Simplifying the Transition to Software-Defined Data Centers, the NetApp OnCommand Portfolio Speeds Deployment & Eases Data Ma...
April 29 2014 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
Simplifying the Transition to Software-Defined Data Centers, the
NetApp OnCommand Portfolio Speeds Deployment and Eases Data
Management Challenges
Enhanced Storage and Data Management Software Automates Storage
Provisioning, Provides Deeper Analytics for Optimal Storage
Utilization, and Improves Service Delivery
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 29, 2014) - NetApp, Inc.
(NASDAQ: NTAP)
Glenn Rhodes, Senior Director of Product Marketing, NetApp "As
organizations begin the transition to software-defined service
delivery, optimal storage and data management will be critical to
their success. Organizations must have the ability to monitor
trends in their data center, understand performance goals and the
attainment of those goals, and improve control over their storage
environment. NetApp's new OnCommand product offerings directly
enable our customers to focus on rich, integrated, automated IT
service delivery."
News Summary
NetApp helps IT accelerate the industry transition to
software-defined data centers by providing a set of patented
storage and data management technologies designed to accelerate
storage provisioning, automate repetitive manual tasks, increase
availability, and improve operational efficiency in both SAN and
NAS environments.
NetApp today introduced OnCommand® Performance Manager, new
software to monitor and troubleshoot a customer's clustered Data
ONTAP® environment. In addition, the company introduced technology
updates to NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager, OnCommand Workflow
Automation, and OnCommand Insight, providing further storage
management, automation, and protection for faster IT service
delivery.
With OnCommand, enterprises of all sizes can better enable,
control, automate, and analyze a cost-efficient storage management
infrastructure. With Data ONTAP at their core, OnCommand tools help
IT optimize storage utilization, meet service-level agreements,
minimize risk, boost performance, and deliver nondisruptive
operations.
News Facts By
updating its OnCommand portfolio, NetApp now enables customers to
better control a clustered data ONTAP environment, driving down
storage costs, improving service delivery through open integration,
and maximizing investment by providing flexible reporting and cost
analysis for IT to C-level executives. Furthermore, the new
offerings include advanced analytics and fully integrated
monitoring of capacity, availability, performance, and protection
plus automation for a successful transition to a software-based
service delivery model.
Today NetApp outlined its new and updated patented OnCommand
product portfolio, which includes the following.
- OnCommand Performance Manager: Leveraging powerful
analytics, Performance Manager provides users with
automated performance troubleshooting and monitoring of
clustered Data ONTAP environments. With large amounts of data
moving around dynamically, issues may arise. Performance
Manager gives storage administrators the ability to know
whether a cluster or volume is experiencing a
performance issue and then identifies which resources are
impacting volume response times. The limits of "normal"
performance are automatically calculated and continually
adjusted based on workload patterns. This new insight
allows the identification of abnormal behavior and the
correlation of events across multiple affected volumes to
quickly identify the source of the problem, saving
organizations time and money. Performance Manager can be
operated from within OnCommand's Unified Manager or as a
standalone application.
- OnCommand Workflow Automation 2.2: Workflow Automation 2.2
gives users the ability to automate, define, adjust,
and schedule storage processes with reduced errors, along with
the flexibility to meet the changing needs of a user's IT
infrastructure. Because software scripting expertise is not
required, storage professionals can also design highly
customized workflows using standard building blocks. A simple
portal allows requests to be executed with one-click
automation, giving organizations the ability to deliver
services more quickly and more efficiently. Workflow
Automation integrates with third-party orchestration
solutions to provide policy-driven service delivery and it
contains more than 50 workflows in its library, including but
not limited to provisioning, migrating, and
decommissioning storage; setting up a new virtualization
environment; setting up storage for an application; setting up
the NetApp and Cisco® FlexPod® platform or virtual desktops;
performing storage cloning; automating data protection with
NetApp SnapProtect® and Snap Creator™ framework; and
conducting a centralized activation of NetApp
SnapManager® software.
- OnCommand Unified Manager 6.1: Monitoring capacity,
availability, performance, and data protection, Unified
Manager provides users with an overarching view of the health
of their storage environment. A user-friendly dashboard
provides a status report on key metrics and details of
multiple NetApp storage systems. Users now have the ability to
quickly view whether there are issues -- graded
critical, error, warning, or information -- then prioritize,
understand, and troubleshoot them. Enhanced event and alert
capabilities further allow IT to manage their clustered Data
ONTAP environment proactively.
- OnCommand Insight 7.0: For enterprises and service
providers who are required to manage their virtualized and
cloud environments, OnCommand Insight 7.0 provides a solution
that enables storage cost management, rationalization,
and optimization of storage services. In addition, Insight 7.0
offers reliable service availability through analysis of
storage allocation, chargeback for applications and tenants,
performance, and configuration troubleshooting, and it
highlights risks to enable
infrastructure availability across all major storage
vendors and their platforms. Insight 7.0 is enhanced with a
new web interface focused on the user experience. It
provides a highly scalable architecture to track small to
extremely large environments, delivering visibility into how
applications map to their infrastructure and the impact of
changes, redundancy, bottlenecks, and workload placement,
which better determine utilization and/or
further purchasing. Advanced analytics provide accurate
cost and usage information along with detailed reports on a
customer's heterogeneous environment. Service providers can
leverage the chargeback reports to view each customer; his or
her applications; VMs, VM costs, and actual capacity by
gigabyte; the type of service; and the service cost.
About OnCommand Portfolio As IT organizations face numerous
challenges -- such as explosive data growth, increasing
virtualization, and the introduction of private or hybrid cloud
environments -- companies continually seek solutions that will help
them to successfully meet these challenges. The NetApp OnCommand
storage management software portfolio is comprised of a range of
products for use with NetApp and multivendor storage, including
device-level management, automation and integration, and enterprise
storage resource management. Our OnCommand software-defined storage
products provide flexibility and scalability to meet business needs
today and the changing needs of the future.
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About NetApp NetApp creates innovative storage and data
management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and
accelerate business breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our
core values and consistently being recognized as a great place to
work around the world are fundamental to our long-term growth and
success, as well as the success of our pathway partners and
customers. Discover our passion for helping companies around the
world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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Press Contact: Meghan Fintland NetApp PR 1 408 822 1389
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