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, […]
This week on the podcast, ONTAP Virtualization TME Karl Konnerth joins us to give us the latest in VMware best practices for ONTAP, as well as a primer on VVols and what the latest functionality is in vSphere 7.2! For more information, read Karl’s recent blog about VVols & ONTAP or check out […]
One of the great strengths of ONTAP® has been its ability to scale out across multiple nodes, as well as scale up to higher performance storage controllers (such as the recent NVMe all-flash AFF A800 system). This scale-out capability is especially useful for VMware vSphere. Over half of all ONTAP systems run vSphere workloads, and […]
I am happy to announce an update of our VVol TR-4400, VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes with ONTAP. You may download the updated TR with the same URL used previously: https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4400.pdf. I might be weird in this respect, but I enjoy reading product manuals. But even though the prior VVol technical report was well written, […]
We are in a digital transformation. Companies are transforming exponentially to modernize and simplify the current system for the customers. And it requires a fundamental shift in a way how an organization think, process and execute. With the huge growth in technology, a single company cannot build all solutions for their end customers and rely […]
This week on the podcast, NetApp Senior Technical Director Santosh Rao joins us to talk about how NetApp and NVIDIA are partnering to enhance AI solutions with the DGX-1, ONTAP and FlexGroup volumes using NFS! Additional Resources: NetApp Infocenter: What is Artificial Intelligence? NetApp Solutions: AI & Deep Learning Whitepaper: Scalable AI Infrastructure Blog: Is Your IT Infrastructure Ready to Support AI […]
In May, NetApp launched new products and solutions to help our customers accelerate their businesses with world-class data services across the hybrid cloud. A key part of that announcement was the launch of NetApp® ONTAP® 9.4 software, the next big enhancement to the data management software that powers the industry’s fastest, most cloud connected enterprise […]
This week on the podcast, we dish out information on one of NetApp’s best-kept secrets – the supportability team! Join us as we uncover the work Matt Mercer, Scott Morris, Kunal Raina and Matt Trudewind are doing in the trenches to improve the overall customer experience for support of NetApp products. Also, don’t forget to […]
In my last blog post, I discussed the challenges of using Git as the version control system (VCS) for source code development. In this post, I discuss how Git’s traditional approach to code commits consumes time and infrastructure, and how NetApp® ONTAP® and NetApp AFF can make commits more efficient. Git provides pre- and […]
This week on the podcast, FabricPool Lifeguard/TME John Lantz discusses the latest enhancements to the cloud-connected feature in ONTAP 9.4, as well as the technical details behind how FabricPool works. Each week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast discusses all-things NetApp, interviews subject-matter experts, and provides insights into the storage industry. Follow the hosts on Twitter: Justin Parisi and Andrew […]
The NetApp® In-Place Analytics Module (formerly known as NFS Connector for Hadoop) enables analytics software such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark to access data by using the NetApp ONTAP® data management software, the Network File System (NFS) protocol, and a simple configuration file change. By using ONTAP software, the NetApp In-Place Analytics Module decouples […]
During the build process, developers check out the developer branch from the source code repository, pull prebuild artifacts like compilers or runtime environments, libraries from binary repositories, and compile source code to generate the binary or an executable. The builds are of two types: user builds that developers run in their workspace, and continuous […]
Ezra Tingler
Justin Parisi
Karl Konnerth
Stiffy Sunny
Jeff Baxter
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Mike McNamara