The accelerating shift to the hybrid cloud has forever changed the management of data-centric applications, and it’s also turning the traditional IT spending model on its head. For decades, IT spending largely centered around balancing ongoing costs for things like licensing, energy, and maintenance with significant, cyclical investments, or capital expenditures (capex), every few […]
It seems like everyone talks about how cloud solutions reduce costs, increase efficiency, and make automation possible. However, when you drill into the available solutions, you find that many of them require significant ramp-up time or startup costs to achieve results. It makes you wonder about the real ROI. When NetApp IT’s automation and […]
Web-based, microservices-based application architectures are playing a major role for IT teams that are supporting enterprise applications today, especially NetApp IT business app developers. Using their DevOps framework, the IT team set out to build cloud-native apps using microservices architectures running in containers. They started by rebuilding NetApp’s award-winning Support site, the main channel […]
Even as a teenager I was fascinated with developing software. My parents called it my obsession. Since I entered the field of software development, the practices have evolved and so I have seen quite a lot of trends come and go. But there is one trend from recent years that has come to stay. And […]
As applications rapidly migrate to public and private clouds, application developers like me are expecting more from traditional enterprise infrastructure. Simply providing servers and storage in a corporate data center, even in a cost-effective way, is no longer adequate. Inside NetApp, our IT Infrastructure team embraced this demand and built a highly automated, self-service, cloud-based application […]
Speed is mandatory in application development today. Inside NetApp IT, we have built a cloud-based, automated, self-service platform called CloudOne, which lets us rapidly deliver infrastructure to help shorten application development cycles. It offers the push-button deployment of an entire application development environment that includes the application code, a database, components, network interfaces, and a […]
As the first and earliest adopters of our own products, my infrastructure team, called Customer-1, runs NetApp® products in support of NetApp’s global enterprise. We also provide feedback to the product teams on our experience and recommend product improvements. We have a large-scale storage fleet of more than 100PB of raw storage with 450 storage […]
NetApp Active IQ provides customers and partners with actionable intelligence on their NetApp environment via a dashboard that summarizes performance, availability, capacity forecasting, health summary, case histories, upgrade recommendations, and more. Every week the system generates about 100TB of data and 225 million files―and it is growing! As the team responsible for IT operations and […]
When introducing our CloudOne 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 IT services like servers, storage, […]
Over the past couple years I have been part of an exciting NetApp IT initiative to build a DevOps platform that provides the cloud services, automation, and CI/CD release models that our application development teams need to build cloud native applications. We call the platform CloudOne as it provides one consistent developer experience, irrespective of […]
As storage management experts, NetApp IT leans on tools like Red Hat Ansible to help automate the delivery of consistent storage environments, reduce configuration errors, and respond to threshold limits. Two years ago, our team started using ONTAP® Ansible modules to reduce day 0 build times from a 2-day manual process to a 10-minute automated […]
Every day, hundreds of NetApp technical support engineers (TSE) troubleshoot customer cases on the front lines. They are superheroes who handle 15,000 cases each month. Yet these heroes were using “swivel chair” processes to navigate among nine separate systems to find and capture case data, support bulletins, known bug information, and knowledge base articles. They […]
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