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Major new Azure integration highlights NetApp cloud announcements

October 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

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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NetApp places big bet on hyperconverged infrastructure

June 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

At their C3 partner event this week, NetApp exhorted partners to ramp up their efforts to sell NetApp’s new HCI offering based on Solidfire technology, while not letting up on their FlexPod CI activities.

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New ONTAP 9.3 release highlights NetApp Data Fabric announcements

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

NetApp has announced upgrades to key software products that make up their Data Fabric, including ONTAP 9.3.

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‘Old news’ of NetApp HCI solution availability still the big INSIGHT highlight to NetApp channel

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The first-ever NetApp HCI solution, announced in June, will be available in October, and that, rather than the shinier and newer announcements at INSIGHT, was what had solution providers buzzing.

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NetApp turns on Watson-powered Elio virtual support for customers

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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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NetApp, Cisco bring SolidFire software to all-Cisco platform with FlexPod SF

June 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The second stage of the NetApp transformation strategy emphasizes expanding their market to buyers beyond traditional storage and infrastructure decision makers, and they think FlexPod SF will help them there.

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Entry into hyper-converged market highlights multiple major NetApp announcements

June 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Other highlights include the new version of their ONTAP software, a new usage-based consumption option to purchase infrastructure, enhancing their OCI software, and expanding their free controller upgrade program to credits for a broader array of NetApp purchases.

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NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire

September 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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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NetApp reworks channel strategy to get its mojo back

September 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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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NetApp transformation goes far beyond product: CTO Bregman

September 27, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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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NetApp CEO says new tech trends aid NetApp

March 10, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

At a customer event in Toronto on Wednesday, NetApp CEO George Kurian laid out the company’s case to key customers and partners why the storage pioneer is well positioned for the new age of IT.

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SolidFire adds new Dell-VMware reference architecture for virtual infrastructure

October 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The fourth in SolidFire’s series of Agile Infrastructure architectures, this one facilitates the design and deployment of dynamic virtual infrastructure to deliver secure multi-tenancy.

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SolidFire adds specialization tiers to partner program

June 30, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Four specializations are being announced, one of which is around OpenStack, which SolidFire believes is an industry first. .

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SolidFire broadens channel opportunities with new offerings

March 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

A new software solution for commodity hardware is aimed at service providers, and won’t be much of a reseller play, but gives SolidFire the distinction of being able to sell the exact same solution as an appliance, infrastructure, as a service, and now software.

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