White Papers

The market for cloud-based data protection presents an opportunity for you to quickly grow revenue and increase profitability with the right supporting infrastructure. The data protection solution from Asigra and NetApp gives you the ability to minimize capital expenditure and operating costs per customer while providing an excellent customer experience. This paper describes the data protection as a service joint solution and shows how we can work together to help you increase your revenue for higher profitability.

This white paper is one in a series about the NetApp® private cloud solution. For more information about NetApp overall private cloud architecture, see RA-0008: Microsoft Private Clouds and NetApp Reference Architecture.As cloud-style architecture is becoming increasingly common, IT organizations are seeking to offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS) within their organizations. This document provides a blueprint for private IaaS implementations on the Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and System Center platform. The intended audience for this document is customer and partner architects seeking to design private cloud implementations on NetApp platform.

With a shared IT infrastructure built on a NetApp storage foundation, Be The Match is leveraging technology to give patients a second chance at life. The efficiency and flexibility of their NetApp infrastructure allows them to process more data faster, which leads to more transplants and saves more lives. Their NetApp based private cloud enables them to share lifesaving resources and capabilities with partner affiliates around the world.

Desktop virtualization is a hot topic throughout the virtualization industry. Organizations view desktop virtualization as a way to control costs and use limited resources to manage large-scale desktop infrastructures while increasing security and deployment efficiency. NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse joined forces to create an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware® View™ architecture. This project demonstrates the most reliable methods for deploying a scalable and easily expandable environment from 5,000 to 50,000 seats in an efficient manner.

Thomson Reuters used a NetApp storage foundation to reinvent their approach to product development and fundamentally change the game of legal research. Their shared IT infrastructure and private cloud architecture had a direct impact on business success, enabling them to shrink IT spend and deliver services that are changing the way law firms do business.

Learn how to integrate best in class servers, storage and network products from Fujitsu, NetApp, and Brocade when building a Dynamic Cloud Environment for virtualized cloud-ready environments.

A 2011 Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper Commissioned By NetApp.In this study Forrester found that enterprises often underspend on IT flexibility, hampering the ability of their organizations to adapt, deliver new products to the marketplace, and generate revenue.

Self-service is an advanced element of private cloud environments that improves management efficiency and business agility and lowers operating expenses. A self-service environment streamlines the interaction between users and the IT department within an enterprise. It empowers internal consumers of IT services to request and receive appropriately configured IT resources on demand, with minimal IT intervention. NetApp® open APIs and key ecosystem partnerships enable enterprises to easily integrate their orchestration solutions and custom management tools with our storage service catalog for automated storage provisioning and protection capabilities as well as metrics for showback and chargeback. Customers can thereby create a self-service Web-based portal that efficiently delivers IT as a service to virtualization and application administrators and end users while enabling IT staff to focus on higher value activities