NetApp SteelStore and Cloud Ontap Helps Customers Accelerate Adoption of AWS

NetApp, Inc. announced two new products, the SteelStore appliance and the Cloud Ontap system on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

SteelStore Appliance and Cloud Ontap for AWS

It helps customers integrate cloud storage resources in the way that works best for them. Now enterprises have additional options to extend their existing on-premises data management and data protection operations to AWS.

“The industry is in transition as enterprises look to take advantage of the economics and elasticity of the cloud while still maintaining control of their data,” said Phil Brotherton, VP cloud solutions group, NetApp. “Our goal is to give customers choice in how they consistently manage and transport data seamlessly across a blend of cloud and on-premises resources. Together, NetApp and AWS are bridging customers’ on-premises infrastructures with the massive scale and on-demand flexibility that AWS cloud provides.“

AWS offers enterprises compute and storage resources to use as they see fit. The Coud Ontap system on AWS enables customers to control their data in the cloud with the same management features of the Data Ontap OS and a familiar set of interfaces and tools they use on the premises today. Customers can also replace their traditional backup, archive, and recovery solutions with SteelStore cloud-integrated storage to securely and backup and recover their business data on AWS.

“The cloud is providing enterprise customers with a different consumption model for the critical IT resources that scale to meet the specific needs of their business,” said Terry Wise, director worldwide partner ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “With the NetApp cloud Ontap system and NetApp SteelStore appliance, customers have additional choice and flexibility when using AWS. These solutions help customers bridge the gap between their existing IT operations on the premises and the new IT operations developing in the cloud.“

Enterprise Data Management and Cloud-Integrated Storage
The Cloud Ontap system brings the power of clustered Data Ontap OS to the cloud with a software-only option to easily provision and manage storage on AWS. The Cloud Ontap will beavailable in the AWS Marketplace as two Amazon Machine Image (AMI) options-Cloud Ontap Explore and Cloud Ontap Standard – as well as a six-month subscription option available from NetApp.

AWS, platform provider to run Cloud Ontap services on its cloud environment,
providing customers with following benefits:

• The capacity they need – The Cloud Ontap system offers multiple performance and capacity options that provide the versatility to meet storage requirements.

• The ability to respond to changing demands – NetApp integrated data portability technologies enable movement of data and applications among cloud resources and providers.

• Enterprise capabilities in the cloud – Customers get simple, rapid deployment from AWS Marketplace of proven NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI data management on AWS.

NetApp SteelStore is available in 750 AMI, 2,030 AMI, and 3,030 AMI options on AWS, allowing organizations to backup, archive, and recover data stored on AWS and quickly return to operations within the cloud.

 NetApp SteelStore AMIs provide customers with following benefits:

• Openness – Customers can integrate the cloud into their existing backup, archive, and recovery strategy with the heterogeneous support of 85% of leading backup software providers.

• Efficiency – Customers can cut data volumes by up to 90% and transport times by up to 75%.

• Ironclad security and compliance – Enterprise data is kept safe and compliant in the cloud with the strong encryption of data on site, in transit, and at rest.

SteelStore is available directly from NetApp and its channel partners as a cloud-integrated backup appliance. It also supports NetApp StorageGRID Webscale, a massively scalable, software-defined object storage solution for large archives, media repositories, and web datastores.

Cloud Ontap is available on the AWS Marketplace. NetApp expects the SteelStore AMIs to be available during its 2015 fiscal third quarter.

The SteelStore cloud-integrated backup appliance is available from NetApp and its channel partners.