Collaboration Between Schneider Electric and NetApp

• Joint offer helps businesses simplify IT deployment, improve efficiency, and minimize risk
• Transforms the edge by improving access across any public, private, or hybrid cloud
• Reduces CapEx and OpEx by consolidating large, traditional infrastructures

Schneider Electric announced its collaboration with NetApp, Inc. to deliver the pre-validated Optimized Edge for NetApp HCI solution, which is built on HCI platform and designed for enterprise, remote/branch offices, and SMB spaces.

Optimized Edge for NetApp HCI combines edge computing infrastructure with an open and scalable on-premise hybrid cloud infrastructure to change the private cloud into a deployable region of customers’ multi-cloud. The solution is a compatible physical infrastructure solution that is integrated, pre-engineered, and pre-validated to help organizations of all sizes reduce deployment time, accelerate time to market, and minimize on-site and remote management.

“As enterprises transform to meet the needs of today’s digitally-driven world, they need the compute infrastructure necessary to support IoT applications with improved bandwidth, lower latency, and peak performance,” said Jim Simonelli, SVP, emerging businesses, secure power division, Schneider. “Together, Schneider and NetApp are innovating the traditional approach to hybrid cloud infrastructure to help businesses drive operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve efficiency across the enterprise.“

Enterprise-scale hybrid cloud capabilities take HCI to the next level
The solution offers enterprise-scale hybrid cloud capabilities that go beyond first-gen HCI limitations to help businesses transform their data centers and empower them to drive efficiencies while reducing operating costs. The latest collaboration between the two partners provides joint customers with purpose-built solutions that connect disparate data management and storage resources to drive digital transformation.

The co-innovated Optimized Edge for NetApp HCI solution allows customers to optimize and run multiple applications with guaranteed on-premise performance and independent scaling of both compute and storage resources. With it, customers can access data from any public, private, or hybrid cloud and streamline data management between on-premise and cloud storage.

Additional benefits include: 

• Flexibility to serve as a solution for any business, from enterprises to SMBs and remote offices, with deployment of a complete, pretested, optimized, energy-efficient IT solution. It works at any scale to help reduce deployment time and accelerate time-to-market.
• Simplicity delivered with vendor-neutral visibility and data-driven insights across devices. Optimized Edge for NetApp HCI is an enterprise-scale, hyper converged infrastructure that increases business agility by delivering predictable performance and simplified operations on a flexible and efficient cloud architecture.
• Differentiation is delivered with expert service and remote monitoring and troubleshooting support. Optimized Edge for NetApp HCI differs from existing market definitions and is architected with independent compute, storage, and networking, allowing customers to scale based on their disaggregated end-user business demands rather than architectural limitations. In addition, the solution’s storage architecture is built to prevent data locality issues, stranding of resources, and management overhead while providing guaranteed performance, data duplication, and data compression.

“Customers today need capabilities that will simplify infrastructure management and accelerate applications at the edge to unlock the value of their data and provide hybrid, multi-cloud solutions that drive efficiencies and reduce cost,” said Brett Roscoe, VP, product management, cloud infrastructure business unit, NetApp. “NetApp and Schneider are bringing together our technology expertise to deliver optimized edge solutions that go beyond traditional hybrid cloud offerings to empower businesses to achieve new competitive advantages.“

Simplify infrastructure management at the edge with EcoStruxure IT
For the ability to remotely monitor and manage these many environments, Schneider provides the EcoStruxure IT platform, which changes the way IT and data center professionals monitor and manage critical IT infrastructure on-premise, in the cloud, and at the edge. Businesses can also leverage EcoStruxure Asset Advisor – Schneider’s expert service bureau for 24/7 remote monitoring and troubleshooting support.

The two partners integrated edge solutions make it easy to monitor and manage edge infrastructure, so teams can focus on growing their businesses knowing that IT is not an obstacle.

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