Working from home over the past 3 weeks has given me the chance to do a few things: I cleaned my home office, caught up on email and project work, and finally started to plan my training for the next couple of months. Over the last few years, I have been turning to more […]
Sometimes two good things are even better when they’re paired together, like: Key and Peele teaming up to do their comedy skits Watching the Super Bowl on a large-screen 4K Ultra-HD TV (if you couldn’t get tickets to the game) It’s the same with the NetApp® portfolio. Individual NetApp solutions deliver strong customer value on […]
All the news you don’t want to miss. Hello from London! It was a great two days at Google Next ’19 UK last week, with more than 7,000 attendees from all over the world. NetApp dominated the show as we advanced our strategic partnership with Google to drive innovation in the cloud. […]
Today we’re excited to jointly announce with Google Cloud, the general availability of Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) and Cloud Volumes Service (CVS) for Google Cloud, the availability of CVS in the United Kingdom and support for Anthos on CVO, CVS and NetApp HCI. This milestone means CVS and CVO are live, publicly available from Google […]
Azure NetApp® Files was announced as generally available at the end of May 2019. With Azure NetApp Files and Cloud Volumes ONTAP®, Azure customers can use NetApp technology that is deeply integrated into the Azure cloud to optimize their SAP system operation. With Azure NetApp Files they can use the NetApp enterprise-grade NFS file system […]
I recently had a lot of time to play with NetApp’s new cloud services including Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) and Azure NetApp Files (ANF). In these 2 blog posts, I’ll describe my experiences with both CVO and ANF. I think these are great products that you can’t get inside of Azure or AWS by themselves. […]
NetApp has recently announced Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This makes CVO available on all three major cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. What is CVO? Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) is a virtual ONTAP instance that lives in the cloud. CVO supports all of the features that […]
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 […]
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, […]
Listening to cloud evangelists and cloud providers, it sounds like moving SAP systems to the cloud should be an easy task. And in fact, customers have many options to move or copy a system to the cloud. For most customers, this move can involve significant changes in system configuration and daily operations, including intense testing […]
Today, many businesses are using Microsoft Azure to accelerate their SAP deployments, reduce costs, and increase agility for their business processes. Many customers using NetApp® Clustered Data ONTAP® for their on-premises data center also want to embrace the same features and deep SAP integration when moving their SAP systems to Microsoft Azure. Cloud Volumes ONTAP®, […]
This blog post is part 2 of my discussion on Active IQ. For background, read part 1. This year’s early technology predictions have all had one consistent point: forecasting growth in the adoption of multicloud. Many organizations have invested in cloud for the speed, automation, flexibility, and elasticity that it brings. However, the cloud […]
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