Simplicity is no longer a theme with NetApp® Active IQ® Unified Manager, it’s a continuous improvement cycle. A cycle that brings goodies for customers in all spheres with every release, whether it’s better NetApp ONTAP® management or simplified operational monitoring capabilities. The Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7 release announces several enhancements, exciting new features, and […]
The exabyte-scale data future is here. Complex new data pipelines from cutting-edge applications, machine-generated data, and IoT endpoints are all flowing into massive unstructured data repositories. NetApp built the network-attached storage (NAS) industry over 27 years ago and we’ve continued to innovate into this new era of scale-out NAS for unstructured file-based data management at […]
It’s late-October, which means it’s almost Halloween. It’s also time for NetApp® Insight, our customer conference in Las Vegas – as well as another update to our NetApp ONTAP® ecosystem. We know you need to efficiently and securely manage your company’s data across your hybrid cloud, so every six months we roll out a new […]
This technical blog presents an overview of the FlexPod® Datacenter platform, highlighting NetApp® ONTAP® 9.6 MetroCluster™ IP (Internet Protocol) features and capabilities. It also discusses an example FlexPod MetroCluster IP solution configuration that companies can adopt to create a flexible, scalable, and highly available converged infrastructure in which the MetroCluster storage clusters can be separated […]
At NetApp, providing our customers with simple ways to increase their security is a top priority. Our 25+ years of innovation across our portfolio includes new security features for our ONTAP data management software. This innovation was recently recognized at the most recent Flash Memory Summit in early-August. NetApp, along with Ontrack, a leader in […]
In the previous blog, I introduced you to RESTful APIs natively available with NetApp® ONTAP® 9.6 software and described how, compared with the NetApp ONTAPI™ application, the ONTAP REST APIs offer a vastly simplified workflow-driven user experience. The new ONTAP object model establishes REST API categories that clearly identify blocks of common functionality. This […]
In large organizations, data is created across multiple sites, from corporate headquarters to branch offices across geographically disparate locations. And those organizations may want to use that data in different ways. A global high-tech manufacturing company generating IOT data in the cloud may want to leverage the same data for machine learning on-premises Developers […]
NetApp and Broadcom recently published a new NetApp® Verified Architecture: a best practice reference architecture that illustrates an optimally configured VMware installation on NetApp ONTAP® 9.6 and Broadcom technology (Emulex 32GB HBAs and Brocade 32GB FC switches). If you manage, administer, or purchase VMware-virtualized configurations or use VMware with SAN or NAS storage, read NVA-1136-Design. […]
If you’ve ever taken a ride on high-speed rail around the world, you know it’s smooth, fast and comfortable. These systems use continuously welded rails and advanced rolling stock to deliver a better travel experience. As we turned to the next generation of VMware vSphere client software, we used this opportunity to smooth the […]
According to IDC’s Worldwide Global DataSphere Forecast, 2019–2023: Consumer Dependence on the Enterprise Widening, the amount of data that will be stored in the core data center is forecasted to double between 2014 to 2023. While organizations are planning capacity builds to accommodate this, let’s look at how to determine the right balance of […]
This week on the podcast, we bring in networking guru Richard Scheffenegger to discuss how networking performance over long distance WANs is crazy fast thanks to the implementation of CUBIC TCP in ONTAP 9.6. Dan Isaacs also joins us for a discussion with Richard about RDMA. We talk a bit about the following graphs […]
You’re probably familiar with the saying of “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.” The implication being that if you do use a single basket, you’re at risk of losing all of those precious eggs. This saying has many different applications depending on what aspect of life you’re talking about. When it comes […]
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