In the most far-reaching innovation announcement in its 25-year
history, NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) today introduced new hybrid cloud
offerings that give customers unprecedented ability to use data for
competitive advantage.
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The announcements expand the company’s Data Fabric solutions and
services portfolio to include the industry’s first enterprise-scale
hyper converged solution (HCI), new consumption purchase models,
improved all-flash capabilities, and hybrid cloud offerings that
simplify moving data to and from the public cloud.
With digital transformation at the top of their agendas, global
business leaders need new ways to harness their most valuable asset
— their data. Time, skill, and budget gaps pose traditional
challenges, but organizations must also contend with exploding
volumes of data that are much more distributed, dynamic, and
diverse.
NetApp’s hybrid cloud innovations allow customers to break down
barriers to transformation by helping them to unify data across the
widest range of cloud and on-premises environments. When data is at
the heart of transformation, organizations are empowered to create
more customer touchpoints, foster greater innovation, and optimize
operations.
“Organizations that understand how to derive the full value from
their data will see their digital transformations drive greater
competitive advantage in the shortest amount of time,” said Simon
Robinson, Research vice president, at 451 Research. “To succeed,
customers need to change their mindsets on data management, to
liberate themselves from data siloes and seek approaches that unite
data no matter where it resides. NetApp’s expanded portfolio, with
its new HCI, hybrid cloud, and consumption model solutions,
provides the means to maximize the impact of data, no matter where
it lives, and create new value across the organization.”
“The organizations that are defining the future recognize that
unleashing the full potential of their data is essential for
effective digital transformation and long-term competitive
advantage,” said George Kurian, NetApp chief executive officer.
“NetApp is uniquely capable of helping customers to unify their
data to achieve success in the digital era. Today’s announcements
of enterprise-scale HCI and new hybrid cloud software and services
extend our Data Fabric architecture and leadership in providing
hybrid cloud data services that simplify management of applications
and data across clouds and on-premises environments.”
“Datalink helps clients ensure their application workloads are
aligned to the right platform to optimize business value. We have
long partnered with NetApp due to our shared vision of data
management as the foundation of on-premises, hybrid, and cloud
platforms using NetApp’s Data Fabric,” said Chief Architect Jason
Anderson, Datalink, an Insight company. “The SolidFire underpinning
for NetApp HCI has proven itself in our lab testing and in numerous
client deployments to have the stability, scale, performance, and
guaranteed quality of service needed for a truly enterprise-grade
HCI platform. We are excited by NetApp’s entry into the HCI market
and look forward to leveraging NetApp HCI as a catalyst to
transform and optimize IT to achieve intended business
outcomes.”
ANNOUNCEMENT HIGHLIGHTS
- Next-generation Data Center Solutions simplify, accelerate, and
scale application deployment:
NetApp HCI delivers world’s first enterprise-scale hyper
converged solution. Customers can break free from the limits of
first-generation HCI with NetApp HCI. This solution delivers on the
full promise of HCI, allowing customers to run multiple
applications with guaranteed performance and benefit from unmatched
flexibility, scale, automation, and integration with the Data
Fabric. Built on SolidFire® innovation, NetApp HCI gives
enterprises, mid-sized businesses, and service providers the
confidence to easily consolidate all workloads, scale in ways that
won’t strand resources, and deliver the performance required by
next-generation applications. With NetApp HCI, organizations can
unleash the complete power of their infrastructure with the ability
to simplify management and independently scale compute and storage
resources. NetApp HCI features integrations with partner solutions
including those from Commvault, Intel, MongoDB Enterprise, Veeam,
and VMware.
ONTAP® Select software-defined storage (SDS) optimized for new
use cases. New features have been added to NetApp ONTAP Select, SDS
software which delivers the value of NetApp’s proven data
management platform on commodity servers. A new remote
office/branch office solution addresses the space and cost
constraints of remote offices and ruggedized deployments with a
2-node, high availability configuration and broader support for
VMware vSphere licenses. Additionally, customers can deploy
enterprise NAS services in more diverse storage environments,
including VMware vSAN, with external storage arrays, and when
deploying the new NetApp HCI offering. ONTAP Select is also
available on IBM Bluemix infrastructure as a service for an
in-cloud offering. Customers can try ONTAP Select via a 90-day
evaluation.
- Hybrid Cloud Solutions offer freedom of choice in how to deploy
IT resources:
NetApp OnDemand consumption model brings cloud-like flexibility
to on-premises environments. This new technology service delivery
model simplifies purchase and management of data storage capacity.
It marries NetApp on-premises infrastructure with the flexibility
of a usage-based consumption model and the economic agility
benefits of public cloud, with customers paying monthly for
capacity consumed. The infrastructure is NetApp owned, customer
managed, providing organizations with control and governance of
their data management environment. When bundled with NetApp managed
services, NetApp or NetApp partners can provide a complete data
management as a service experience. OnCommand® Insight (OCI) adds
new functions to ease hybrid cloud migration. OCI is pioneering
software that provides hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring and
analytics across the Data Fabric. It offers a single means for
organizations that are embracing the cloud to manage and improve
their multi-vendor hybrid infrastructure. OCI enables faster
troubleshooting as well as optimization of resource usage, cost
awareness, and capacity and performance forecasting. Customers can
plan for migrations to the cloud by understanding the resources
that applications are consuming on-premises, and can then monitor
performance and capacity data of those applications once they are
living in the cloud.
- Data Center Modernization Solutions improve performance and
efficiencies:
New NetApp ONTAP software boosts all-flash performance,
efficiency, cloud data movement to modernize operations. The
industry’s leading data management software now brings new levels
of performance, efficiency, and cloud capabilities to NetApp All
Flash FAS (AFF) arrays, the world’s fastest and most
cloud-connected all-flash arrays. The availability of the
FabricPool feature, demonstrated at Insight 2016, delivers
automatic and transparent tiering of inactive data to the cloud,
further optimizing on-premises flash and reducing overall storage
costs by up to 40%. Expanded inline deduplication across multiple
pools of storage increases storage efficiency by as much as 30%,
building on NetApp’s leading data reduction technologies. New
performance controls, including Quality of Service minimum and
intelligent data placement, provide consistent performance for
business-critical applications.
NextCredit Program offers best future-proof assurance program in
the industry. With NextCredit, NetApp introduces the industry’s
most flexible future credit program. Customers who purchase
eligible AFF A Series models and associated support contracts, upon
exercising the renewal terms, will receive a flexible, fixed dollar
credit toward future purchase of NetApp products. These credits let
customers upgrade or build out their Data Fabric with new
technologies and capabilities, including cloud and SaaS-based
solutions, as they become available. It can be used in multiple
ways, from AFF controller upgrades, to new nodes in a Data Fabric
cluster, to licenses for ONTAP Cloud so customers can easily
connect with public cloud resources.
Insights on NetApp HCI Enterprise-scale
Solution
NetApp HCI is the first enterprise-scale hyper converged
infrastructure solution to provide compute, storage and networking
in agile, scalable, easy to manage 4-node building blocks. It is
designed on the foundation of SolidFire all-flash storage to
deliver guaranteed performance, automation, and mature integrated
efficiency, replication, data protection, and high availability
services.
Customers can confidently deploy NetApp HCI from the edge to the
core of the data center. They can expect to be up and running in
less than 30 minutes and to have more than 90% of their traditional
performance-related problems be eliminated. The VMware vCenter
plug-in provides full control of the entire infrastructure through
an intuitive user interface.
NetApp HCI is planned to be generally available in the fourth
quarter of 2017. The company has provided early access to the
innovations of NetApp HCI to a number of technology partners that
are integrating with the solution. Their perspectives include:
Commvault, Ralph Nimergood, vice president, Alliances and
Channels: “We are delighted to share the same vision as NetApp in
supporting our customers as they transform and deliver hybrid IT
services to their business and customers through today’s unveiling
of NetApp HCI. Integrating with NetApp HCI provides customers a
clear path to accelerate deployment and realize the potential value
stored in their most strategic asset — their data. We look forward
to supporting NetApp HCI as it comes to market and through our
Commvault Data Platform, giving customers peace of mind knowing
their data is always protected, accessible, and ready to use,
anywhere, anytime — in the cloud or on-premises.”
Intel Corporation, Jennifer Huffstetler, senior director,
Datacenter & Storage Products: “Intel and NetApp share a
commitment to enterprise computing and a passion for helping
customers identify and easily deploy the Intel Xeon processors and
networking technologies that will best ensure customer success in
the data-driven future. Our platform technology contributions to
NetApp’s new enterprise-scale HCI will help give organizations a
better way to guarantee quality of service. We expect NetApp HCI
will create opportunities that customers never imagined, providing
a path to scalable hybrid cloud deployments in their IT data center
transformation journey.”
MongoDB, Alan Chhabra, vice president, Worldwide Partners:
“MongoDB is the most popular modern database, used by innovators to
build mission-critical applications and to power their giant ideas.
NetApp HCI introduces the benefits of enterprise-scale hyper
converged infrastructures and gives customers a new approach to
consolidating traditional and next-generation apps. We are pleased
to have MongoDB Enterprise be part of this new wave of innovation
in data management.”
Veeam, Andy Vandeveld, vice president, Global Alliances: “Users,
whether at home, work or school, want a seamless digital experience
and anything less is unacceptable. Enterprises are having to
re-think their IT strategies and service models, and Availability
is of paramount importance. We welcome the opportunity to further
our relationship with NetApp on the introduction of NetApp HCI. Our
Availability capabilities, teamed with this new class of
enterprise-scale HCI, targets the growing need to mitigate risk,
save time, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs,
while always supporting customers’ current and future business
goals.”
VMware, Mark Lohmeyer, vice president, Products, Cloud Platform
Business Unit: “For 15 years, VMware and NetApp have partnered on
new capabilities to modernize the data center and make it easier
for enterprises to unleash the true power of their infrastructure.
NetApp’s new HCI solution builds on this strong partnership, which
has served mutual customers well, from evangelizing virtualization
to navigating the path to the software-defined data center and the
hybrid cloud. The NetApp solution will include VMware vSphere,
enabling mutual customers to continue to take advantage of our
proven collaboration.”
Additional Resources
- Read the announcement overview blog.
- Learn more about NetApp HCI.
- Explore cloud consumption options with our eBook.
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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