NetApp Hybrid cloud solutions provide a wealth of functionality. The NetApp cloud solutions are NetApp Private Storage, Cloud ONTAP and the AltaVault Appliance. In this post I will introduce a few of capabilities.
NetApp Private Cloud, Cloud ONTAP, and AltaVault Appliance
NetApp Private Storage (NPS) is NetApp storage systems - such as Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) or an all-flash - residing in co-located facilities worldwide. NPS is directly connected to public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or IBM Softlayer. Since most public cloud storage services are used to support cloud computer, IO performance is often unpredictable and slow, while control is out of IT's hands. In contrast, NPS supplies Data ONTAP IO services for public cloud compute instances that can (1) provide predictable, high IO performance through direct connections to the cloud, (2) improve data control by guaranteeing data locality, and (3) maintain security and compliance by securely storing data on NetApp storage systems.
NetApp also offers Cloud ONTAP, which is ONTAP software that runs in the cloud and uses premium cloud services as its underlying storage. Issues with cloud storage services include limited functionality and inadequate or nonexistent integration with on-‐premises storage. However, with Cloud ONTAP,on-‐premises NetApp storage can be replicated to the cloud as often as needed in an efficient deduplicated and compressed manner. Moreover, the cloud compute environment can now ease the administrative burden for cloud applications using Cloud ONTAP’s advanced storage management functionality. However, unlike NPS, which is a hybrid solution that combines on-‐premises and cloud-‐based resources, Cloud ONTAP is a purely cloud-‐based solution.
Finally, NetApp offers AltaVault Appliance (AVA) in physical, virtual, and cloud-‐ based implementations. With an AVA running in your data center, you can simultaneously use local disk storage and cloud storage to hold backup data. Further, the AltaVault Cloud-‐based Appliance is an AVA software implementation that executes in the cloud, which means you can use AVA cloud backup data to restore backups within the cloud compute infrastructure, such as for disaster recovery, data validation, and testing purposes. The AVA performs inline data compression and deduplication, and it automatically encrypts and replicates all backup data to cloud storage. The AVA offers cloud replication services to many public cloud storage such as Amazon S3™/S3-‐IA/Glacier, Microsoft Azure™ Blob storage and Google cloud standard/nearline storage, as well as private cloud storage services such as NetApp StorageGRID™ Webscale, IBM Cleversafe and EMC Atmos™.
IT organizations that take advantage of NetApp hybrid cloud offerings can provide a deeper data protection repository, a more readily available DR solution and a faster way to supply current customer data for engineering activities. NetApp hybrid cloud solutions enable IT to take advantage of cloud offerings in order to reduce costs and improve services for their users, customers and internal engineering communities.
