NetApp, the original intelligent data company, is debuting a myriad of new features designed to support VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployments, as well as capabilities for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) and virtual environment optimization. These latest innovations will help mutual customers maximize the efficiency and value of their private and hybrid cloud environments, according to the company.
Building from NetApp and VMware’s long standing design collaboration, NetApp’s latest capabilities serve to optimize costs, simplify operations, and increase flexibility for customers running VMware environments.
“NetApp and Broadcom are working together to take the uncertainty out of hybrid cloud environments,” said Jonsi Stefansson, senior vice president and chief technology officer at NetApp. “More than 20,000 customers rely on NetApp to support their VMware workloads. NetApp's continued close collaboration with Broadcom following the acquisition of VMware ensures our solutions seamlessly interoperate so our mutual customers can leverage a single intelligent data infrastructure to operate their VMware workloads more efficiently.”
The first of these new features expand support for VCF, enabling the use of NetApp ONTAP storage software to simplify VCF hybrid cloud environments. The latest iteration of ONTAP Tools for VMware (OTV) supports SnapMirror active sync, allowing customers to increase their operational efficiency and improve data availability by offloading data protection from their virtualized compute, according to NetApp.
“As organizations modernize infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation, they want to know that the services upon which they rely from industry leaders such as NetApp will continue to work seamlessly and deliver the value they have come to expect,” said Paul Turner, vice president of products, VCF Division at Broadcom. “Having NetApp as a close collaborator helps our mutual customers deploy innovative data and storage services on top of their private cloud platform, and ensure they are getting the most value out of their VMware environments.”
For AVS, customers can now utilize Spot Eco by NetApp with AVS reserved instances for customers extending or migrating their vSphere workloads to the cloud. This empowers enterprises to get the most value out of their deployments, especially when paired with Azure NetApp Files to offload data storage and drive down compute costs.
“We have made Microsoft Azure the cloud of choice for VMware environments and offer fast and cost-effective solutions enabling many customers to move their VMware workloads to the cloud.” said Brett Tanzer, vice president of product management at Microsoft. “As VMware customers navigate changes to operating virtualized environments, we have given our customers a way to lock in secure and predictable pricing over multiple years. NetApp's data management and cloud observability capabilities help our customers ensure those deployments are delivering the return on investment they need.”
Finally, NetApp is debuting Cloud Insights VM Optimization, extending its solution to support virtual environment optimization for VMware. This solution offers a variety of tools that reduce cost by increasing VM density, run storage at the best price-to-performance ratio, and increase environment visibility across availability, performance, and configuration adherence metrics. Additionally, NetApp is offering a 30-day free trial of Cloud Insights, enabling customers to research the most cost-effective way to migrate to new VMware software subscriptions, according to the company.
“In an ever more complicated world of cloud, data, and infrastructure operations, IT teams are increasingly looking for holistic platforms over point solutions,” said Scott Sinclair, practice director, Enterprise Strategy Group. “These joint updates from NetApp and Broadcom enable customers to use NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure to consolidate multiple data operations onto a single platform with industry-leading data management and CloudOps capabilities. That will help customers drive greater operational and infrastructure efficiencies that reduce the total cost of ownership for their VMware investments.”
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