The work of IT teams is never done, given the constant forward motion of technology. If DevOps is a framework and a culture, how can organizations develop and leverage it to drive success? Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), shared her team’s research findings at NetApp Insight […]
Datacenter teams are finding that the levels of scale, simplicity, and agility needed to support complex digital transformation initiatives simply cannot be achieved using the long-standing practice of buying individually managed silos of datacenter resources, or just following the “check box” next to things like application programming interfaces. As a result, IT organizations around […]
A Gartner Research report recently caught my attention called “The Data Center is Dead, and Digital Infrastructures Emerge.” In the report, Gartner analyst David Cappuccio highlights strategies like prioritizing workload placement, building an ecosystem of visionary partners, investing in talent and training, and leveraging distributed digital infrastructure. All of these are valid for any IT […]
As more and more enterprises move towards building the next-gen datacenter, hybrid clouds will become the norm. OpenStack fits into the on-prem portion of that perfectly, and along with NetApp, makes for an effective and high-performance solution. NetApp’s FAS and AFF storage arrays, and Element Software storage platforms are designed to provide increased efficiency and […]
You know how it is: a lot of data, a lot of costs. Backing up data in the cloud can quickly drain your budget and impede your growth. RapidScale, a managed cloud service provider, had this issue, too. Its data was projected to triple in 9 months and the company didn’t have a cost-effective way […]
The Next Mandatory Business Survival Position for Service Provider Future Success Enterprise IT is changing how it deploys and consumes technology. This means that everyone who sells products or services to enterprise IT must start to think differently about how they go to market. Enterprise IT strategies are changing so fast that it’s getting harder […]
In our blog series Building A Cloud Aware Enterprise, we detailed NetApp IT’s path to a software-defined, cloud-based data center with end-to-end DevOps workflow automation. We call this our Next Generation Data Center (NGDC). As the senior director for technology, strategy, and innovation within the infrastructure team, my role is to build and run the […]
Hey. Hey. It’s Your Birthday! I couldn’t let this milestone pass without a little plug. A little over a year ago, we announced the general availability of NetApp HCI. And what a year it has been! Congratulations to NetApp® HCI on its birthday and looking forward to what’s to come. …and there are […]
This week on the podcast, we find out what a great fit VMware Private Cloud is on NetApp HCI with the Storage Janitor, Andy Banta and HCI Solution Engineer Sean Howard, as well as what they’ll be up to at NetApp Insight in Barcelona. Each week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast discusses all-things NetApp, interviews subject-matter […]
NetApp® Element Software, the magic powering both our NetApp HCI and NetApp SolidFire® infrastructures, releases its newest edition today. With Element 11.0, NetApp HCI and SolidFire deployments continue to be more flexible, protected, and simple. As part of our announcements at Insight Las Vegas, customers leveraging both Element 11.0 and ONTAP 9.5 can benefit […]
In the early 2000s, we saw a major shift in enterprise strategies for managing application placement. For decades, critical applications were placed on faster and more reliable equipment, while noncritical applications were placed on progressively slower, more cost-effective equipment. As we entered the digital era, in which entire businesses now rely on IT services, the […]
NetApp® HCI launched one year ago, and if you were at VMworld this week, you got to participate in the celebration. NetApp HCI is designed to deliberately not follow the pack. The design recognizes that the market demand requires a disruptive HCI technology that integrates compute and storage, coupled with deep virtual machine […]
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