NetApp scored #1 in multiple use cases in “Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities for Solid-State Arrays” and “Critical Capabilities for Hybrid Array Storage Systems” Evaluating a vendor for your storage needs can be overwhelming! There are so many factors to consider: Is the vendor experienced in your industry? Do their products have simple cloud-like manageability? […]
Gartner names NetApp a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Arrays …again. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. – Wayne Gretzky, hockey legend. Being an industry innovator sometimes means getting shots taken at you. At NetApp, we welcome it. It means […]
Data has become the lifeblood of organizations, and there is an unprecedented growth in unstructured data. Organizations are looking at monetizing the value of data so that they can manage the infrastructure more effectively and take calculative decisions based on the data rather than on hunch. No insights, then no direction Imagine being at a […]
IBM and NetApp are partnering on IBM Cloud Satellite to solve for operations complexity across multiple environments, including on premises, edge, and public cloud. Building, deploying, and running applications in these hybrid and multicloud scenarios can bring challenges like these that impact performance and user experiences: Latency issues that degrade the response time of a […]
Major League Baseball is playing the final games of the 2020 postseason, which reminds me of my favorite baseball comedy sketch by Abbott and Costello: Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know – third base! Great nicknames. This year I introduced one of our NetApp new college hires to the sketch. How […]
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 […]
Creativity, fueled by data solutions DreamWorks Animation brings new stories and characters to life every year. But one thing that’s remained the same is the company’s commitment to innovation in its data-driven infrastructure. This world-renowned animation studio has empowered its filmmakers with NetApp® technologies on every one of its CG films. For over 20 years, […]
Everyone knows that the quickest way to recover from a ransomware attack is to restore from backup. It sounds simple enough, but the actual restore process can be complex, not to mention slow. Has the backup data also been encrypted? Are the backups that I need still there? How much time will it take to […]
A priority for IT organizations is the ability to manage various levels of severity. “Severity” differs for every organization, depending on the use case. An event can be of high severity — for example, an emergency, alert, or error message — or it could be of low severity, as with a notice or informational message. […]
Organizations are very aware of ransomware and the dangers of infection. Yet many of those same organizations don’t really have a good idea of how to recover quickly and efficiently if they’ve encountered a ransomware attack. Unfortunately, not all organizations that pay the ransom end up getting their precious data back; it might remain encrypted […]
Suppose that you are a chief information security officer (CISO), chief technology officer (CTO), or IT manager, with responsibility for all the information systems in your organizations. Your team applies security patches to software and applications as soon as they come out. You’re not worried about viruses or malware, because, along with your blistering speed […]
NetApp® ONTAP® 9 data management software provides the foundation for a data fabric, which makes it easy to move your data where it’s needed across flash, drive, and cloud resources. To better align with your plans for adopting ONTAP releases, NetApp will deliver an ONTAP feature release twice per calendar year. With this consistent release […]