NetApp Delivers Services For The Cloud
NetApp Together With Best-Of-Breed Technology And Channel Partners Deliver Infrastructures And Services For The Cloud
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — August 25, 2009—As part of NetApp’s cloud computing news announcements today, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) highlighted its close relationships with industry-leading Information Technology (IT) vendors and enterprise Value Added Resellers (VARs) to provide enterprise customers with the technology and solutions needed to build their cloud infrastructures, including global service providers and system integrators that are leveraging NetApp technology to create cloud service offerings for their own enterprise customers.
“NetApp believes that because there are several elements that must come together to create a cloud infrastructure, no single vendor is able to adequately address each and every layer,” said Peter O’Connor, vice president and managing director for NetApp Australia and New Zealand. “It’s imperative that customers identify the right partners that can provide the services, technology, and integration necessary for their unique cloud needs. Today’s announcement not only spotlights the best-of-breed partners that NetApp has cultivated to help customers, but also helps validate our technology offering for the cloud thanks to the many service providers and system integrators who are leveraging NetApp solutions.”
Following is an overview of some of the partners and customers NetApp is working with to enable the cloud. To watch a video and hear what they’re saying about their relationship with NetApp and the company’s strategy and approach to cloud computing, click here.
AUSTRALIAN RESELLERS DELIVERING ENTERPRISE
CLOUD SERVICES
NetApp has teamed with local Platinum
Partners to provide customers with cost-effective data
centre solutions. Many of these partners and customers
share NetApp’s cloud vision and are working to meet those
customers’ unique requirements.
“Thomas Duryea
Consulting is pleased to collaborate with NetApp as a
strategic cloud computing partner. Companies are looking to
drive greater efficiencies in their IT environment through
the deployment of internal and external cloud computing
services. We believe NetApp technologies and solutions will
help us address the challenges our clients
face.”
- Andrew Thomas, Managing Director, Thomas
Duryea Consulting
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
NetApp works
closely with the industry’s leading IT vendors to provide
joint customers with the solutions and infrastructure needed
to enable the cloud. These technology partners include
vendors who provide leading management, server, application,
software, and networking technologies and solutions that all
leverage the power of virtualization to help deliver a
service-oriented dynamic data centre.
BMC
Software
"The benefits of cloud computing—improved
business agility, self-service, reduced capex—are well
documented, but they can only be truly recognized with a
comprehensive business service management strategy that
reduces risk and drives compliance. Together, BMC and NetApp
are providing IT organizations and service providers with a
comprehensive, integrated service and storage management
solution for cloud and virtual environments."
- Kia
Behnia, chief technology officer for BMC
Software
Brocade
“A powerful and flexible IT
infrastructure must be in place to deliver upon the key
requirements of an IT-as-a-service model. In support of this
emerging trend, Brocade intends to work with industry
partners such as NetApp through our Network Infrastructure
as a Service (NIaaS) technology platform, which is designed
to support a heterogeneous environment and interoperate
seamlessly with multiple manufacturer products and all
virtualization software offerings. Brocade and NetApp have
long shared a goal of helping our mutual customers drive out
costs, improve agility, and increase reliability, and this
collaboration is the latest example of that.”
- Dave
Stevens, vice president and chief technology officer for
Brocade
Cisco
“There is a lot of interest in
cloud-like data centre architectures amongst organizations
in Asia Pacific but also some uncertainty. An ecosystem
approach that incorporates industry-leading solutions is a
good way to instill confidence in end-users. Cisco will
continue to work closely with companies like NetApp to
ensure that end-users are able to take full advantage of the
virtualization of their ICT resources.”
-
Andre Smit, managing director, Data Centre business, Asia
Pacific, Cisco
Citrix
“Citrix Cloud Centre (C3)
integrated with NetApp storage systems provides cloud
providers with a robust platform for delivering
infrastructure as a service. As the foundation for Citrix
C3, XenServer and Citrix Essentials enable cloud service
providers to seamlessly leverage the advanced NetApp storage
capabilities across their cloud platform, reducing the time
and cost to deploy highly scalable and elastic
services.”
- Frank Artale, vice president of business
development for Citrix Systems, Inc.
Computer
Associates
“CA and NetApp are excited about how
enterprises and cloud computing providers utilize automation
and virtualization to drive business value in the
next-generation data centre and achieve lean IT. Storage is
a key part of the overall IT-as-a-service value. We look
forward to continued collaboration that integrates CA’s
business-driven automation and assurance offerings with
NetApp’s storage management solutions to help customers
create and leverage a cloud-based business service across
multiple infrastructure elements, including storage. This
comprehensive approach to cloud management will further help
improve productivity and service quality, provide increased
agility, and reduce risks.”
- Roger Pilc, corporate
senior vice president and general manager for CA’s
Infrastructure Management and Automation business
unit
Fujitsu America
“As data centre dynamics shift
to a service-oriented infrastructure, Fujitsu is committed
to providing customers with a complete and well-rounded
technology infrastructure for the cloud. In order to deliver
cloud solutions to our customers, we work closely with some
of the industry’s leading virtualization technology
providers such as NetApp.”
- Richard McCormack, senior
vice president, Product & Solution Marketing for Fujitsu
America
Microsoft
“Microsoft and NetApp provide
powerful solutions for building and managing private cloud
infrastructures. We’re helping innovative organizations
transition to private cloud computing environments by
providing them with the required combination of
virtualization, service-oriented management systems, and a
scale-out application model. With NetApp storage and
Microsoft® virtualizations solutions, customers can deploy
cost-effective and efficient data centre infrastructure that
provides fast response to their businesses’
needs.”
- Zane Adam, senior director, virtualization
and management for Microsoft Corp.
SAP
“SAP®
Business ByDesign leverages NetApp to provide our customers
with a complete, integrated on-demand software-as-a-service
(SaaS) solution. With the NetApp platform we are able to
quickly provision our internal storage resources, enabling
customers to accelerate deployment of their SaaS solution.
In addition we can quickly conduct disk-to-disk backup,
providing our customers with access to their data on demand.
With the help of NetApp our customers experience the
reliability and efficiency that they have come to expect
from services leveraging cloud principles in internal IT
systems.”
- Bernd Himmelsbach, director of SAP
Business ByDesign Infrastructure Management for
SAP
VMware
“With VMware® vSphere™ 4 and NetApp
storage technologies, enterprises can build and operate a
virtualized, services-based data centre to more rapidly
address changes in business requirements, meet the demand
for 24x7 business resiliency, and drastically reduce costs.
VMware vSphere 4 allows IT to virtualize and allocate
resources on demand and complements the special cloud
benefits of NetApp storage. VMware and NetApp together help
enable the next generation of flexible, reliable enterprise
IT services with the efficiency, control, and choice that
cloud computing offers.”
- Paul Harapin, Managing
Director, VMware Australia and New Zealand
ENTERPRISE VARs
Enterprise VARs are integral components of NetApp’s
success today. NetApp and its channel partners have been
working closely to deliver a broad set of virtualization
solutions to help customers achieve a cost-efficient data
centre. Many of these partners share NetApp’s vision of
the cloud and will continue the close collaboration to serve
their customers.
Avnet Technology Solutions
"Our
reseller partners have the choice of selling or leasing
equipment to their customers, or simply taking advantage of
our infrastructure-as-a-service offering. Our partners can
offer their customers the benefits of a data centre without
the capital expenditure and issues of having to own and
operate one. These cloud services become just an expense
item for our partners' end customers, not an ongoing
challenge of managing infrastructure and finding and
retaining good people."
- Stephen Lester, director of IT
for Avnet Technology Solutions
INX
“INX is pleased to
partner with NetApp as a strategic cloud computing partner.
INX leverages NetApp technology to offer both internal and
external cloud computing services to our clients in the form
of dynamic data centre architecture, hosted production and
disaster recovery services, and in managed services. NetApp
also plays a pivotal role in driving efficiencies in our
internal operations, which also helps us to better address
our clients’ challenges.”
- Mark Hilz, president and
chief operating officer for INX
Long View
"NetApp is a
strategic cloud computing partner for Long View. With NetApp
storage and data management we can build a service-based and
virtualized dynamic infrastructure that forms the foundation
for efficient internal or external cloud solutions for our
enterprise customers. We look forward to continued
collaboration with NetApp to bring automated cloud services
to our customers to improve business agility and reduce data
centre costs.”
- Dan Sottile, senior vice president,
North America Sales, Marketing, and Business Development for
Long View
SERVICE PROVIDERS DELIVERING ENTERPRISE CLOUD
SERVICES
Some of the world’s leading service providers
utilize NetApp storage and data management solutions at the
core of their cloud service offerings. By leveraging
NetApp’s unique technologies and solutions for the cloud,
service providers are able to provide their customers with
competitive service-level agreements, faster service
delivery, and lower costs. NetApp is committed to providing
its service provider customers with tailored solutions and
technologies that address their customers’ unique cloud
infrastructure requirements.
Joyent
“At Joyent, we
leverage NetApp's storage solutions to deliver the core of
our Cloud Storage product lineup. More and more enterprises
are transitioning to the cloud. Joyent is focused on
ensuring that when our customers make this transition they
do not have to give up high-performance, reliable,
enterprise-class storage and disaster recovery tools. NetApp
storage allows these customers to take their
business-critical apps from their data centre to the Joyent
Cloud.”
- Mark Mayo, vice president of Engineering for
Joyent, Inc.
Rackspace
"Rackspace relies on NetApp
storage and data management technology for a variety of
hosting options. NetApp is a key component in powering The
Rackspace Cloud, our cloud division. With NetApp we can
create a virtual, shared, and dynamic infrastructure with
extremely high
utilization. This allows us to provide
industry-leading cost efficiencies to our customers.
Rackspace also uses NetApp to provide Dedicated NAS services
to Enterprise Managed Hosting customers seeking a dedicated
file storage and data protection solution."
- John
Engates, chief technology officer for Rackspace
Siemens IT
Solutions and Services, Inc.
“Our NetApp platform
provides Siemens IT Solutions and Services with advanced
capabilities, including storage virtualization, thin
provisioning (FlexVol®), data deduplication, file
consolidation, disk-based recovery, remote replication,
cloning, ATA support, and multiple connectivity
choices—all in a single, unified platform. They are
foundation technologies for our infrastructure-as-a-service
and private cloud capabilities. These features, when
leveraged with virtualization, create the structure for a
dynamic storage environment that can be provisioned based on
business needs in real time.”
- John Hill, chief
technology officer for Siemens IT Solutions and Services,
Inc.
Tata Communications Ltd.
“Tata Communications
Ltd. has built its global hosting, on-demand storage
services based on leading technologies and industry
practices. Using NetApp for our cloud-based services allows
us to easily manage and monitor our infrastructure to
provide secure, 24x7x365 availability and lower costs for
our enterprise customers while relieving them of the
day-to-day management of their IT infrastructure. Together
with NetApp we enable our customers to flexibly support
their business requirements today and then quickly scale up
or down as their business needs change, paying only for what
they need.”
- Abid Qadiri, vice president, Data Centre
Services for Tata Communications,
Ltd.
Terremark
“Terremark has leveraged NetApp’s
technology to deliver reliable storage and disaster recovery
solutions for many years. As a recognized leader in cloud
computing, we feel that the features, reliability,
efficiency and manageability of NetApp technologies
complement Terremark’s ability to deliver advanced
cloud-based services to enterprise-class
customers.”
- Tom Mays, senior vice president for
Terremark
T-Systems
“T-Systems provides over 170
enterprise customers worldwide with cloud services for key
applications like SAP® and Microsoft® Exchange with our
Dynamic Services offering. Together with our technology
partners we are able to achieve 90% service infrastructure
utilization, allowing us to pass on both cost savings and
higher service levels to our customers. In fact, our
customers see up to 30% reduction in cost using Dynamic
Services vs. in-house hosting. Furthermore, our customers
benefit from integrated data protection and secure
multi-tenancy while we are able to flexibly scale IT
resources up and down in a matter of hours rather than days
or weeks. NetApp is an essential component to enabling all
of these benefits by regularly and reliably delivering on
our specific requirements.”
- Olaf Heyden, member of
the Board of Management T-Systems for ICT
Operations
SYSTEM INTEGRATORS DELIVERING ENTERPRISE CLOUD
SERVICES
NetApp provides its system integrator customers
with the storage infrastructure for their cloud service
offerings. As a result these system integrators are able to
deliver the unique solutions that an enterprise environment
demands.
Accenture
“Accenture’s clients have many
requirements for cloud infrastructures, including economy of
implementation, simplicity of operation, high-performance,
multi-application processing, and assured data security.
Accenture and its technology partners such as NetApp are
committed to delivering this combination to enable our
clients to reduce costs while improving responsiveness and
performance.”
- John Kaltenmark, managing director for
Accenture Technology Consulting
Avanade
“Enterprises
look to cloud computing to reduce costs and deliver critical
performance requirements through shared environments.
Avanade and NetApp collaborated to shift one of the
world’s largest exchange environments to a virtualized,
shared infrastructure. The move delivers reliable service
levels, even during rapid shifts in locations and
activity.”
- Tyson Hartman, chief technology officer
and vice president of Enterprise Technology Solutions for
Avanade
CSC
“CSC collaborates with NetApp to deploy
CSC Dynamic Desktop to help clients drive additional cost
and complexity out of their virtual desktop IT environment
and deliver optimized computing capacity. To date, the
companies have jointly developed and delivered cloud-enabled
solutions, integrated data centre solutions,
high-performance computing systems, and managed
infrastructure services. We are very pleased to be working
with world-class technology partners such as NetApp to
provide customers with sound business solutions backed by an
experienced IT services leader.”
- Russ Owen,
president of CSC's Managed Services
Sector
Unisys
“Unisys is pleased to partner with
NetApp to provide the federal sector with an innovative
utility storage service offering. This scalable
‘pay-as-you-go’ solution allows clients to access their
data with the assurance that their assets are securely
managed within a proven and structured delivery framework.
This unique offering provides significant flexibility and
cost benefits to clients and positions NetApp and Unisys as
leading providers of data centre transformation solutions
for the federal government.”
- Venkatapathi Puvvada,
managing partner, Horizontal Services and chief technology
officer for Unisys Federal
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Additional Resources
To learn more about today’s
news, read the press release about NetApp’s new
technologies and solutions for the cloud or visit the NetApp
Cloud Experience.
For more perspective on NetApp’s cloud enablement strategy and vision, please visit one of several NetApp blogs, including that of Dave Hitz, NetApp founder and executive vice president (http://blogs.netapp.com/dave); Jay Kidd, NetApp’s chief marketing officer (http://blogs.netapp.com/jay); and the new “Breaking Through the Cloud” NetApp team blog (http://blogs.netapp.com/cloud/).
Also, listen to Val Bercovici, NetApp cloud czar, in a two-part series discussing all things cloud, including customer requirements, NetApp’s definition, and NetApp’s approach to helping customers deploy the cloud.
Please visit NetApp Play-by-Play as Jeff O’Neal, senior director of Data Centre Solutions for NetApp, takes a deeper dive into how NetApp is enabling ITaaS.
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