NetApp Expands Hybrid Cloud Solutions Portfolio to Unlock Best of Cloud

As the only solutions provider with native integrations for the
world’s largest public clouds, NetApp’s industry leading ONTAP® software
continues to serve as the foundation for hybrid cloud. With the latest release
of ONTAP, NetApp is introducing enhanced protection against ransomware,
expanded data management capabilities, and NVMe/TCP support for accelerated
performance. The company is also announcing new digital wallet capabilities for
NetApp Cloud Manager and enhanced data services for simplified administration
across a hybrid cloud, more flexible consumption options to better control
costs, as well as new Professional Services offerings to help customers unlock
the full value of on-premises and hybrid cloud resources.

“The promised benefits of migrating to the cloud may be profound,
but many IT departments are still working to overcome on-premises challenges,
like managing the complexity and costs of moving data, protecting against
ransomware, and ensuring reliable performance for critical applications,” said Sanjay
Rohatgi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, NetApp. “As
the hybrid cloud specialist, NetApp can help enterprises move their digital
transformation efforts forward to deliver business results faster and within
budget – whether they are still developing a strategy or in the middle of
executing large-scale migrations.”

“IDC’s research shows that approximately 70 percent of enterprise
IT customers plan to modernize their storage infrastructures in the next two
years to support next-generation workloads. But the key operational advantage
will be in optimizing workload placement across traditional on-premises and
cloud environments,” said Eric Burgener, Research Vice President,
Infrastructure Systems Group, IDC. “As an industry leader with years of
innovation and expertise delivering hybrid cloud solutions, NetApp is uniquely
positioned to help enterprises transition to hybrid cloud models to achieve the
scalability and flexibility they need to deliver critical data services and
workload capabilities that drive business value.”

Innovative organizations leading their
respective industries are adopting NetApp hybrid cloud solutions to accelerate
digital transformation

For organizations navigating an increasingly distributed and
disrupted world, where agility and adaptability are key to survival, a hybrid
cloud strategy has become a strategic imperative.

“Formula One racing has always been about finding the
competitive edge, and with Aston Martin Cognizant’s return to the F1™ grid this
year, we’re embracing an ambitious data-centric strategy to maximize our
performance both on and off the track as we seek pole position,” said Otmar
Szafnauer, Chief Executive Officer and Team Principal, Aston Martin Cognizant
Formula One Team. “By partnering with NetApp to build our data fabric and
standardize operations with its world-class hybrid cloud solutions, we’re
working to ensure that everything we do – from capturing real-time data on car
and component performance to how we streamline factory and engineering
operations – is focused on constant improvement and driving the team forward.”

NetApp’s latest portfolio innovations announced today include:

• ONTAP Data Management Software Enhancements: The latest release of
  ONTAP enables enterprises to autonomously protect against ransomware attacks
  based on machine learning with integrated pre-emptive detection and accelerated
  data recovery. The new release also delivers enterprise-grade performance for
  SAN and modern workloads with NVMe/TCP support, expanded object storage
  capabilities, and simplified management. In addition, this latest ONTAP release
  will power the upcoming NetApp AFF A900, the next-generation high-resiliency
  all-flash system for business-critical workloads.

• Enhanced Data Services: With new digital wallet
  capabilities available in NetApp Cloud Manager, customers can benefit from
  greater mobility and more visibility into usage of data service licenses across
  a hybrid cloud, with pre-payment of credits enabling streamlined deployment to
  avoid procurement hassles. Additional updates include enhancements to NetApp
  Cloud Backup and Cloud Data Sense services, simplified deployment of Cloud
  Volumes ONTAP with new customer-ready templates, fully embedded Active IQ, and
  deeper integrations with NetApp Cloud Insights and ONTAP software to support
  Kubernetes workloads.

• More Flexible Consumption Options: NetApp Keystone Flex
  Subscription, an on-premises storage-as-a-service offering with native cloud
  integration, continues to gain momentum with customers. The offering is now
  supported on four continents – encompassing petabytes of capacity within just
  under one year of availability. NetApp is now offering a new freemium service
  tier for Cloud Volumes ONTAP, providing customers with access to a fully featured,
  perpetual license to use ONTAP in the cloud for workloads needing less than 500
  gigabytes of storage. This consumption flexibility gives organizations the
  freedom to use enterprise-grade data services for small workloads, such as
  Kubernetes clusters, at no initial cost. An organization only needs to convert
  to a subscription when the workload matures and scales.

“As a leading IT consultancy specializing in cloud infrastructure
and services, our clients are increasingly working with us to reduce CAPEX spending,
by taking advantage of cloud-like consumption models for their on-premises
environments,” said Kent Christensen, Virtual Practice Director, Cloud and Data
Center Transformation, Insight. “NetApp Keystone helps us provide a truly
flexible consumption model for enterprises, serving as a platform to provide
business-critical data services across the entire hybrid cloud data fabric,
which will be a huge boon for our growing client base.”

• More Accessible Hybrid Cloud Expertise: NetApp is also introducing
  new Support and Professional Services offerings to make it even easier to
  access experts for step-by-step guidance as they transition to hybrid cloud.
  With SupportEdge Advisor for Cloud, NetApp is extending its data center support
  model to cloud services with rapid, direct access to trained specialists.
  NetApp Flexible Professional Services (FlexPS) is also available for customers
  that require on-demand and ongoing support as they transition to a hybrid
  cloud. With this new subscription-based offering, organizations can get the
  professional help they need to design and build a data fabric strategy,
  implement solutions, and optimize their hybrid cloud with predictable costs and
  avoid procurement delays.

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