For the on premises and private cloud environments, NetApp IT has a mature and productive operational support model that is well managed, has proven processes and established metrics, and results in little or no business disruptions. But that wasn’t always the case. When I started with NetApp in late 2011, we were experiencing Priority-1 (P1) […]
One of my roles as a member of the NetApp® IT Customer-1 program is to implement, design, and architect NetApp StorageGRID® for our object storage requirements. Our StorageGRID deployment consists of multiple Storage Nodes and is deployed across many sites. The Storage Nodes provide service endpoints for applications and manage the storage, replication, metadata, and so […]
Storage capacity, efficiency, and performance are key responsibilities that my colleagues and I manage as part of the enterprise IT storage team at NetApp. We currently maintain approximately 75 PB of storage and 450 storage controllers supporting hundreds of corporate business applications. To best manage our environment, we have relied on several NetApp solutions in […]
As a certified application integration and security architect, I understand the traditional data center security approach to monolithic applications. The apps are typically heavily customized, inefficiently designed, and can reside on unpatched servers with poor admin control. Network port ambiguity can also exist because the app owners don’t know what ports their apps run on. […]
The crux of IT tech support is simple: How fast can you identify and successfully resolve an incident? The complexity lies in the details, especially when handling hundreds of tasks per day. Recently, NetApp IT began automating the process to resolve incidents without human intervention, particularly those first-level incidents that experience a high-volume of […]
Business intelligence (BI) is undeniably crucial. Data is king, and business leaders want to quickly―and securely―tap into it to gain competitive insight, go to market faster, and make the best possible tactical and strategic decisions. The key to success is real-time data analytics. At NetApp, real-time data analytics capability is limited because of our […]
As a data driven company, NetApp relies on data science, business intelligence (BI) and analytics to learn, improve, and predict from a myriad of possibilities throughout the enterprise. As I discussed in my earlier blog on organizational structures for data scientists, data analytics is essential to planning and driving business. Data scientists, and their portfolio […]
How can organizations prepare their infrastructures for the future of DevOps and IT? Matt Watts, NetApp’s data strategist and director of technology, recently sat down for a discussion with colleagues Nancy Hart, head of marketing for Cloud Infrastructure, and Robert Stumpf, senior director of IT for Enterprise Solutions Delivery, to find out. Here are three […]
This week on the podcast, we invite in the guys from Customer One, who operate the NetApp on NetApp program. NetApp on NetApp is a program where we leverage the latest NetApp technologies within our own organizations. Eduardo Rivera and Faisal Salaam as we discuss how NetApp is using FlexGroup volumes to power Active IQ. […]
One of the main priorities for our IT shop in 2019 is to deliver rapid, frequent business software capabilities through automation and cloud technologies. In a recent NetApp IT eBook called Building A Cloud-Aware Enterprise, we shared the vision of our Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) as a software-controlled and orchestrated development platform to build […]
When introducing our next generation data center (NGDC) platform inside NetApp, we wanted to meet certain minimum viable product (MVP) features including the capability to allow rapid, frequent production change through Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). We wanted our developers focused on writing code and rapidly releasing application changes, and not be concerned about other […]
Data analytics are essential to planning and driving modern business. Furthermore, data scientists and their portfolio of methods and tools are the key to unlocking the most value from our data and improving our odds of success. But what is the right relationship between IT and business functions to best promote the healthy and scalable […]
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