SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - March 2, 2010) - In the face of today's increased economic
pressures, many IT organizations are turning to cloud computing to help
reduce costs and improve efficiencies in the data center. Service providers
play a key role in this data center transformation and help customers
realize these benefits by delivering a wide range of IT services via the
cloud. Several of the world's leading service providers already depend on
NetApp (
NASDAQ:
NTAP) to provide the storage infrastructure that is at the
core of their service offerings. To address the growing demand, NetApp
today unveiled new design guides and capabilities geared specifically for
service providers that will help them deliver greater value to their cloud
customers.
Furthermore, these latest offerings provide another example of NetApp's
commitment to enabling the success of its service provider customers rather
than offering NetApp proprietary services that directly compete with them.
The following new NetApp® solutions will help service providers
differentiate their cloud services, accelerate their services' time to
market, and achieve industry-leading cost and service-level benefits.
- NetApp Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI): The SOI leverages
NetApp storage and serves as the foundation for all NetApp IT-as-a-service
designs. It provides service providers with a standardized and unified
infrastructure that lets them consume and deploy storage, network, and
compute resources in a repeatable manner. This helps speed time to market,
improve flexibility, reduce costs, and increase service
levels.
- Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS): NetApp now provides
service providers with a design guide that enables them to rapidly deploy
DPaaS offerings, including archive and disaster recovery (DR). Service
providers will benefit from NetApp technologies such as FlexClone® for
riskless DR testing, SnapLock® for compliance, and MultiStore® for secure
multi-tenancy. This DPaaS design guide will help service providers reduce
costs and complexities and increase service levels and flexibility.
- Backup/Recovery as a Service (BRaaS): NetApp has teamed with
Asigra, a leading provider of cloud backup/recovery software, to provide
service providers with a design guide that helps them quickly and
efficiently deploy BRaaS solutions. Asigra Cloud Backup* software runs on
the NetApp SOI, combining the scalability, security, and pay-as-you go
capabilities of Asigra with the unified, high-performance, and flexible
storage solutions of NetApp. The result is a single, proven BRaaS solution
that allows service providers to meet their customers' demanding
service-level agreements and reduce costs.
- NetApp Open Management: NetApp's open management capabilities
now allow service providers to leverage NetApp's storage efficiency and
storage services automation capabilities, regardless of whether service
providers use NetApp or another technology vendor's IT service management
or virtualization framework. The open management capabilities are enabled
by NetApp's open Software Developer Kit (SDK) and Web services Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) and provide a policy-based automation
infrastructure. This enables service providers to link their IT service
management and orchestration portals easily and quickly to NetApp's storage
automation engine for rapid and seamless storage provisioning and
protection services.
"Our cloud-based disaster recovery solution is built on NetApp storage,"
said Mike Fink, director, Cloud Disaster Recovery Solutions for Terremark.
"With the mounting costs and risks associated with disaster recovery today,
it was imperative that we identified a storage solution that could help
alleviate these issues. NetApp provides the necessary storage technologies,
allowing us to reduce costs for our customers, meet stringent service-level
agreements, and ensure the security of our customers' virtual environments.
"Furthermore, NetApp is a trusted partner," continued Fink. "They are
committed to our success and are constantly providing system upgrades,
deduplication, and other powerful new functionality at no charge."
"SOFTBANK's WHITE CLOUD offering provides enterprise customers with a
hardware-as-a-service solution via the cloud," said Amane Kito, corporate
officer, deputy division head, Sales Development Division, SOFTBANK TELECOM
Corp. "WHITE CLOUD offers one of the lowest price points in the market, the
flexibility of per-volume charge models, and off-balance sheet business
solutions. WHITE CLOUD leverages NetApp storage, enabling a more scalable
and cost-efficient cloud computing solution. NetApp is one of SOFTBANK's
key business partners and we look forward to NetApp's continued innovation
and technology leadership in this space."
"NTT COMWARE Corporation is a major supplier of energy-efficient data
center solutions to customers in Japan," said Onishi Hiroyuki, executive
manager, Service Provider Department, NTT COMWARE Corporation. "To help
address the requirements for the next-generation data center we have
developed SmartCloud, a new enterprise-class cloud service that provides
our customers with highly adaptable services including rapid backup and
recovery storage. We selected NetApp as our storage partner to better
enable us to deliver this solution to our customers."
"With NetApp's open management capabilities, we are able to seamlessly
integrate our Business Service Management platform with NetApp's storage
solutions," said Scott Fulton, vice president and general manager of
Service Automation for BMC Software. "As a result, service providers are
now able to provision NetApp storage services directly from the BMC Service
Catalog via NetApp Provisioning Manager, providing their customers with all
the storage availability, performance, flexibility, and efficiency that
NetApp provides."
Service providers can also take advantage of the recently announced Cisco,
NetApp, and VMware®
Secure Multi-tenancy Design
Architecture. This validated design architecture isolates IT resources
for enhanced security in shared virtual and enterprise cloud environments.
The end-to-end design architecture helps customers to develop internal and
external cloud services that isolate different clients, business units,
departments, or security zones for enhanced security across the computing,
networking, storage, and management layers of a unified infrastructure.
"NetApp has a proven track record of successfully teaming with leading
service providers to power their cloud service offerings," said Patrick
Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances, NetApp. "Today's
announcement strengthens our commitment to provide service providers with
unique solutions and capabilities to enhance their cloud services
portfolio. Our strategy in this space is to enable the success of our
solution partners, not compete with them, and through them provide a broad
and open set of industry cloud services for enterprise IT customers."
To learn more about NetApp's SOI, Open Management framework, and DPaaS and
BRaaS offerings for service providers, please visit
http://www.netapp.com/us/solutions/infrastructure/service-providers/.
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Pricing and Availability
All customer pricing for offerings described in this release is available
from NetApp sales and reseller partners. All offerings are available today.
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