NetApp Cloud Volumes

2019: Release of Netapp Cloud Volumes Service and Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud

On November 25, 2019 it became known that Netapp company together with Google Cloud announced an exit of Netapp Cloud Volumes Service, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud that will help the organizations to focus on innovations in any hybrid environments.

The enterprises aim to take fully advantage of flexibility and efficiency which is provided by a cloud, but they need to be sure that their data are in security and in the reliable place that service is offered at reasonable price and can be scaled if necessary. For achievement of these purposes business builds the Data Fabrics which provide the maximum flexibility upon transition to hybrid multicloud environments. NetApp and Google Cloud help clients to realize all potential of the data on the basis of deeply integrated solutions of a corporate class for work with data optimized and certified for Google Cloud

• NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is the cloud file service integrated into Google Cloud and providing performance, availability and security necessary for effective work of applications, crucial for business. Besides, clients had an opportunity with confidence to start applications in Google Cloud. Cloud Volumes Service also became available to Google Cloud in Great Britain.
• At the global level NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud the solution for data management accelerating for the enterprises transition to cloud solutions by ensuring the increased data protection, efficiency of storage and mobility in Google Cloud and hybrid multicloud environments became also public.

We expand the partnership with NetApp allowing to transfer data of clients to hybrid multicloud environments and to make solutions of Netapp public for Google Cloud. Besides, clients have now an opportunity to unroll Anthos on the certified HCI from NetApp, providing to clients the bigger choice in hardware on-prem solutions on which they can start Antho, told Kevin Ichhpurani, the corporate vice president of Global Ecosystem in Google Cloud

Services and solutions on data management of Netapp help customers to manage effectively transition from on-prem to hybrid and multicloud environments.

2018

Expansion of availability of Cloud Volumes to Google Cloud Platform

The Netapp company announced on December 5, 2018 expansion of availability of Cloud Volumes Service to Google Cloud Platform.

In particular, the region of EU-West3 was added. According to developers, it will help customers:

• To make decisions due to moving of analytics to a cloud quicker.
• Protect databases in high-performance file services in a cloud for ensuring high-speed testing and iteration of all applications and workloads with a simultaneous possibility of fast return to the initial database if something goes not so.

• Accelerate profit earning, automating development and testing of environments at the expense of an opportunity to clone hundreds of environments in read minutes.

Features of Cloud Volumes for Amazon Web Services

For October, 2018 NetApp Cloud Volumes for AWS offers the approved services of data management of NFS and SMB for AWS.

Features of the solution:

• Expanded flexibility of DevOps thanks to support of REST API and the preliminary overview of Cloud Backup service.
• Providing broader services of the corporate level for cloud applicaions that provides accomplishment of workloads in a cloud with the speed limit and predictability without prejudice to flexibility.
• Support of lakes of the sources given with a set and simultaneous sharing of data several applications.
• Elimination of need for repeated architecture of file applications for a cloud; they can just be transferred to a cloud without preliminary development cycles.
• Expanded availability in regions in APAC and EMEA, including Sydney, Tokyo, Dublin, Frankfurt and London.

Cloud Volumes for AWS can be purchased in NetApp and at her partners, and soon this service with additional opportunities of use in international markets can be purchased on AWS Marketplace.

Features of Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform

NetApp Cloud Volumes Service offers the cloud file storage providing the high performance and expanded data management in cloud applicaions.

For October, 2018 NetApp Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform is service No-ops with native experience, including support of Google, Google Cloud UI for selection of resources and management of them and also with three performance levels: Standard, Premium and Extreme. It provides services of the NFS and SMB protocols for support of a full range of the works necessary for workloads of customers of GCP.

Features of the solution:

• The accelerated decision making due to moving of analytics to a cloud.
• Protection of databases in high-performance file services in a cloud for ensuring high-speed testing and iteration of all applications and workloads with simultaneous ensuring fast return to the initial database if something goes not so.
• Smaller time of payback thanks to the accelerated copying of files that allows developers to clone hundreds of environments, reducing time of testing and quality check.
• Now Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform offers an opportunity for work with data of the production rate in addition to expanded availability to US-Central1 and US-East4.

The announcement of Netapp Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform

In May, 2018 the Netapp company announced release of Netapp Cloud Volumes service for a cloud platform of Google. NetApp Cloud Volumes offers customers the managed cloud file DWH integrated with a cloud platform of Google (GCP). This release is the first step in partnership which combines an extensive line of Netapp services on data management which hundreds of thousands of customers, with the cloud products Google Cloud demanded in the field of application development, analytics and machine learning use. Moreover, NetApp provided highly productive a flash system with a possibility of direct connection to a cloud, softwares helping to optimize work of the artificial intelligence (AI), and resource-intensive applications and also the innovation which provides the maximum compliance of IT infrastructure to standards of safety of information. The company announced these innovations at opening new a briefing center of Data Visionary Center.

Providing applications of artificial intelligence with necessary resources for their effective work is very difficult task for traditional solutions. Using the concept of Data Fabric, NetApp integrates the leading services of data management for public clouds and the solution on a basis a flash systems with a possibility of direct connection to a cloud, helping customers to automate data management and to draw from them the maximum pecuniary benefit.