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 […]
The introduction of PaaS to the NetApp portfolio offers exciting possibilities for NetApp IT storage. Integrating this feature set into our enterprise IT strategy is one of our top priorities. A cloud-based, automated, self-service infrastructure will enable IT to rapidly deliver platforms to help shorten development cycles and adapt to changing environments. The Challenge […]
Don’t be surprised if you see the NetApp IT storage team busy doing other tasks during ONTAP® upgrades these days. Thanks to the power of the First Application System Test (FAST) program, which supports early adoption of ONTAP, the Customer-1 program is upgrading to the latest version of ONTAP with absolutely no disruption. In […]
The hybrid cloud is the new reality for most IT organizations. Depending on their business drivers, organizations find that certain workloads are best suited for public cloud while others for private cloud. As organizational needs change and maturity evolves, these workloads constantly migrate between these clouds. Private and public clouds need to be extensions of […]
The NetApp IT storage team has been challenged to find ways to balance the need for increasing capacity due to growing data demands while remaining as efficient as possible. This has demanded out-of-the-box thinking when it comes to storage, some of which we have described in past blogs. With each ONTAP release, we incorporate […]
Many high-tech companies consider their own IT organization as the first and best customer for their products. IT can quickly deploy, test, and provide feedback on new products in real production environments before the products are in general release. This feedback is particularly critical in identifying and addressing issues and features that don’t rise to […]
Praveen Beedanagari
Rajesh Shriyan
Michael Morris
Ed Wang
Stan Cox
Sreedhar Mattaparthy
Yahshanulla Syedshaw
David Fox
Ram Kodialbail
Gopi Sirineni
Ezra Tingler
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