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NetApp Together With Best-of-Breed Technology and Channel Partners Deliver Infrastructures and Services for the Cloud
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SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - August 25, 2009) - As part of NetApp's cloud computing news
announcements today, NetApp (NASDAQ : NTAP ) highlighted its close
relationships with industry-leading Information Technology (IT) vendors and
enterprise Value Added Resellers (VARs) to provide enterprise customers
with the technology and solutions needed to build their cloud
infrastructures, including global service providers and system integrators
that are leveraging NetApp technology to create cloud service offerings for
their own enterprise customers.
"NetApp believes that because there are several elements that must come
together to create a cloud infrastructure, no single vendor is able to
adequately address each and every layer," said Patrick Rogers, vice
president of Solutions Marketing, NetApp. "It's imperative that customers
identify the right partners that can provide the services, technology, and
integration necessary for their unique cloud needs. Today's announcement
not only spotlights the best-of-breed partners that NetApp has cultivated
to help customers, but also helps validate our technology offering for the
cloud thanks to the many service providers and system integrators who are
leveraging NetApp solutions."
Following is an overview of some of the partners and customers NetApp is
working with to enable the cloud. To watch a video and hear what they're
saying about their relationship with NetApp and the company's strategy and
approach to cloud computing, click
here.
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
NetApp works closely with the industry's leading IT vendors to provide
joint customers with the solutions and infrastructure needed to enable the
cloud. These technology partners include vendors who provide leading
management, server, application, software, and networking technologies and
solutions that all leverage the power of virtualization to help deliver a
service-oriented dynamic data center.
BMC Software
"The benefits of cloud computing -- improved business agility,
self-service, reduced capex -- are well documented, but they can only be
truly recognized with a comprehensive business service management strategy
that reduces risk and drives compliance. Together, BMC and NetApp are
providing IT organizations and service providers with a comprehensive,
integrated service and storage management solution for cloud and virtual
environments."
- Kia Behnia, chief technology officer for BMC Software
Brocade
"A powerful and flexible IT infrastructure must be in place to deliver upon
the key requirements of an IT-as-a-service model. In support of this
emerging trend, Brocade intends to work with industry partners such as
NetApp through our Network Infrastructure as a Service (NIaaS) technology
platform, which is designed to support a heterogeneous environment and
interoperate seamlessly with multiple manufacturer products and all
virtualization software offerings. Brocade and NetApp have long shared a
goal of helping our mutual customers drive out costs, improve agility, and
increase reliability, and this collaboration is the latest example of
that."
- Dave Stevens, vice president and chief technology officer for Brocade
Cisco
"As our customers simplify and streamline their cloud data center
infrastructure they need to ensure that their networking, computing, and
storage infrastructure work seamlessly together. Cisco is working with
industry-leading companies like NetApp to ensure interoperability for
dynamic networking and unified computing solutions to help enterprise
customers unleash the power of their enterprise clouds."
- Soni Jiandani, vice president of marketing, Server Access
Virtualization Business Group for Cisco
Citrix
"Citrix Cloud Center (C3) integrated with NetApp storage systems provides
cloud providers with a robust platform for delivering infrastructure as a
service. As the foundation for Citrix C3, XenServer and Citrix Essentials
enable cloud service providers to seamlessly leverage the advanced NetApp
storage capabilities across their cloud platform, reducing the time and
cost to deploy highly scalable and elastic services."
- Frank Artale, vice president of business development for Citrix
Systems, Inc.
Computer Associates
"CA and NetApp are excited about how enterprises and cloud computing
providers utilize automation and virtualization to drive business value in
the next-generation data center and achieve lean IT. Storage is a key part
of the overall IT-as-a-service value. We look forward to continued
collaboration that integrates CA's business-driven automation and assurance
offerings with NetApp's storage management solutions to help customers
create and leverage a cloud-based business service across multiple
infrastructure elements, including storage. This comprehensive approach to
cloud management will further help improve productivity and service
quality, provide increased agility, and reduce risks."
- Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager for
CA's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit
Fujitsu America
"As data center dynamics shift to a service-oriented infrastructure,
Fujitsu is committed to providing customers with a complete and
well-rounded technology infrastructure for the cloud. In order to
deliver cloud solutions to our customers, we work closely with some of the
industry's leading virtualization technology providers such as NetApp."
- Richard McCormack, senior vice president, Product & Solution
Marketing for Fujitsu America
Microsoft
"Microsoft and NetApp provide powerful solutions for building and managing
private cloud infrastructures. We're helping innovative organizations
transition to private cloud computing environments by providing them with
the required combination of virtualization, service-oriented management
systems, and a scale-out application model. With NetApp storage and
Microsoft® virtualizations solutions, customers can deploy cost-effective
and efficient data center infrastructure that provides fast response to
their businesses' needs."
- Zane Adam, senior director, virtualization and management for
Microsoft Corp.
SAP
"SAP® Business ByDesign leverages NetApp to provide our customers with a
complete, integrated on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. With
the NetApp platform we are able to quickly provision our internal storage
resources, enabling customers to accelerate deployment of their SaaS
solution. In addition we can quickly conduct disk-to-disk backup, providing
our customers with access to their data on demand. With the help of NetApp
our customers experience the reliability and efficiency that they have come
to expect from services leveraging cloud principles in internal IT
systems."
- Bernd Himmelsbach, director of SAP Business ByDesign Infrastructure
Management for SAP
VMware
"With VMware® vSphere™ 4 and NetApp storage technologies, enterprises
can build and operate a virtualized, services-based data center to more
rapidly address changes in business requirements, meet the demand for 24x7
business resiliency, and drastically reduce costs. VMware vSphere 4 allows
IT to virtualize and allocate resources on demand and complements the
special cloud benefits of NetApp storage. VMware and NetApp together help
enable the next generation of flexible, reliable enterprise IT services
with the efficiency, control, and choice that cloud computing offers."
- Parag Patel, vice president, Alliances, for VMware
ENTERPRISE VARs
Enterprise VARs are integral components of NetApp's success today. NetApp
and its channel partners have been working closely to deliver a broad set
of virtualization solutions to help customers achieve a cost-efficient data
center. Many of these partners share NetApp's vision of the cloud and will
continue the close collaboration to serve their customers.
Avnet Technology Solutions
"Our reseller partners have the choice of selling or leasing equipment to
their customers, or simply taking advantage of our
infrastructure-as-a-service offering. Our partners can offer their
customers the benefits of a data center without the capital expenditure and
issues of having to own and operate one. These cloud services become just
an expense item for our partners' end customers, not an ongoing challenge
of managing infrastructure and finding and retaining good people."
- Stephen Lester, director of IT for Avnet Technology Solutions
INX
"INX is pleased to partner with NetApp as a strategic cloud computing
partner. INX leverages NetApp technology to offer both internal and
external cloud computing services to our clients in the form of dynamic
data center architecture, hosted production and disaster recovery services,
and in managed services. NetApp also plays a pivotal role in driving
efficiencies in our internal operations, which also helps us to better
address our clients' challenges."
- Mark Hilz, president and chief operating officer for INX
Long View
"NetApp is a strategic cloud computing partner for Long View. With NetApp
storage and data management we can build a service-based and virtualized
dynamic infrastructure that forms the foundation for efficient internal or
external cloud solutions for our enterprise customers. We look forward to
continued collaboration with NetApp to bring automated cloud services to
our customers to improve business agility and reduce data center costs."
- Dan Sottile, senior vice president, North America Sales, Marketing,
and Business Development for Long View
SERVICE PROVIDERS DELIVERING ENTERPRISE CLOUD SERVICES
Some of the world's leading service providers utilize NetApp storage and
data management solutions at the core of their cloud service offerings. By
leveraging NetApp's unique technologies and solutions for the cloud,
service providers are able to provide their customers with competitive
service-level agreements, faster service delivery, and lower costs. NetApp
is committed to providing its service provider customers with tailored
solutions and technologies that address their customers' unique cloud
infrastructure requirements.
Joyent
"At Joyent, we leverage NetApp's storage solutions to deliver the core of
our Cloud Storage product lineup. More and more enterprises are
transitioning to the cloud. Joyent is focused on ensuring that when our
customers make this transition they do not have to give up
high-performance, reliable, enterprise-class storage and disaster recovery
tools. NetApp storage allows these customers to take their
business-critical apps from their data center to the Joyent Cloud."
- Mark Mayo, vice president of Engineering for Joyent, Inc.
Rackspace
"Rackspace relies on NetApp storage and data management technology for a
variety of hosting options. NetApp is a key component in powering The
Rackspace Cloud, our cloud division. With NetApp we can create a virtual,
shared, and dynamic infrastructure with extremely high utilization. This
allows us to provide industry-leading cost efficiencies to our customers.
Rackspace also uses NetApp to provide Dedicated NAS services to Enterprise
Managed Hosting customers seeking a dedicated file storage and data
protection solution."
- John Engates, chief technology officer for Rackspace
Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc.
"Our NetApp platform provides Siemens IT Solutions and Services with
advanced capabilities, including storage virtualization, thin provisioning
(FlexVol®), data deduplication, file consolidation, disk-based recovery,
remote replication, cloning, ATA support, and multiple connectivity choices
-- all in a single, unified platform. They are foundation technologies for
our infrastructure-as-a-service and private cloud capabilities. These
features, when leveraged with virtualization, create the structure for a
dynamic storage environment that can be provisioned based on business needs
in real time."
- John Hill, chief technology officer for Siemens IT Solutions and
Services, Inc.
Tata Communications Ltd.
"Tata Communications Ltd. has built its global hosting, on-demand storage
services based on leading technologies and industry practices. Using NetApp
for our cloud-based services allows us to easily manage and monitor our
infrastructure to provide secure, 24x7x365 availability and lower costs for
our enterprise customers while relieving them of the day-to-day management
of their IT infrastructure. Together with NetApp we enable our customers to
flexibly support their business requirements today and then quickly scale
up or down as their business needs change, paying only for what they need."
- Abid Qadiri, vice president, Data Center Services for Tata
Communications, Ltd.
Terremark
"Terremark has leveraged NetApp's technology to deliver reliable storage
and disaster recovery solutions for many years. As a recognized leader in
cloud computing, we feel that the features, reliability, efficiency and
manageability of NetApp technologies complement Terremark's ability to
deliver advanced cloud-based services to enterprise-class customers."
- Tom Mays, senior vice president for Terremark
T-Systems
"T-Systems provides over 170 enterprise customers worldwide with cloud
services for key applications like SAP® and Microsoft® Exchange with
our Dynamic Services offering. Together with our technology partners we are
able to achieve 90% service infrastructure utilization, allowing us to pass
on both cost savings and higher service levels to our customers. In fact,
our customers see up to 30% reduction in cost using Dynamic Services vs.
in-house hosting. Furthermore, our customers benefit from integrated data
protection and secure multi-tenancy while we are able to flexibly scale IT
resources up and down in a matter of hours rather than days or weeks.
NetApp is an essential component to enabling all of these benefits by
regularly and reliably delivering on our specific requirements."
- Olaf Heyden, member of the Board of Management T-Systems for ICT
Operations
SYSTEM INTEGRATORS DELIVERING ENTERPRISE CLOUD SERVICES
NetApp provides its system integrator customers with the storage
infrastructure for their cloud service offerings. As a result these system
integrators are able to deliver the unique solutions that an enterprise
environment demands.
Accenture
"Accenture's clients have many requirements for cloud infrastructures,
including economy of implementation, simplicity of operation,
high-performance, multi-application processing, and assured data security.
Accenture and its technology partners such as NetApp are committed to
delivering this combination to enable our clients to reduce costs while
improving responsiveness and performance."
- John Kaltenmark, managing director for Accenture Technology Consulting
Avanade
"Enterprises look to cloud computing to reduce costs and deliver critical
performance requirements through shared environments. Avanade and NetApp
collaborated to shift one of the world's largest exchange environments to a
virtualized, shared infrastructure. The move delivers reliable service
levels, even during rapid shifts in locations and activity."
- Tyson Hartman, chief technology officer and vice president of
Enterprise Technology Solutions for Avanade
CSC
"CSC collaborates with NetApp to deploy CSC Dynamic Desktop to help clients
drive additional cost and complexity out of their virtual desktop IT
environment and deliver optimized computing capacity. To date, the
companies have jointly developed and delivered cloud-enabled solutions,
integrated data center solutions, high-performance computing systems, and
managed infrastructure services. We are very pleased to be working with
world-class technology partners such as NetApp to provide customers with
sound business solutions backed by an experienced IT services leader."
- Russ Owen, president of CSC's Managed Services Sector
Unisys
"Unisys is pleased to partner with NetApp to provide the federal sector
with an innovative utility storage service offering. This scalable
'pay-as-you-go' solution allows clients to access their data with the
assurance that their assets are securely managed within a proven and
structured delivery framework. This unique offering provides significant
flexibility and cost benefits to clients and positions NetApp and Unisys as
leading providers of data center transformation solutions for the federal
government."
- Venkatapathi Puvvada, managing partner, Horizontal Services and chief
technology officer for Unisys Federal
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Additional Resources
To learn more about today's news, read the press release about NetApp's new technologies and solutions for the cloud
or visit the NetApp Cloud
Experience.
For more perspective on NetApp's cloud enablement strategy and vision,
please visit one of several NetApp blogs, including that of Dave Hitz,
NetApp founder and executive vice president (http://blogs.netapp.com/dave);
Jay Kidd, NetApp's chief marketing officer (http://blogs.netapp.com/jay);
and the new "Breaking Through the Cloud" NetApp team blog
(http://blogs.netapp.com/cloud/).
Also, listen to Val Bercovici, NetApp cloud czar, in a two-part series discussing all
things cloud, including customer requirements, NetApp's definition, and
NetApp's approach to helping customers deploy the cloud.
Please visit NetApp
Play-by-Play as Jeff O'Neal, senior director of Data Center Solutions
for NetApp, takes a deeper dive into how NetApp is enabling ITaaS.
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