There’s no question that the success of the cloud has changed our daily lives, from the way we work, to the way we learn, to the way we socialize. Cloud has also changed the expectations for the way IT services are delivered. We’ve become accustomed to the simple, fast, and efficient model of consuming IT […]
Let’s start off with, why should you care about disaster recovery orchestration? Disaster recovery orchestration helps companies to: Prepare failover plans (a collection of commands that orchestrate, for example, a VM failover to recovery). Practice test failovers (test failovers that happen on an isolated network); and practice real failovers (a real failover in a disaster […]
NetApp HCI is a compelling solution for modern datacenters by offering independent scaling of compute or storage nodes, Quality of Service for granular application performance control, multi-tenancy for multiple applications to share the same resources, the ability to scale storage and compute resources independently, and advanced data services including replication and protection domains. However, until […]
The hybrid cloud model is here to stay. Public cloud providers offer a simple, fast, and efficient model to consume required IT services and help optimize budgets. However, organizations still need to address the other half of the hybrid model. On-premises environments are still often the best—or only—choice to meet specific business, compliance, and operational needs. These requirements have […]
NetApp® HCI and NetApp SolidFire® are built to serve customers with high demands. It doesn’t matter what size the enterprise is; our customers need shared IT infrastructure at scale. Our customer environments are dynamic and unpredictable, and they’re experiencing rapid growth. As they have grown, they have been thriving on the industry-leading SolidFire technology architecture. And we have always looked for ways to improve not just the technology, but also the consumption and commercial models for deploying storage in these dynamic environments. That’s why we’re committed to providing flexibility with a new term-capacity licensing model. […]
For Christmas of 2018, my dad, whose technology proficiency can best be described as limited, gave me an Amazon Alexa for Christmas. And my world changed. What did I do before I had a smart home device? Alexa reminds me to take out the garbage on Sunday evenings, plays perfect party music, and has helped […]
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) helped organizations reduce costs and complexity by consolidating compute, storage and networking into a single system. As business needs have shifted and IT teams are tasked with reducing silos, delivering and deploying apps in both public and private clouds, and creating a public cloud experience in the data center, a new architecture […]
What if you could easily manage all of your on-premises data from a single cloud interface? Wouldn’t that make creating volumes easy? Well, now you can! Like NetApp® Kubernetes Service (NKS) on NetApp HCI, NFS-based NetApp Cloud Volumes have been added to our cloud services offerings on-premises, now in preview mode. Cloud Volumes on NetApp […]
Every time I think about London, I remember a night in January of 1980 when I was asked by a school friend, “Are you doing anything tonight?” When I said no, he said, “Well you are now…” That is how I was introduced to The Clash, and it changed my life. The thing that struck […]
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 […]
I have visited a lot of customers over the years, and I know many of them are using Microsoft PowerShell to simplify their IT administration life. PowerShell makes it easier to automate and perform repetitive tasks, and many people just like using it. In fact, one of the libraries in PowerShell is a VMware scripting […]
How to get predictable performance while meeting the needs of your end users and your business Your employees need access to their desktops from anywhere in the world at any time, and to be able to collaborate in real time without delay. You need to make sure that your organization’s intellectual property is secure […]
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