Most, if not all IT shops, are continually looking for opportunities to reduce costs, deliver efficiency, and be prudent with their time. Automation with custom scripts is a common approach. Yet maintaining these scripts is cumbersome and time consuming. As data management experts, NetApp leans on tools like RedHat Ansible to automate software provisioning, […]
In terms of modern-day IT, the amount and type of data received is different from the past. Historically, data has been structured, transaction-oriented, and constantly updated. At the same time, the way applications interact with data has been stateful, atomic (database) transactions. The data growth that many companies are seeing today, however, is a different […]
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 […]
As NetApp transforms its current hybrid cloud into the next generation data center (NGDC), NetApp IT has prioritized building a development platform for cloud aware applications using cloud aware application architectures through DevOps and automated deployment cycles. The team has set a target via application rationalization for the next 3-5 years, that 70% of […]
At NetApp we use Splunk® Enterprise software to index, collect, monitor and analyze large amounts of real-time data. This technology acts like a great big correlation engine digesting machine data for a wide variety of applications inside NetApp. Flexible, Scalable Infrastructure With Splunk churning so much data, we needed fast, high performing storage. We selected […]
In the latest NetApp IT case study, big data infrastructure architect Praveen Beedanagari of the NetApp Hadoop Infrastructure team explains how NetApp leverages a three-tiered approach to provide a flexible, efficient, and cost-effective archival solution that can deliver results now and in the future. In 2012, NetApp began developing an analysis solution using Apache […]
NetApp has been in business for over 25 years, long before the Internet became popular and cloud-aware application architecture came into existence. Many of our enterprise applications at NetApp are customized from their original form with spaghetti-like integration points and add-ons. These complex, heavily customized apps complicate business processes, increase operational costs, magnify security exposures, […]
This the first in a series of blogs on how NetApp IT is making meaningful changes to move from traditional IT infrastructure toward next generation data centers. This series will cover not only the technology involved, but the people and process components to ensure IT’s success. Part 1: Our future uncentered (next generation) data center […]
Necessity is the mother of all invention. At least when you work in IT and support global resources that include approximately 5,000 servers, over 1,500 network devices, and 50+ PBs of storage. As a result, NetApp’s IT environment generates a constant flow of alerts. Our eternal challenge is getting better at identifying the root cause […]
I started my career managing traditional data centers housed in large, brick and mortar facilities with sprawling footprints and dedicated everything. Then came the game changers: hyperscale computing, flash storage, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Services on demand and visibility to data became an IT imperative. At NetApp we wanted to take advantage of these game […]
NetApp IT has integrated the storage performance data and capacity metrics from NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI) into a real-time, self-service portal in their Configuration Management Database (CMDB) within ServiceNow. The result has been a fully integrated configuration mapping of assets from business services down to the exact storage volume. The integration between the NetApp […]
As a member of the NetApp® IT Customer-1 program, one of my roles is to help our product teams improve the implementation design and architecture of NetApp products. Recently I collaborated with the NetApp StorageGRID® product team on a technical report describing how to select and implement load balancers for use with StorageGRID. As stated […]
Ezra Tingler
Ken Lee
David Fox
Robert Stumpf
Han Jo
Praveen Beedanagari
Rajesh Shriyan
Michael Morris
Ed Wang
Stan Cox
Sreedhar Mattaparthy
Yahshanulla Syedshaw