As the senior IT manager leading the engineering team that designs and deploys data storage solutions at NetApp, I know two things: Cloud, DevOps, *aaS (anything as a service) and growing infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes are changing the way we deliver IT and deploy modern applications. Despite the number of folks who unwittingly […]
One of the greatest challenges in a data center is balancing the two biggest expenses: power and capacity. Historically, as the two costs increased together, more racks of hardware and more power would be needed. Today, the relationship has changed as compute and storage capabilities increase and power consumption drops. At NetApp, we are […]
Like many companies, NetApp runs some old, large enterprise applications that are maintained like zombies. Barely kept alive, these apps are important to the company yet are complicated to keep updated and are expensive to support. As the IT leader for the developers who focus on custom business app development inside NetApp, my team and […]
As an IT architect who works on big data and cloud platform solutions, one common challenge is uploading files, especially files larger than 1TB. The problem becomes exasperated when there is no browser plug-in for a reliable and secure upload. We solved this problem inside NetApp IT by implementing a highly scalable, reliable, and […]
I have worked in IT for over 25 years and am intrigued by how the world is being changed by software. It feels like every company today is defined by their ability to rapidly meet customer’s needs via software. This software driven world demands rapid application development. Regardless if it is an IoT solution, a […]
Over the past 18 months 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 […]
Many IT organizations are implementing DevOps practices to realize the benefits that companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and others have been experiencing for years. They want to deliver features faster, improve the stability of applications, and move from a reactive delivery organization to one of innovation. No doubt these are great benefits, yet you cannot […]
Embarking on an enterprise cloud journey without an application strategy is a recipe for disaster and will result in higher costs and disappointments for the organization. The first step in our cloud journey was to determine the right cloud solution―we call it target state architecture (TSA)—for all business applications in the enterprise portfolio. Inside NetApp, […]
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. […]
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