NetApp(NASDAQ:NTAP) has announced new solutions that increase and simplify automation of software-defined storage elements and provide fine-grained management of VMware virtual machine data, including evaluation software that interoperates with VMware’s Virtual Volumes to help customers achieve more efficient IT operations at a lower cost. Additionally, NetApp is announcing new OnCommand software with enhanced data protection and improved reporting capabilities, and flash-optimized FlexPod with VMware Horizon View for end-user computing.
NetApp is a key design partner for VMware’s Virtual Volumes, a new data storage architecture designed to enable granular, VM-level management of storage resources and data services, based on application-centric policies. NetApp’s solution for VMware Virtual Volumes will deliver advanced policy-based software-defined storage management. NetApp’s support for Virtual Volumes builds upon NetApp’s patented Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for VMware that improves data storage efficiency and reduces cost and complexity in a VMware virtual infrastructure environment.
"Software-defined storage is a foundation for the cloud that allows NetApp and VMware to deliver agile, simple, and easy scalable IT infrastructures," said Dan Neault, Senior Vice-President, Datacenter Solutions Group, NetApp. "Our new solutions for VMware environments accelerate our customers’ businesses with automated, simple, and efficient IT operations. NetApp is focussed on simplifying data center deployment, monitoring, management, and automation whether data lives on-premises or in the cloud."
NetApp is also releasing new offerings for VMware solutions. These new offerings include an update to Virtual Storage Console with one-click clustered configuration enabling simple and quick deployment of clustered Data ONTAP into vSphere, NetApp Certification for VMware Horizon View Composer API for Array Integration (VCAI), and via partner Blue Medora, a new vCenter Operations Management Pack for NetApp Storage that provides end-to-end visibility, analytics and capacity planning for workloads running on NetApp Storage.
