Too much cloud movement lead to collaborations!
Cloud adoption is enabling massive business transformation and tremendous growth for today’s digital business. But it also creates huge visibility gaps and span of control challenges for organizations. While hybrid architectures are a reality for most modern enterprises, cloud is now considered an extension of the enterprise infrastructure. The majority of performance management tools available in the market are incapable of providing unified and user-centric visibility for hybrid cloud environments and the user’s digital experience. In the 2018 State of Cloud Monitoring Survey recently conducted by Riverbed, IT network and cloud business decision makers shared their difficulties with 92% of participants stating they faced challenges with performance management in their cloud environment, and 60% of participants stating that their end users experienced cloud performance issues first before companies knew about them.
As cloud adoption has become ubiquitous, cloud deployments and the applications themselves have become increasingly complex and distributed. Public cloud continues to make inroads, with research showing that 41% of enterprises are heavily using public cloud and 72% of those users are deploying in multi-cloud environments. So, it is of no surprise that 60% of organizations anticipate that they will invest in cloud services monitoring and visibility over the next two years.
To address the growing opportunity, Lenovo and NetApp's storage alliance, joint venture in China, and new series of all-flash and hybrid flash products announced at Lenovo's Transform event, put them both in a much stronger position in the datacenter against rivals Dell EMC and HPE. The storage offerings include two familes, each subdivided into all-fash and hybrid -flash products, jointly developed by Lenovo and NetApp and available now worldwide. Several of the products support NVMe (non-volatile memory express), the extremely fast communications protocol and controller able to move data to and from SSDs via the PCIe-bus standard. NVMe SSDs are designed to provide two orders of magnitude speed improvement over prior SSDs.
This is a win-win approach for both Lenovo and NetApp, where Lenovo has a line-up of SAN (storage-attached network), DAS (direct-attached storage) and tape storage products. NetApp, meanwhile, gets access to Lenovo manufacturing, global channels and a huge customer base.
With Lenovo targeting the enterprises and pitching storage from the flash storage leader along with their broad portfolio of servers, this will definitely help them to compete with Dell EMC and HPE.
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