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\u00a0<\/p>\n NetApp’s expansion in the cloud has been driven by customers and
\u00a0<\/p>\n This growth, driven by NetApp’s\u00a0ONTAP<\/a>\u00a0data management
\u00a0<\/p>\n “The three largest public clouds in the world are choosing NetApp,
\u00a0<\/p>\n “The completeness of NetApp’s offering,
\u00a0<\/p>\n Microsoft Azure<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n Since its general availability in 2019,\u00a0Azure NetApp Files (ANF)<\/a>, a fully managed,
\u00a0<\/p>\n “Alongside NetApp, we have worked with ANF customers to
\u00a0<\/p>\n “With ANF we get scalability and flexibility, which is important
\u00a0<\/p>\n Google Cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n NetApp and Google Cloud began collaborating in 2018,
\u00a0<\/p>\n “Our partnership with NetApp continues to grow, rolling out new
\u00a0<\/p>\n “With NetApp’s deep integrations with Google Cloud, we’re reaping
\u00a0<\/p>\n Additionally, Spot by NetApp and Google Cloud have partnered to
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\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a021 October 2021\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/b>Today at INSIGHT 2021, NetApp\u00ae<\/a> (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global,
\ncloud-led, data-centric software company, announced continued growth and
\nmomentum from helping organizations unlock the best of cloud at less cost,
\nthrough its collaboration with the world’s three largest public clouds.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/188231\/netapp.jpg#image-188231\")
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\nsupported by these partnerships, accelerating NetApp’s public cloud services’
\ncustomer and financial growth by bringing its leading CloudOps and ITOps
\nsolutions to existing and new addressable customers. Furthering its investment
\nin the cloud, NetApp acquired\u00a0Data Mechanics<\/a>\u00a0in early fiscal year
\n(FY)’22, and this month announced the intent to acquire\u00a0CloudCheckr<\/a>\u00a0to bolster the\u00a0Spot by NetApp<\/a>\u00a0portfolio’s existing
\ncontinuous cloud optimization capabilities.<\/p>\n
\nsoftware, which provides high-performance shared storage for file and block
\nworkloads, has propelled the native integration of NetApp’s cloud file services
\ninto each of the major public clouds.<\/p>\n
\nbecause customers are choosing ONTAP,” said Anthony Lye, Executive Vice
\nPresident and General Manager, Public Cloud Services, NetApp. “Our strategy has
\npositioned ONTAP as the native shared storage solution with rich data services
\ninside the three public clouds. Now, our public cloud partners provide
\ncustomers with the simplest path to the cloud and allow them to derive the most
\nvalue from their data and applications.”<\/p>\n
\ncombined with the ability to address a very broad set of storage use cases
\nbeyond cloud file storage, and the availability as a tier 1 offering both on
\nAWS and Azure, makes it a compelling choice,” said Enrico Signoretti, Senior
\nData Storage Analyst, GigaOm[1]<\/sup>.
\nNetApp has partnered with Microsoft for nearly 30 years. In 2021, Microsoft
\nrecognized NetApp as the global\u00a0Customer Experience Partner of the Year<\/a>, and the U.S.\u00a0SAP on Azure Partner of the Year<\/a>. In the last 12 months,
\nNetApp has more than tripled the number of co-sells offered on the Azure
\nMarketplace, making it easy for Azure customers to consume NetApp’s leading
\ncloud services.<\/p>\n
\nfirst-party service sold, billed, and supported by Microsoft in more than 35
\nregions globally, is the first and only shared file service certified for use
\nwith SAP HANA. Recent innovations with Azure include the general availability
\nof Azure Cross Region Replication, public preview of\u00a0Azure NetApp Files Backup<\/a>\u00a0to preserve storage
\nefficiencies, and of\u00a0Spot PC<\/a>\u00a0for secure, optimized Azure Virtual Desktop-based Cloud PC
\nenvironments.<\/p>\n
\nsuccessfully migrate and run some of their largest and most important ONTAP
\nproduction workloads, enabling the most demanding applications with performance
\nand scale that meets or beats what they get on-premises,” said Jurgen Willis,
\nVice President, Product Management, Microsoft Azure Storage.<\/p>\n
\nfor businesses to run and have a faster time-to-market for their products,”
\nsaid Lalit Patel, Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Cloud Services, SAP. “We
\nare able to deploy environments almost 30 to 40 percent faster and reduce the
\nnumber of outages by 80 percent because of the stability that ANF provides.”<\/p>\n
\nintroduced\u00a0NetApp Cloud Volumes Service (CVS) for
\nGoogle Cloud<\/a>\u00a0in 2019, and launched\u00a0NetApp Astra<\/a>\u00a0with support for
\nGoogle Cloud in 2020. Earlier this month, Google announced that NetApp would
\nserve as the primary data and storage vendor for its new Google Distributed
\nCloud Hosted offering and introduced the integration of\u00a0Google Cloud VMware Engine with NetApp
\nCloud Volumes Service<\/a>\u00a0support for VM datastores \u2013 a fully managed service that
\nhelps organizations meet their need for virtual workload storage and disaster
\nrecovery.<\/p>\n
\ncapabilities that will make it easier and more cost-effective to deliver
\nenterprise workloads on Google Cloud and bringing customers even more
\nflexibility across hybrid and cloud deployments,” said Bronwyn Hastings, Vice
\nPresident, Global Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud.<\/p>\n
\nall of the benefits of the cloud as a service, with configurations preset,
\nelasticity built-in and disaster recovery capabilities in place within five
\nminutes,” said Tom Gentry, Technologist, Gunpowder. “By making the technology
\nchallenges disappear for these studios, we’re able to deliver the high
\nperformance our customers need anywhere in the world.”<\/p>\n
\nhelp companies take full advantage of the recently announced\u00a0Google Spot VMs<\/a>. With this, Google Cloud
\ncustomers can continuously optimize performance, availability, and cost with
\nSpot by NetApp for cloud cost savings, without the risk of service
\ninterruption.<\/p>\n