NetApp: Data Fabric Solutions and Services

NetApp, Inc. released new Data Fabric solutions and services that deliver the data management capabilities organizations need to accelerate success in the hybrid cloud era.

These offerings enable customers to manage data across whatever IT resource they choose, speeding innovation and enabling better business decisions.

“Management of digital data is essential for organizations to innovate faster and capture new revenue opportunities in a fast changing technology landscape. NetApp’s Data Fabric vision, solutions and services allow customers to realize the potential of hybrid cloud, helping them drive speed and scale while balancing cost and risk,” said Lee Caswell, VP, product, solutions and services marketing, NetApp. “Today’s announcements further strengthen the core role NetApp technologies hold as the foundation for the hybrid cloud, particularly our clustered Data ONTAP environment, which provides a single platform spanning flash, cloud and disk resources.”

Data Fabric, company’s vision for the future of data management, was unveiled a year ago at NetApp Insight, the company’s annual technical conference. Since then, the company has teamed with its well-established and growing ecosystem of partners and service providers to create integrated solutions and services that make the Data Fabric real.

Announcements include:

Data Fabric Solution Essentials, starter kits that make it easier for customers to become hybrid cloud ready and quickly see benefits as they evolve their infrastructures. Three new offerings target key IT challenges, focusing on accelerating applications, gaining control of shadow IT, and improving DR capabilities.

Data Fabric Enablement Services to help customers create their own data fabrics. NetApp experts can help customers identify optimal workloads for the cloud and gain the architectural design and deployment insights they need for success.
Expansion of cloud provider relationships: NetApp is a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner. Technology Partners provide tools which integrate with Google Cloud Platform to extend its reach and functionality. Customers can choose from more than 275 service providers to craft their hybrid cloud, with support for multi-cloud and multi-directional strategies and integration of resources that are on-premises, near-the-cloud and in-the-cloud.
Data security, additional media support, volume capacity increases and other enhancements to Cloud ONTAP, company’s software that allows customers to quickly deploy enterprise-grade storage in the cloud and automate data movement to and from their premises and Amazon Web Services.

NetApp AltaVault
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Enhanced security and other capabilities for AltaVault cloud-integrated storage solutions. These solutions speed recovery and reduce risk, enabling users to backup data with security to any cloud.
Get Started in the hybrid cloud with Data Fabric Solution Essentials
Data Fabric Solution Essentials are low barrier-to-entry starter kits help customers quickly see the benefits of a hybrid cloud model. The company has targeted three common use cases and broken down the barriers to moving, managing and protecting data across performance levels and locations.
Application Acceleration solution kit: Allows customers to quickly deploy a four-node flash and disk cluster for SQL Server or Oracle databases. The kit showcases the capabilities of company’s all-flash and clustered Data ONTAP to protect against data loss, provide high, consistent performance and deliver comprehensive data management across flash, disk and cloud resources using a single platform.
OpenStack solution kit with FlexPod: Enables customers to get up and running on an OpenStack private cloud in days, not months, with known costs and proven capabilities. This solution empowers corporate IT to deliver competitive cloud services at scale to internal business clients with the same speed and ease of a public cloud, while maintaining data control and reducing cost.
Snap-to-Cloud DR solution kit showcases the value of the cloud for maintaining BC and retaining control of business data for DR (DR) operations. Moving DR operations to the cloud reduces data center space and storage infrastructure, resulting in cost savings and flexibility. Includes a one-year license for the Cloud ONTAP software subscription as well as installation services and three years of support.
Data Fabric Enablement Services: These four services give customers greater confidence in embracing hybrid cloud strategies so they can build their own data fabrics. Organizations gain knowledge of workloads with affinity for the cloud and insight into architecting and deploying a hybrid cloud foundation.
Cloud Sourcing Strategy Workshop: Identifies and prioritizes business applications and aligns each to the most appropriate cloud model — private, public, or hybrid.
Service Catalog Design: Defines a set of storage services, clarifies service requirements, identifies standard configurations, and creates a service catalog to help customers meet their SLAs.
Service Platform Design: Rationalizes the infrastructure and designs service platforms to reduce complexity and operational disruption.
Private Storage for Cloud Implementation Service: Provides turnkey configuration and deployment of a hybrid cloud solution that enables a multi-cloud environment, delivered jointly by NetApp and partners.

Additional resources:
Find out how the Data Fabric benefits customer Tiscali
Hear perspective on the business value of Data Fabric in this video from NetApp’s CEO
More about our Data Fabric solutions here and how our partners benefit here
Get the deep dive on all things Data Fabric with this technical white paper
More about our cloud services