NetApp ONTAP is the only storage and data management software now available natively in the top public clouds, enabling organizations with a hybrid multicloud data fabric
SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 20, 2021 — NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, today announced continued growth and momentum helping organizations unlock the best of cloud at less cost, through its partnerships with the world’s largest public clouds - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
NetApp’s expansion in the cloud has been driven by our customer obsession and supported by these partnerships, accelerating NetApp’s public cloud services’ customer and financial growth by bringing its leading CloudOps and ITOps solutions to existing and new addressable customers. Furthering its investment in the cloud, NetApp acquired Data Mechanics in early FY’22, and this month announced the intent to acquire CloudCheckr to bolster Spot by NetApp’s existing continuous cloud optimization capabilities.
This growth, driven by NetApp’s ONTAP data management software, which provides high-performance shared storage for file and block workloads, has propelled the native integration of NetApp’s cloud file services into each of the major public clouds.
“The three largest public clouds in the world are choosing NetApp, because customers are choosing ONTAP,” said Anthony Lye, executive vice president & GM, public cloud services at NetApp. “Our strategy has positioned ONTAP as the native shared storage solution with rich data services inside the three public clouds. Now, our public cloud partners provide customers with the simplest path to the cloud and allow them to derive the most value from their data and applications.”
“The completeness of NetApp’s offering, combined with the ability to address a very broad set of storage use cases beyond cloud file storage, and the availability as a Tier 1 offering both on AWS and Azure, makes it a compelling choice,” said Enrico Signoretti, Senior Data Storage Analyst, GigaOm.1
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
As an initial storage partner available on the AWS Marketplace and a recurring top storage provider annually, NetApp has worked alongside AWS for over 10 years. In September, AWS announced Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, an AWS-native fully managed service that makes it cost effective to launch and run shared storage, while offering NetApp’s suite of enterprise-grade data services.
At INSIGHT 2021 Digital today, NetApp CEO George Kurian will lead a discussion with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on the recent joint momentum between NetApp and AWS as the two companies empower organizations to migrate workloads to the cloud, build modern applications, modernize their data management and simplify business continuity.
Spot by NetApp, helping companies to move faster to cloud while optimizing cloud spend, has seen business growth aligned with NetApp’s public cloud services momentum and has continued to innovate, recently integrating new support for AWS Control Tower, Bottlerocket, and AWS Outposts.
"We made the switch to microservices, running workloads on Amazon ECS and found that Spot by NetApp allowed us to effectively utilize reserved and spot instances together, which simplified our operations and reduced our ECS costs by 65 percent,” said Max Blaze, Staff Operations Engineer at Duolingo.
Microsoft Azure
NetApp and Microsoft have partnered for nearly 30 years. In 2021 Microsoft recognized NetApp as the global Customer Experience Partner of the Year, and the U.S. SAP on Azure Partner of the Year. In the last 12 months, NetApp has more than tripled the number of co-sells offered on the Azure Marketplace, making it easy for Azure customers to consume NetApp’s leading cloud services.
Since its general availability in 2019, Azure NetApp Files (ANF), a fully managed, first-party service sold, billed, and supported by Microsoft in 35+ regions globally, has become one of the fastest growing Azure services, and is the first and only shared file service certified for use with SAP HANA. Recent innovations with Azure include the general availability of Azure Cross Region Replication, public preview of Azure NetApp Files Backup to preserve storage efficiencies, and of Spot PC for secure, optimized Azure Virtual Desktop-based Cloud PC environments.
“Alongside NetApp, we have worked with ANF customers to successfully migrate and run some of their largest and most important production workloads - enabling their most demanding applications,” said Jurgen Willis, vice president, product management for Azure Storage.
“With ANF we get scalability and flexibility, which is important for businesses to run and have a
faster time-to-market for their products,” said Lalit Patel, Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Cloud Services at SAP. “We are able to deploy environments almost 30 to 40 percent faster and reduce the number of outages by 80 percent because of the stability that ANF provides.”
Google Cloud
NetApp and Google Cloud began collaborating in 2018, introduced NetApp Cloud Volumes Service (CVS) for Google Cloud in 2019, and launched NetApp Astra with support for Google Cloud in 2020. Earlier this month Google announced that NetApp would serve as the primary data and storage vendor for its new Google Distributed Cloud Hosted offering and introduced the integration of Google Cloud VMware Engine with NetApp Cloud Volumes Service support for VM datastores - a fully managed service that helps organizations meet their need for virtual workload storage and disaster recovery.
“Our partnership with NetApp continues to grow, rolling out new capabilities that will make it easier and more cost-effective to deliver enterprise workloads on Google Cloud and bringing customers even more flexibility across hybrid and cloud deployments,” said Bronwyn Hastings, VP Global Technology Partnerships at Google Cloud.
“With NetApp's deep integrations with Google Cloud, we're reaping all of the benefits of the cloud as a service, with configurations preset, elasticity built-in and disaster recovery capabilities in place within five minutes,” said Tom Gentry, Technologist, Gunpowder. “By making the technology challenges disappear for these studios, we're able to deliver the high performance our customers need anywhere in the world.”
Additionally, Spot by NetApp and Google Cloud have partnered to help companies take full advantage of the recently announced Google Spot VMs. With this, Google Cloud customers can continuously optimize performance, availability and cost with Spot by NetApp for cloud cost savings without the risk of service interruption.
Additional Resources
· Press Release: NetApp Expands Hybrid Cloud Solutions Portfolio to Unlock Best of Cloud at INSIGHT 2021 Digital
· Video: Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
· Blog post: Ungated Innovation: Azure NetApp Files
· Google Cloud + NetApp Momentum Blog - Title TBD / Blog post: Quicken your innovation with NetApp and Google Cloud
About NetApp
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