NetApp Previews Hybrid Cloud Storage Initiative

September 17, 2013 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.

When it comes to cloud computing, one of the biggest challenges faced by IT organizations is that the cloud creates another isolated stack of computing to manage. In fact, the total cost of managing that additional stack of computing can wind up negating any of the savings derived from leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in the cloud.

What most enterprise IT organizations need in the cloud is an environment that looks and functions in much the same way their own internal data center does. Looking to help IT organizations achieve that goal, NetApp today previewed a federated instance of its Clustered Data OnTap storage management platform that can be deployed across private and public cloud computing environments…

According to Phil Brotherton, vice president of the Cloud Solutions Group (CSG) at NetApp, within the data center, NetApp has always provided an operating system for unifying the management of storage. It’s only natural, says Brotherton, for NetApp to extend those management capabilities into the cloud as part of an effort to make external cloud storage appear to be a natural extension of the enterprise…

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