One Billion End Users Receive Cloud Services Built on NetApp

Cloud computing has swiftly moved from industry hype to a top IT
initiative, with more CIOs building a private cloud, evaluating service
providers for public cloud services, or employing a hybrid model that
combines the best of both.

Through a global ecosystem of cloud partners and a product portfolio
that offers new integrated cloud management capabilities and
pre-validated cloud infrastructure solutions, NetApp, Inc. helps enterprise customers accelerate and simplify their transition to private, public, and hybrid cloud models.

NetApp is announcing new technologies within NetApp OnCommand management software
that control, automate, and analyze the shared storage infrastructure
for optimization and service efficiency. And to extend these
capabilities beyond storage for a complete enterprise cloud
infrastructure service, NetApp is enhancing its Alliance Technology Partner Program
with the inclusion of cloud management leaders, enabling integration
between industry-leading cloud management solutions and NetApp OnCommand
to provide end-to-end management of the full-stack cloud
infrastructure.

"IT leaders are seeking alternatives that help them keep pace with
the demands of their business today while allowing them to adapt and
evolve as their business grows," said Val Bercovici, cloud czar at NetApp. "Winners
in this market are thinking, choosing, and behaving differently.
Enterprises, government organizations, and partners are turning to
NetApp to help them transition to a flexible and efficient shared IT
infrastructure – the foundation for cloud computing – that will help
them be ready for the future and enable IT to accelerate business
growth."

NetApp provides the storage foundation for cloud with the NetApp Unified
Storage Architecture and a set of storage and data management
capabilities built on Data ONTAP. NetApp’s shared IT infrastructure
provides a secure, multi-tenant solution that can dynamically scale up
or back down to meet changing demand. Enterprise customers can
transition to a private cloud environment at their own pace as their
business grows, without disrupting their IT infrastructure.

NetApp’s new OnCommand management software delivers four fundamental
elements that compose a cloud: service catalog, service analytics,
automation, and self-service. The new NetApp OnCommand unified manager
enables the creation of a storage service catalog and provides
policy-based automation, including provisioning, data protection, and
service monitoring. In addition, new NetApp OnCommand Insight provides
the service analytics for storage and the rest of the infrastructure so
customers have the visibility and knowledge needed to optimize a cloud
service delivery. This includes usage-based metering, service-level
monitoring, and performance and capacity modeling and planning.

Building on its Alliance Technology Partner Program, NetApp has
integrated nearly 20 enterprise cloud management partners, including
BMC, CA, Fujitsu, Microsoft, newScale, Tivoli, and VMware. These
partners’ cloud management software solutions enable automation and
management of the cloud infrastructure and integrate with NetApp
OnCommand to incorporate NetApp’s storage into a full-stack
orchestration to increase flexibility and efficiency while reducing
overall total cost of ownership and complexity.

Last June, NetApp officially launched its Partner Program for Service
Providers, which was the first of its kind in the storage industry and
today includes more than 30 service providers delivering more than 50
cloud services around the world. The program is a part of NetApp’s
strategy to broaden and leverage its diverse pathways to reach customers
and has helped provide cloud services built on NetApp to over one
billion end users.

In November, NetApp unveiled new platform features, products, and
technologies – including the first Cisco and NetApp FlexPod solution
with VMware – to help customers transition to a shared IT
infrastructure, the foundation for cloud computing. And with more than
150 customers having already implemented joint data center solutions
based on the FlexPod design architecture, last month NetApp and Cisco
introduced a new design guide for FlexPod that supports SAP
applications, as well as the new NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with
Cisco in collaboration with Microsoft, giving partners and customers
flexibility and freedom of choice as they transition to the cloud.
Global and regional system integrators are leveraging these integrated
private cloud solutions and tailoring them to each customer’s business
requirements.

Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst at ESG, said: "Our
research consistently shows that material business process improvements
and cost reductions are the easiest way to justify IT investments. The
promise of cloud implementations, including private, public, and hybrid
approaches, is to deliver on both: making business more agile while
making IT more efficient. Thus there are substantial pressure and
opportunity for those organizations and cloud service providers to build
innovative, economic, and secure infrastructures. Today’s NetApp
announcements focusing on service automation and analytics are destined
to be a cornerstone for any cloud environment because these capabilities
along with adjoining partners’ feature sets help optimize service
levels at the lowest possible cost."

Jorge Pazos, Chief Information Officer for City of Melrose, said: "The
regionalization of IT services is an initiative being pursued by the
City of Melrose as a means to reduce the time and money municipalities
spend managing IT and shift the focus from managing infrastructure to
consuming IT services. Our first step was to build a private cloud that
would provide the flexibility, scalability, and security required to
deliver a broad set of services efficiently and cost effectively. We
chose Cisco, NetApp, and VMware as the best-in-class shared
infrastructure for our cloud, and already we have realized a 40% savings
in costs."

George L. Reed II, Chief Information Officer of Seven Corners, Inc., said: "In
our industry, the first company to deliver new services typically
captures over 50% of the revenue opportunity. The agility and
flexibility we’ve gained from moving to a private cloud help us deliver
products faster, quickly identify our most productive programs, and
rapidly capitalize on successes. Upon project completion, we plan to
store 100% of our data on NetApp and deliver all of our IT services
based on a shared infrastructure from Cisco, NetApp, and VMware."

John George, Senior VP and Chief Information and Innovation Officer, Vangent, Inc., said: "Our primary focus is on providing information management and business
process services that help federal and international governments, higher
education institutions, and corporations achieve greater flexibility
and efficiency that allows them to be more competitive. To deliver on
these capabilities, we turned to NetApp, Cisco and Microsoft to provide a
secure and robust shared infrastructure for our enterprise private
cloud. The efficiencies we achieve by using the NetApp Hyper-V Cloud
Fast Track with Cisco solution enables us to give our customers the
performance and flexibility they need at an affordable price, delivering
on the promise of cloud computing in a unique way."