NetApp and VMware Help Transform IT, Make Cloud a Reality
August 30, 2011
Grazed from Market Wire. Author: PR Announcement.
Cloud computing has quickly surfaced as an important IT initiative as more organizations evaluate alternatives to help manage the pace and growth of their business. To help accelerate customers’ transition to the cloud, today at VMworld(R) 2011, NetApp and VMware announced VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp(R), a new joint solution that enables organizations to evolve to a secure cloud computing model at their own pace, gaining greater flexibility and efficiency without needing to rip and replace their existing infrastructure…
News Highlights:
— The solution is documented in a best practices guide and helps
customers evolve from a virtualized environment to a secure private,
hybrid or public cloud infrastructure using proven, integrated
technologies that automate and centrally manage cloud environments,
resulting in increased productivity and optimized service levels.
— VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp simplifies the
transition to a standardized, automated service-delivery model that
scales with the business, allowing service providers, government
agencies and universities, and enterprises to invest resources back
into the business so they manage for the future and drive innovation
throughout the organization.
— The solution helps customers evolve to the next stage of the
virtualization journey by creating a secure cloud infrastructure using
proven, integrated technologies that automate and centrally manage
cloud environments, resulting in increased productivity and optimized
service levels.
— The cloud infrastructure solution combines NetApp’s flexible and
efficient Unified Storage Architecture and comprehensive set of
storage and data management capabilities built on Data ONTAP(R)
with VMware’s recently enhanced cloud infrastructure suite to deliver
seamless integration of cloud management, provisioning, and backup and
recovery capabilities based on existing virtualized shared IT
infrastructures. This powerful combination enables organizations to
transition to the cloud at their own pace, without the need to rip and
replace their existing infrastructure. Core features include:
— Integrated data protection with VMware vCloud(R) Director
enables customizable backup and recovery of tenant data within
minutes.
— Intelligent policy-based provisioning of storage and
infrastructure resources to meet stringent service-level
agreements.
— Secure isolation and control of multiple tenants (applications,
organizations, clients, users and business units) on a flexible
and efficient shared IT infrastructure.
— NetApp and VMware have a globally staffed, 24×7 direct contact path
between the VMware and NetApp support organizations and leverage a
Unified Support Lab where support engineers can reproduce customer
environments, diagnose issues, and rapidly resolve customer cases. As
customers continue to deploy cloud infrastructure environments, they
want to be certain that their technology partners will continue to
provide rapid and efficient support. The cooperative support process
enables customer problems to be worked to completion in a seamless
manner, with technical support engineers communicating directly with
each other to resolve issues efficiently.
— The solution is documented in a best practices guide and helps
customers evolve from a virtualized environment to a secure private,
hybrid or public cloud infrastructure using proven, integrated
technologies that automate and centrally manage cloud environments,
resulting in increased productivity and optimized service levels.
— VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp simplifies the
transition to a standardized, automated service-delivery model that
scales with the business, allowing service providers, government
agencies and universities, and enterprises to invest resources back
into the business so they manage for the future and drive innovation
throughout the organization.
— The solution helps customers evolve to the next stage of the
virtualization journey by creating a secure cloud infrastructure using
proven, integrated technologies that automate and centrally manage
cloud environments, resulting in increased productivity and optimized
service levels.
— The cloud infrastructure solution combines NetApp’s flexible and
efficient Unified Storage Architecture and comprehensive set of
storage and data management capabilities built on Data ONTAP(R)
with VMware’s recently enhanced cloud infrastructure suite to deliver
seamless integration of cloud management, provisioning, and backup and
recovery capabilities based on existing virtualized shared IT
infrastructures. This powerful combination enables organizations to
transition to the cloud at their own pace, without the need to rip and
replace their existing infrastructure. Core features include:
— Integrated data protection with VMware vCloud(R) Director
enables customizable backup and recovery of tenant data within
minutes.
— Intelligent policy-based provisioning of storage and
infrastructure resources to meet stringent service-level
agreements.
— Secure isolation and control of multiple tenants (applications,
organizations, clients, users and business units) on a flexible
and efficient shared IT infrastructure.
— NetApp and VMware have a globally staffed, 24×7 direct contact path
between the VMware and NetApp support organizations and leverage a
Unified Support Lab where support engineers can reproduce customer
environments, diagnose issues, and rapidly resolve customer cases. As
customers continue to deploy cloud infrastructure environments, they
want to be certain that their technology partners will continue to
provide rapid and efficient support. The cooperative support process
enables customer problems to be worked to completion in a seamless
manner, with technical support engineers communicating directly with
each other to resolve issues efficiently.