NetApp rolls out new solutions for service providers

Due to increasing economic pressures,
many IT organizations are turning to cloud computing to reduce costs
and improve efficiencies in the datacenter. And service providers
play a key role in datacenter transformation and help customers
realize these benefits by delivering a wide range of IT services via
the cloud. To address the growing demand, NetApp unveiled new design
guides and capabilities geared specifically for service providers
that will help them deliver greater value to their cloud customers.

Further, these latest offerings provide
another example of NetApp's commitment to enabling the success of
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proprietary services that directly compete with them.

The following new NetApp solutions will
help service providers differentiate their cloud services, accelerate
their services' time to market, and achieve industry-leading cost
and service-level benefits:

• Data Protection as a Service
  (DPaaS): NetApp now provides service providers with a design guide that
  enables them to rapidly deploy DPaaS offerings, including archive and
  disaster recovery (DR). Service providers will benefit from NetApp
  technologies such as FlexClone for riskless DR testing, SnapLock for
  compliance, and MultiStore for secure multi-tenancy.

• NetApp Service-Oriented
  Infrastructure (SOI): The SOI leverages NetApp storage and serves as
  the foundation for all NetApp IT-as-a-service designs. It provides
  service providers with a standardized and unified infrastructure.

• Backup/Recovery as a Service
  (BRaaS): NetApp has teamed with Asigra, a leading provider of cloud
  backup/recovery software, to provide service providers with a design
  guide that helps them quickly and efficiently deploy BRaaS solutions.
  Asigra Cloud Backup software runs on the NetApp SOI, combining the
  scalability, security, and pay-as-you go capabilities of Asigra with
  the unified, high-performance, and flexible storage solutions of
  NetApp.

• NetApp Open Management: NetApp's
  open management capabilities now allow service providers to leverage
  NetApp's storage efficiency and storage services automation
  capabilities, regardless of whether service providers use NetApp or
  another technology vendor's IT service management or virtualization
  framework. The open management capabilities are enabled by NetApp's
  open Software Developer Kit (SDK) and Web services Application
  Programming Interfaces (APIs) and provide a policy-based automation
  infrastructure.

“Our cloud-based disaster recovery
solution is built on NetApp storage. With the mounting costs and
risks associated with disaster recovery today, it was imperative that
we identified a storage solution that could help alleviate these
issues. NetApp provides the necessary storage technologies, allowing
us to reduce costs for our customers, meet stringent service-level
agreements, and ensure the security of our customers' virtual
environments,” said Mike Fink, Director-Cloud Disaster Recovery
Solutions, Terremark.

Service providers can also take
advantage of the recently announced Cisco, NetApp, and VMware Secure
Multi-tenancy Design Architecture. This validated design architecture
isolates IT resources for enhanced security in shared virtual and
enterprise cloud environments. The end-to-end design architecture
helps customers to develop internal and external cloud services that
isolate different clients, business units, departments, or security
zones for enhanced security across the computing, networking,
storage, and management layers of a unified infrastructure. “NetApp
has a proven track record of successfully teaming with leading
service providers to power their cloud service offerings. Our
strategy is to enable the success of our solution partners, not
compete with them, and through them provide a broad and open set of
industry cloud services for enterprise IT customers.” said Patrick
Rogers, VP-Solutions and Alliances, NetApp.