Our definition of data center is no longer four walls. It’s a hybrid, multi-cloud platform where we can best get the resources and apps at the best price point and performance level. We refer to this as our next generation data center (NGDC). It is a software controlled and orchestrated development platform to build and […]
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 […]
A Gartner Research report recently caught my attention called “The Data Center is Dead, and Digital Infrastructures Emerge.” In the report, Gartner analyst David Cappuccio highlights strategies like prioritizing workload placement, building an ecosystem of visionary partners, investing in talent and training, and leveraging distributed digital infrastructure. All of these are valid for any IT […]
In our blog series Building A Cloud Aware Enterprise, we detailed NetApp IT’s path to a software-defined, cloud-based data center with end-to-end DevOps workflow automation. We call this our Next Generation Data Center (NGDC). As the senior director for technology, strategy, and innovation within the infrastructure team, my role is to build and run the […]
The NetApp IT Multimedia Group is responsible for the vast majority of the company’s video productions, producing over 350 live events and nearly double that amount of recorded productions for internal product teams and organization. The team is challenged with meeting growing demands and shrinking timelines for multi-camera live events, live broadcast events, scripted studio […]
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, […]
Michael Morris
Faisal Salam
Stan Cox
Ed Cho
Ezra Tingler
Ken Lee
David Fox
Robert Stumpf
Han Jo
Praveen Beedanagari
Rajesh Shriyan