SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - August 30, 2011
- Cloud computing has quickly surfaced as an important IT
initiative as more organisations evaluate alternatives to help
manage the pace and growth of their business. To help accelerate
customers' transition to the cloud, today at VMworld® 2011,
NetApp and VMware announced VMware cloud infrastructure and
management on NetApp®, a new joint solution that enables
organisations to evolve to a secure cloud computing model at their
own pace, gaining greater flexibility and efficiency without
needing to rip and replace their existing infrastructure.
News Highlights
- The solution is documented in a best practices guide and helps
customers evolve from a virtualized environment to a secure
private, hybrid or public cloud infrastructure using proven,
integrated technologies that automate and centrally manage cloud
environments, resulting in increased productivity and optimised
service levels.
- VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp simplifies
the transition to a standardised, automated service-delivery model
that scales with the business, allowing service providers,
government agencies and universities, and enterprises to invest
resources back into the business so they manage for the future and
drive innovation throughout the organisation.
- The solution helps customers evolve to the next stage of the
virtualization journey by creating a secure cloud infrastructure
using proven, integrated technologies that automate and centrally
manage cloud environments, resulting in increased productivity and
optimised service levels.
- The cloud infrastructure solution combines NetApp's flexible
and efficient Unified Storage Architecture and comprehensive set of
storage and data management capabilities built on Data ONTAP®
with VMware's recently enhanced
cloud infrastructure suite to deliver seamless integration of
cloud management, provisioning, and backup and recovery
capabilities based on existing virtualized shared IT
infrastructures. This powerful combination enables organisations to
transition to the cloud at their own pace, without the need to rip
and replace their existing infrastructure. Core features include:
- Integrated data protection with VMware vCloud® Director
enables customisable backup and recovery of tenant data within
minutes.
- Intelligent policy-based provisioning of storage and
infrastructure resources to meet stringent service-level
agreements.
- Secure isolation and control of multiple tenants (applications,
organisations, clients, users and business units) on a flexible and
efficient shared IT infrastructure.
- NetApp and VMware have a globally staffed, 24x7 direct contact
path between the VMware and NetApp support organisations and
leverage a Unified Support Lab where support engineers can
reproduce customer environments, diagnose issues, and rapidly
resolve customer cases. As customers continue to deploy cloud
infrastructure environments, they want to be certain that their
technology partners will continue to provide rapid and efficient
support. The cooperative support process enables customer problems
to be worked to completion in a seamless manner, with technical
support engineers communicating directly with each other to resolve
issues efficiently.
Supporting Quotes
- Daniel Morgenstern, manager, Windows and
Virtualization, Franklin University IT
"Franklin
University is committed to providing our students with the
educational resources and tools they need to succeed, and our IT
infrastructure is a critical foundation to ensuring that happens.
With VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp, we were
able to move to a secure private cloud that offers unprecedented
flexibility to expand in any direction, fluidly move resources, and
quickly provision services. As a result, we've been able to
optimise our resources and focus on delivering the best education
to our students."
- Paul Giobbi, president, Zumasys
"Zumasys is focused on increasing the availability and
affordability of cloud computing solutions for our customers. Using
the cloud infrastructure and management solution based on VMware
and NetApp, our customers can dynamically scale their applications
and automatically self-provision server and storage resources.
Customers can choose to keep some applications onsite, some in a
public cloud, and some on the Zumasys platform with portability
between locations. With this solution, we can provide a more
flexible and affordable path to the cloud for our customers."
- Chris Cummings, vice president of Products and
Solutions Marketing, NetApp
"As enterprises look for ways to accelerate their businesses, they
recognise that the decisions they make now affect not only how they
compete today but also how prepared they are for the future. For
many, there's substantial upside to evolving from a virtualized
environment to a cloud architecture. NetApp and VMware are
delivering a secure, integrated solution that allows customers to
build on their virtualized environments without having to rip and
replace their current IT infrastructures. This saves invaluable
time, money, and productivity that they can reinvest back in the
business."
- Gary Green, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances,
VMware
"VMware and NetApp have built a strong relationship to deliver
innovative solutions that help customers derive value from existing
IT investments while preparing for the datacenter of the future.
With this new solution, we're taking another step forward in
helping joint customers virtualize more of the IT environment -
including their most demanding business-critical applications - to
continue building the foundation for cloud computing."
Availability
The VMware
and NetApp products that make up the VMware cloud infrastructure
and management on NetApp solution are currently available and can
be purchased directly from NetApp and VMware, or through the
companies' worldwide network of value-added authorised resellers,
distributors and systems integrators. For more information, please
visit
www.netapp.com/us/solutions/infrastructure/vmware-cloud-infrastructure.html.
Additional Resources
About NetApp
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) creates innovative storage and data
management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and
deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for
helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com/au.
About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure
solutions that enable IT organisations to energise businesses of
all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform -
VMware vSphere® - customers rely on VMware to reduce capital
and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business
continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of
$2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners,
VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as
a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon
Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at
www.vmware.com.
Press Contact:
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