I recently installed at my rental property. With Denver traffic what it is these days, it’s an excruciating pain to go back and […]
In a recent joint case study with RedHat, NetApp Unix engineer David Fox explains how IT is leveraging NetApp Trident and two RedHat technologies, OpenShift Container Platform and Ansible Automation, to improve the efficiency of IT services and application delivery at NetApp. Over the past few years, NetApp IT has been on a journey […]
The database is often one of the most overlooked and most complex parts of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). In production and for quality testing, you must have clean and valid data in the application database. To achieve that quality level, organizations like yours often rely on a copy of the production database. Setting […]
Enterprises aren’t the only businesses that are exploring multicloud strategies. Cloud and hosting service providers who want to support enterprise multicloud needs are also looking to build services that span infrastructures and deliver multicloud value in a more controlled and managed environment. Why are service providers looking at multicloud deployments? Enterprises are trying to unburden […]
In a build-versus-buy paradigm for IT infrastructure, many business owners like you prefer to buy instead of build. Specifically, they choose to buy a converged infrastructure that provides a flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient architecture with FlexPod® Datacenter and VMware. Even with a superior CI in place, however, you might still have a barrier between […]
This week on the podcast, we bring in some of the NetApp OpenStack crew to discuss OpenStack Summit 2018 in Vancouver. Join Product Marketing Manager Pete Brey and TMEs Amit Borulkar and David Blackwell as we discuss all the happenings of the conferences, as well as Amit’s new OpenStack FlexPod Cisco Validated Design! For more information on FlexPod SF, check out the FlexPod SF with Red Hat OpenStack Platform Design […]
When it comes to massive unstructured data growth, the NetApp® StorageGRID® software-defined object-based storage solution has you covered. This scale-out, node-based architecture gives you the agility to increase capacity on demand across your sites for up to hundreds of petabytes. Instead of trying to manage multiple active namespaces across multiple data centers that can’t […]
Karl Konnerth
Justin Parisi
Caitlin Knight
Stuart Oliver
Pete Brey
David Fox
Bikash Roy Choudhury