NetApp champions simple, secure and flexible hybrid multicloud experience

Source: NetApp. Rohtagi.

NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, has announced new solutions to provide enterprises with more simplicity, security and flexibility for their hybrid multicloud environments.

The new capabilities include improved ransomware protection, hybrid cloud storage in a single subscription, unified management in a single user interface, and close collaboration with VMware to help transition workloads to the cloud.

According to NetApp, the acquisition of public cloud services to augment existing on-premises data centres, can lead to hard-to-manage combined infrastructures over time. NetApp's new unified, consistent hybrid multicloud experience is a single platform that supports everything from on-premises resources to public clouds.

“As organisations today explore the promise of hybrid multicloud environments, they are keen to avoid complexity, security, and cost efficiency challenges,” said Ronen Schwartz, Senior VP, Cloud Volumes Service at NetApp.

“With NetApp’s simplified management and consumption experience, organisations can enjoy improved security, manageability, speed of operations, and cost savings - ultimately allowing them to be more responsive to the growing needs of their business by delivering capabilities faster, and keeping data available and protected no matter where it lives.”

Sanjay Rohatgi, Senior VP and GM, NetApp Asia Pacific & Japan, said: “Today’s launch comprehensively addresses the challenges that organisations across Asia Pacific have been experiencing in the last two years – complexity of management, security risks, and cumbersome migration of workloads to the cloud. To that end, NetApp is working hand in glove with our partners to speed up the deployment of these solutions to deliver a unified and consistent hybrid multicloud experience for our customers.”

By delivering everything "as a service," NetApp simplifies and optimises hybrid cloud environments with new capabilities, including:

· Hybrid cloud storage-as-a-service (STaaS) in a single, flexible subscription with NetApp Keystone, a pay-as-you-grow data storage service for on-prem, cloud or hybrid cloud environments. Organisations can flexibly move workloads to and from the cloud in a single contract.

· In addition to managing and monitoring data storage, protection, governance and tiering across multicloud environments, Cloud Manager can now manage Keystone services, track software licenses, monitor infrastructure health and provide proactive recommendations that optimise costs and data protection with automated actions.

"Organisations today are looking for flexibility both on-premises as well as across cloud providers and are investing in as-a-service consumption models to help achieve this," said Scott Sinclair, Practice Director at ESG.

"NetApp's approach with Keystone is targeted at that need; offering hybrid cloud simplicity and flexibility that allows users to accelerate their IT objectives with management, orchestration, and billing wrapped into a single subscription and experience. Keystone's transferable subscription model also supports future cloud migration planning to any major cloud provider, with enterprise-level storage capability and integrated data protection."

The rise of ransomware over the past few years is a growing problem for enterprises. IDC’s 2021 Ransomware Study: Where You Are Matters! found that more than one third of organisations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the 12 months prior.

NetApp addresses this challenge with new built-in cyber resilience capabilities including for anti-ransomware, data protection and security. Customers can protect a multitude of workloads, enterprise apps, virtualised workloads and modern containerised applications against security breaches, quickly detect attacks and rapidly recover data before experiencing any impact to operations.

In addition, NetApp is empowering customers to “modernise to the cloud” using a supplemental datastore for data-intensive, storage demanding workloads running in a single or across multicloud environments. NetApp is the only cloud storage service provider today to be certified and become supported for use as an external supplemental datastore for VMware Cloud environments running in the largest public clouds.

“Organisations across all industries rely on the combination of VMware and NetApp as the platform of choice for delivering business-critical workloads,” said Narayan Bharadwaj, VP of Cloud Solutions at VMware.

“NetApp is now able to deliver the same levels of enterprise-class data management that our mutual customers have enjoyed for decades on-premises to workloads running in any of the major public clouds.”