NetApp, a data-centric, cloud-based software company, announced its renewed collaboration with Microsoft. NetApp offers Microsoft Azure users innovations that combine cloud storage solutions with Azure NetApp Files (ANF), NetApp BlueXP, Cloud Volumes ONTAP and now CloudOps solutions from Spot by NetApp, all based on cutting-edge technologies developed by NetApp and Microsoft.
ANF is a purpose-built public cloud storage solution designed for all enterprise file workloads, delivering the performance and data management capabilities of an on-premises environment. Even the most demanding applications are able to efficiently leverage data with some of the lowest latencies ever seen in the cloud, all within the fully secure Azure Virtual Network (VNET). ANF provides a seamless solution for integrating enterprise-grade data protection and disaster recovery architectures into the Azure ecosystem, ensuring their fit with public cloud workloads.
With Azure’s software-defined networking enhancements for ANF, customers can integrate their enterprise security architectures into the public cloud. ANF provides flexibility and scalability in the cloud by delivering real-time performance and capacity, allowing customers to remain flexible while meeting their business needs cost-effectively.
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“Through our collaboration with Microsoft, we can now offer our customers and partners market-leading storage and cloud infrastructure solutions that no other company in the industry can provide,” said the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Storage Solutions at NetAPP, Ronen Schwartz. “NetApp offers a robust set of features, including ANF, NetApp BlueXP hybrid data services, Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Spot. By collaborating with Microsoft Azure, we are innovating to provide customers with unparalleled optimization of their storage and computing solutions. We are accelerating the cloud transition of general purpose files and enterprise workloads to support more and more customers in the journeys that involve cloud-native workloads, Kubernetes and AI,” he adds.
NetApp has made significant investments in its Spot by NetApp portfolio for CloudOps on Azure to bring new solutions to market. These include solutions that provide integrated support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments and a fully managed open source solution that integrates with ANF, NetApp BlueXP, and Cloud Volumes ONTAP. Spot’s CloudOps solutions for Azure leverage AI-driven automation and machine learning to continuously optimize all Azure compute, increasing throughput and significantly reducing operational complexity, enabling customers to simplify and accelerate their investments in Azure to maximize business value.
“Azure NetApp Files continues to deliver increasingly important innovations to our customers through our long-standing and successful partnership with NetApp,” said Microsoft Azure Storage General Manager Mr. Aung Oo. “Together, Microsoft and NetApp provide customers with an efficient way to optimize their Azure infrastructure with a first-party Azure storage service based on ONTAP, allowing them to get the most out of their investment with us », he adds.
SOURCE : BusinessWire