NetApp Expands Collaboration with Microsoft in Hybrid Cloud Data Services
June 06 2017 - 9:06PM
NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) today announced plans to expand its strategic
alliance with Microsoft to help enterprises accelerate digital
transformation for hybrid cloud.
Customers are evolving their data centers to integrate hybrid
cloud delivery models for greater agility. As they build out these
more flexible architectures, they want to retain the benefits of
proven on-premises methods that ensure data efficiencies,
protection, and insight. These integrations, however, can create
new compatibility issues, particularly with existing applications
that depend on file services.
NetApp intends to expand its collaboration with Microsoft to
include hybrid cloud data services, built on NetApp’s proven ONTAP®
software, that will deliver enterprise-grade data visibility and
insights, data access and control, and data protection and security
for customers moving to Microsoft Azure.
Collaboration areas include:
- Developing new cloud data services, based on NetApp ONTAP
innovation, that will be offered on the Azure cloud.
- Engineering collaboration to deliver a solution architecture
that will speed the migration of enterprise applications to Azure
and Azure Stack so that customers can unlock greater value from
their data.
- Integration of NetApp’s newly launched FabricPool
functionality, which reduces the cost of cold data by automatically
tiering it from on-premises to cloud, with Azure Blob Storage.
- Enablement of Azure as a backup destination for NetApp’s Cloud
Control SaaS offering, which provides backup, archive and
compliance services to enhance Microsoft Office 365
environments.
“Enterprises depend on Microsoft’s cloud innovation and its
broad portfolio of Azure cloud-integrated services to keep them
competitive in the fast-moving digital age,” said Anthony Lye,
senior vice president, Cloud Business Unit, NetApp. “This new
development in our strategic alliance will extend the reach of
NetApp’s world-class data services for Azure cloud and support
customers as they modernize their businesses and pursue new
opportunities for growth.”
Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud and Enterprise
Group, Microsoft Corp., added, “NetApp is a strategic hybrid cloud
data services partner for Microsoft Azure and a company whose data
solutions are used every day by enterprise customers around the
world. Working together we will deliver new solutions that
give customers using NetApp and Microsoft Azure even more freedom
to build and deploy applications, however they want.”
Both companies share a deep understanding of the needs of global
enterprises and offer numerous solutions that help customers
maximize the power of their data to achieve competitive advantage.
Their collaboration has helped to protect and increase the
availability of Microsoft application data assets, and provides a
flexible infrastructure to support virtualization and private cloud
deployments.
NetApp provides a number of hybrid cloud data services today
that support Azure:
- NetApp ONTAP Cloud for Azure, a virtual appliance that combines
data control with enterprise-class storage features such as
workload portability, dedupe, compression and backup. It works in
combination with NetApp OnCommand® Cloud Manager to provide a
simple, point-and-click environment to manage storage and ease
control of data in Azure.
- NetApp AltaVault™ hybrid cloud appliances for Azure reduce
time, cost, and risk with an efficient and a secure approach to
backing up cloud-based workloads. Using customers’ existing backup
software, AltaVault deduplicates, encrypts, and rapidly migrates
data to Azure Storage.
- NetApp Private Storage for Microsoft Azure provides a
cloud-connected storage architecture that allows enterprises to
build an agile cloud infrastructure that combines the scalability
and flexibility of Azure with the control and performance of NetApp
on-premises storage hosted in a co-location facility. NetApp
Private Storage for Azure solution architecture can be used with
data controlled by the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations
(ITAR) program.
The companies intend to provide additional updates on their
hybrid cloud initiatives in the fall at Microsoft Ignite.
About NetApp NetApp is the data authority
for hybrid cloud. We provide a full range of hybrid cloud data
services that simplify management of applications and data across
cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital
transformation. Together with our partners, we empower global
organizations to unleash the full potential of their data to expand
customer touchpoints, foster greater innovation and optimize their
operations. For more information, visit www.netapp.com.
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