Verizon Enlists NetApp for Cloud Storage

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Michael Vizard.

After first allying with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to build the servers for its next-generation cloud platform, Verizon today revealed it has enlisted NetApp to provide the storage. According to Tom Shields, director of service provider marketing for NetApp, the Verizon Cloud Compute and Verizon Cloud Storage platforms will be the first live instances of the hybrid storage cloud technology called Clustered Data OnTap that NetApp previewed last month.

Chris Drumgoole, senior vice president of global operations for Verizon Terremark, says Verizon chose NetApp because, for the foreseeable future, most cloud computing deployments in the enterprise are going to be of a hybrid nature. Clustered Data OnTap will provide customers with a way to holistically manage storage across their own and Verizon data centers…

Drumgoole says that Verizon is already managing some of the largest cloud computing platforms in the market. Verizon Cloud Compute and Verizon Cloud Storage are being developed to specifically address enterprise-class performance and security issues that rival cloud platforms simply don’t address, at price points that Drumgoole says will rival anything from another public cloud service provider…

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