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NetApp extends data fabric with DevOps announcements

October 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp extends data fabric with DevOps announcements
NetApp made a flurry of announcements on Wednesday at Insight extending their data fabric, with special relevance to developers and architects, emphasizing their cloud-first focus, and articulating their hybrid and multi-cloud proposition.

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Cloud

Major new Azure integration highlights NetApp cloud announcements

October 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Major new Azure integration highlights NetApp cloud announcements
NetApp is touting the new Azure NetApp Files as a huge extension of their Microsoft relationship, which gives them a level of integration with their Azure cloud that Microsoft has not done before with anyone. Other announcements include the General Availability of NetApp Cloud Insights, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and new ONTAP support for NetApp HCI.

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Cloud

‘Lead With the Cloud’ seminal message to NetApp partners going forward

June 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ‘Lead With the Cloud’ seminal message to NetApp partners going forward
NetApp’s cloud business is still fairly small, but their offerings will roll out in force this year, and NetApp wants customers to lead with them – a strategic decision that would have seemed bizarre not long ago, but is now central to the new NetApp.

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Cloud

NetApp adapting storage and software business unit to Cloud First requirements

June 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp adapting storage and software business unit to Cloud First requirements
All-flash led NetApp’s climb back from the brink to profitability, and all-flash remains one of NetApp’s strategic priorities this year. However, while Joel Reich’s business unit delivers most NetApp revenue, its development priorities have transitioned to the new Cloud First approach

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Cloud

NetApp now shipping newly-announced AFF A800 end-to-end NVMe enterprise platform

May 8, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp now shipping newly-announced AFF A800 end-to-end NVMe enterprise platform
NetApp becomes the first vendor to actually ship a NVMe fabric solution, with the AFF A800.

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Backup

NetApp, Veeam extend partnership with first resell agreement

October 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp, Veeam extend partnership with first resell agreement
The deal is aimed at strengthening Veeam in the enterprise, and NetApp in the midmarket and SMB, and follows up several other recent Veeam resale partnerships.

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Software

New ONTAP 9.3 release highlights NetApp Data Fabric announcements

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New ONTAP 9.3 release highlights NetApp Data Fabric announcements
NetApp has announced upgrades to key software products that make up their Data Fabric, including ONTAP 9.3.

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Storage

Komprise extends data management capabilities in 2.6 release of flagship software

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Komprise extends data management capabilities in 2.6 release of flagship software
Komprise adds full lifecycle management abilities, as well as the ability to confine defined data to make it invisible without deleting it, and the ability to build custom queries.

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Cloud

NetApp extends Microsoft partnership with NFS service for Azure powered by NetApp

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp extends Microsoft partnership with NFS service for Azure powered by NetApp
NetApp indicated no plans to extend this service capability to AWS, although from a functionality purpose it is the logical extension of this deal.

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Storage

NetApp turns on Watson-powered Elio virtual support for customers

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp turns on Watson-powered Elio virtual support for customers
Elio is a chatbot that provides first level technical support using IBM Watson technology. NetApp has also enhanced their ActiveIQ cloud-based analytics.

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Cloud

NetApp adds new threads to their data fabric

November 1, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp adds new threads to their data fabric
NetApp announces a series of new and enhanced data services, as well as a refresh of several solutions aimed at the hybrid cloud.

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Data Centre

NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire

September 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire
Twelve years ago, NetApp acquired scale-out NAS startup Spinnaker, and began a long and horrific series of integration problems. This year, they acquired SolidFire’s scale-out technology, and took steps to learn from the lessons of the past.

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Channel Programs

NetApp reworks channel strategy to get its mojo back

September 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp reworks channel strategy to get its mojo back
Over the last year, NetApp has reshaped its channel strategy extensively, and will soon cap it with a new Hard Deck policy. Unlike a similar named policy of an old competitor, NetApp thinks this one will be highly popular with partners.

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Cloud

NetApp transformation goes far beyond product: CTO Bregman

September 27, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp transformation goes far beyond product: CTO Bregman
Mark Bregman, NetApp’s CTO, sits down for a detailed talk about NetApp’s technology strategy going forward, and why the company is convinced it has made the difficult transition from a vendor of yesterday to a vendor of tomorrow.

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Storage

NetApp deepens flash push with new ONTAP software, all-flash systems

September 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp deepens flash push with new ONTAP software, all-flash systems
The new software adds software based encryption, container support and major performance and latency increases that NetApp says will continue their momentum in flash and hybrid.

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