NetApp Data Fabric Solutions

Data Fabric Solutions is a line of cloud products for control and data movement in a hybrid cloud.

2019: Availability of Netapp Cloud Data, Fabric Orchestrator and Netapp Cloud Insights services (freemium)

On June 19, 2019 the Netapp company announced start of solutions and services which will allow customers to implement and use a cloud on conditions convenient to them.

According to the company, products of Netapp provide really trouble-free experience of use of a hybrid cloud through Netapp Cloud Data Services on NetApp of HCI, a possibility of expansion of resources of data storage, using persistent storage in the largest public clouds and also an opportunity for clients to use cloud services, to manage them and to pay for them in the most convenient method.

NetApp offers users real work experience in a hybrid multicloud by means of the approved consumption pattern of services in public clouds and DPCs. Now customers can simplify effective receiving infrastructure-as-a-service in DPCs and quicker provide services and applications using NetApp Cloud Data Services on NetApp of HCI, including:

• NetApp Kubernetes Service on NetApp HCI. Provides the automated mechanism of deployment Kubernetes, Application Marketplace and Application Orchestration, with NetApp of HCI as the unrolled region now.
• Cloud Volumes on NetApp HCI. Permanent and high-performance data storage which is provided at the expense of the debugged and simplified user experience in all main public clouds is expanded to on-premises using NetApp of HCI now. Customers will be able to simplify deployment of services and management of them in the DPCs and in a public cloud thanks to the "seamless" principle of work — such, as in a cloud.

Improvements of Netapp Cloud Data Services include:

• The beta release of Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud along with Azure NetApp Files, provides existence of completely managed services of the data paid for use measure in clouds of the leading providers at the choice of the customer.
• The Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud service provides performance, readiness and data protection which are necessary for the enterprises for work of applications, crucial for business, in Google Cloud.

Data Fabric provides the general base for the most convenient work in hybrid multiclouds. NetApp helps customers to create their unique Data Fabric to receive, integrate, automate, optimize and protect the data, applications and resources.

Solutions and services include:

• The updated tool kit for orchestration of factory of data, Fabric Orchestrator, a cloud service which helps customers to obtain data, to manage them, to automate and control them regardless of their location.
• Offers for implementation of payment in process of use give to customers flexibility in management, use and payment of the hybrid multicloud environments. These offers which provide the work experience in DPC similar to work experience in a cloud exist in two options:
  • Cloud Consumption for NetApp HCI. The local systems are delivered in the form of essentially simple model of monthly payments.
  • Cloud Volumes Service On Premises. The Netapp service which is completely managed by the customer, paid for use measure for data storage in own DPC.

• NetApp Cloud Insights is available as the offer of "Freemium" with the free version of Basic to the systems of Netapp and includes the systems of Netapp of HCI and Netapp AFF. Service also includes monitoring and optimization of placement for NetApp of HCI and NetApp Kubernetes Service in addition to monitoring in real time.
• NetApp Professional Services for the Data Fabric is provided now to customers by experience and skills which are necessary for them for design, implementation, automation and orchestration of Data Fabric, for achievement of their specific business objectives.

2017

Updating of SolidFire Element, StorageGRID Webscale, ONTAP and OnCommand Insight

The Netapp company announced on October 18, 2017 further development of the technology concept of Data Fabric. The next versions of software of Netapp SolidFire Element, StorageGRID Webscale, ONTAP and software of OnCommand Insight — crucial elements of Netapp Data Fabric which provide uniformity and integration of services of a hybrid cloud are submitted, helping customers to optimize and protect data, to reduce costs and to build architecture of DPC of the next generation.

Netapp SolidFire Element OS 10 and StorageGRID Webscale 11 simplify creation of a cloud computing architecture of the next generation, expanding the concept of Data Fabric for disclosure of complete potential of data in any environments of Netapp.

Software of Netapp ONTAP 9.3 helps the enterprises to upgrade data storage by means of management of them using faster and reliable software in all Data Fabric.

OnCommand Insight with function of monitoring of expenses on a cloud provides a complete overview of IT infrastructure of the organization irrespective of where it is located — in DPC or in a cloud. It helps the enterprises to realize the complete potential of a hybrid cloud using Data Fabric.

NetApp SolidFire

• Provides integration of Data Fabric into operating systems. Integration of Netapp SnapMirror supports data transfer from the Element OS systems on the ONTAP systems in Data Fabric. Remote data can be protected and recovered and also to apply to them other user scenarios — such as development of a data structure, the analyst or the centralized archiving.
• Helps customers to approve SLA and business objectives. SolidFire Element OS allows the enterprises to create the flexible, software-defined DWH, the most suitable for their business objectives. In such products as All-flash arrays of SolidFire, FlexPod SF and NetApp of HCI, Element OS transition to digital technologies thanks to scaling on demand provides, automation on the basis of API and also the guaranteed performance. The updated user politicians of QoS simplify management of the guaranteed performance in promptly developing private clouds.

NetApp HCI

• Provides the high performance, scaling and expense reduction. This hyper convergent infrastructure (HCI) solution of a corporate class (in Russia will be well later). The solution of Netapp of HCI constructed based on an innovation by SolidFire gives to large enterprises, representatives of medium business and an opportunity it is easy for suppliers of services to consolidate all workloads, to scale a system so that not to exhaust resources and to provide performance necessary for applications of DPC of the next generation.

StorageGRID Webscale 11

• Expands possibilities of users. Dense integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows to perform without difficulties data transmission of hybrid clouds in AWS, to instantly mirror data of DPC in Amazon S3 using StorageGRID Webscale CloudMirror technology.
• Increases efficiency. The enterprises can implement extra server data processing using notifications on services — such as Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Rekognition and Elasticsearch — even in DPC.

NetApp ONTAP 9.3

• Increases performance. Now it is easier to support performance thanks to Adaptive QoS which simplifies approval of the optimized application the politician of QoS and automatically adapts the QoS levels to changes of workload. According to NetApp, thanks to optimization of software and parallelization of bandwidth for the purpose of increase in IOPS and decrease in latency of ONTAP 9.3 provides 40 percent performance improvement in comparison with earlier versions.
• Provides increase in efficiency and economy of money. By estimates of developers, ONTAP 9.3 provides increase in economy of disk space by 30% at the expense of the optimized deduplication. ONTAP is included in a guarantee of Netapp All Flash Capacity thanks to what customers can be sure that the disk space will be spent according to certain workloads, otherwise NetApp will provide extra disk space.

OnCommand Insight

• Monitoring: a possibility of obtaining the overview of costs for cloud infrastructure on all divisions, sectors of business and applications.
• Control: control, optimization and installation of rules of expenditure of cloud resources on all organization.
• Optimization: cost reduction thanks to implementation of the most effective structure of calculation of the prices of suppliers.

Expansion of integration Cloud Control and AltaVault with Azure

On October 17, 2017 the Netapp company announced deepening of integration of the solutions Cloud Control for Office 365 and AltaVault into Microsoft Azure.

• NetApp Cloud Control for Microsoft Office 365 supports data storage in Azure now. At this Cloud Control in EMEA also APAC is also available now to customers who prefer to store data of applications, important for business Exchange, OneDrive and SharePoint in the territory of the regions.
• Support of Azure Archive Storage was added to NetApp AltaVault, and now customers can select between "hot", "cool" and "cold" options of data storage from Azure cloud for the purpose of protection of the data.
• It is simple to order the delivery of CDW — the solution which underwent laboratory approbation combines AltaVault, Veritas Backup Exec and Microsoft Azure and offers the advanced method of data backup in a cloud.

The updated Cloud Control and NetApp AltaVault are already available to acquisition.

2016: The announcement of solutions as a part of Data Fabric

On November 1, 2016 the Netapp company presented the solutions as a part of Data Fabric allowing to strengthen control and to simplify data movement in a hybrid cloud.

The enterprises look at cloud computing more and more widely and begin to practice transformation of existing applications and IT environments for increase in their flexibility, receiving new scaling options and expansion. Services of data management, such as new solutions of Netapp for data fabric, create conditions for effective data movement and control over them in corporate DPCs and in a broad spectrum of cloud environments. Rick Villars, the vice president for DPCs and cloud computing in IDC

Models of deployment of Netapp Data Fabric, (2016)

According to the statement of the company, technology and Netapp for Data Fabric services will help customers to control, manage, protect and move data between DWH of the enterprise and resources of a public cloud for creation of an IT environment. Are added to structure of a line:

• Cloud Sync Service is software as service on demand facilitates use of cloud services, helping customers to move and synchronize data between DWH of the enterprise and AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) in a cloud. Customers receive more unobstructed sight of data due to use of tools of the analysis of AWS to data on DWH of the enterprise. TSO decreases thanks to the fact that only cloud resources in process of use are paid. Cloud Sync is already available to the order in AWS shop.
• NetApp Private Storage (NPS) as a Service — NetApp expands availability of NPS for Cloud: now this solution is proposed as service in constantly growing ecosystem of partners among whom there is Arrow, Faction, ASE, DARZ and ThinkOn. Use model on the basis of operating expenses at a support on such partners as Equinix rendering services in placement of servers of the customer on the platforms gives to customers the chance to scale the capacity, performance of a cloud and costs for it. The architecture of Netapp for which the patent application is submitted allows customers to be connected safely at the same time to several public clouds.
• Cloud Control for Microsoft Office 365 — it the offer of SaaS provides simple tools for control and protection of the important data which are stored in Microsoft Office 365 including SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online. Preserving of AWS S3 given in cloud services and Azure, or in DWH of the enterprise is supported.
• Cloud Backup Solution — the solution complements with itself the existing offer of Data Fabric Solution for Cloud Disaster Recovery and provides the simplified end-to-end backup in a cloud for users of Netapp ONTAP by means of Netapp SnapMirror technology. By means of integration with AltaVault and SnapCenter customers have an opportunity to appoint the purposes for backup in a hybrid cloud, to find and recover files from repositories on the platform and in a public cloud.

The flexibility and effect of increase in scale continue to increase in IT, an opportunity to receive valuable data on the basis of the distributed data plays more and more crucial role, and in these conditions hybrid clouds are demanded more than ever. For us great pleasure to work together with NetApp, helping the enterprises to unroll successfully hybrid cloud computing architectures for expansion of the overview of data and performance improvement of their applications. Tony Bishop, the vice president for corporate vertical marketing in Equinix, Inc