NetApp Unveils New Solutions for Service Providers to Deliver Compelling Cloud Services for Enterprise IT
NetApp Helps Service Providers Differentiate Their Service Offerings, Accelerate Time to Market, and Reduce Costs
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.