London, UK - January 18,
2012 - Organisations worldwide are turning to cloud
services to gain efficiencies and respond faster to today's rapidly
changing business demands. Service providers play a critical role
in bringing cloud services to market and helping customers make
strategic infrastructure decisions. Together, NetApp and its
service provider partners have achieved proven success as trusted
advisors to these customers. By collaborating with NetApp and its
partners, customers are achieving accelerated business results with
cloud solutions ranging from on-premise private cloud solutions to
off-premise public cloud services.
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that
customers are reducing costs, managing business growth, and
improving customer service with cloud services built on
NetApp® technologies. These cloud services are delivered
through a global ecosystem of service providers who benefit from
the
NetApp Partner Program for Service Providers, which was
the first of its kind in the storage industry. Over the past
six months, this global partner ecosystem has nearly doubled in
size with the addition of more than 20 new partners; today it
includes more than 50 service providers. In partnership with
NetApp, these service providers deliver more than 90 innovative
services that help customers accelerate and simplify their
transition to private and public clouds.
"NetApp's success in establishing a strong
partner ecosystem has enabled many of our enterprise and midsize
business customers to achieve greater value, speed, and efficiency
by leveraging cloud services offered by partners participating in
the NetApp Partner Program for Service Providers," said Julie
Parrish, senior vice president, Global Partner Sales at NetApp.
"NetApp is focused on collaborating with partners - not competing
with them - to help them increase their revenue, grow their
businesses, and help customers succeed in capitalising on the
opportunities that adoption of public and private cloud solutions
offer."
Customers Accelerate Business with
Cloud Services from NetApp Service Provider Partners
World-class service providers are collaborating with NetApp as
their partner of choice to build, deploy, and sell differentiated
cloud service offerings that help customers improve business
outcomes.
BayGroup International Reduces Costs
with Cloud Services from Quest
- BayGroup, a global negotiation and training company, reduced
their IT spend up to 60% by storing all of their data and
applications in a virtualised cloud environment. By using data
protection as a -service from Quest, they've shifted 80% of
their spending to operating expenses and now need fewer people to
manage local services such as data storage, backup, recovery, and
day-to-day maintenance.
- "Using Quest's cloud service built on NetApp technologies, our
savings have been tremendous," said Frank Lucido, director of
information technology at BayGroup International. "Quest's services
are so proactive that we've liberated a full-time employee to focus
instead on our core business-critical needs. Without Quest's cloud
services, BayGroup would need two additional full-time
employees."
BlackLine Systems Manages Business
Growth with Cloud Services from Rackspace
- BlackLine Systems provides a software as a service (SaaS)
solution, which automates and controls the financial close process
for Fortune 1000 companies. Their biggest challenge was scaling to
meet the demands of an installed base that was growing at more than
100%, so they outsourced their IT infrastructure, using a
Rackspace cloud service to rapidly expand their business
without investing in their own IT infrastructure. The Rackspace
hybrid cloud solution provided the enhanced security capabilities
to overcome concerns with moving sensitive data outside their
corporate firewalls.
- "Rackspace and NetApp know that in the SaaS world, you're only
in business if your application is up and running," said Mario
Spanicciati, executive vice president of operations, BlackLine
Systems. "We selected Rackspace as our cloud service provider for
the company's winning combination of premier hosting infrastructure
and services coupled with an always-available and knowledgeable
customer service organisation - along with the confidence of
knowing it's all backed by a solid NetApp storage foundation. By
working with Rackspace and NetApp, BlackLine is able to provide
clients with a reliable, secure, high-performance enterprise-class
SaaS application. This solution enabled BlackLine to grow and focus
on the areas that were important to us, taking our business further
and faster than we could have done on our own."
Loughborough University Accelerates
Research Discovery with Cloud Services from Logicalis
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Loughborough University upgraded its data center to improve IT
efficiency and support to its extensive community of academic
researchers. The university turned to Logicalis to consolidate
their existing data center, creating a local private cloud
integrated with the Logicalis hosted cloud for data protection. One
of first hybrid cloud environments in the UK, this innovative
solution enables the university to free up resources to focus more
on its core educational mission and produce more research in less
time.
- "With our hybrid cloud solution from Logicalis based on NetApp
technologies, we reduced our data center footprint by 80%," said
Phil Richards, IT director of Loughborough University. "Power,
cooling, and administrative expenses have been equivalently
reduced, and we have increased the speed with which we serve the
university community. With our old data center infrastructure,
procuring IT support for new research projects took weeks. Our
cloud now enables IT to act as a research accelerator. Faculty now
receive IT infrastructure on demand, and this is making a major
impact on time to discovery across the university."
Reinier de Graaf Groep Improves
Patient Services with Cloud Services from Proact
- The
Reinier de Graaf Groep in Delft is the oldest general hospital
in the Netherlands. To improve the services that the hospital
provides to patients and staff, the Reinier de Graaf Groep has
undertaken a comprehensive digitisation of its patient files,
laboratory reports, and X-rays. In order to realise optimal data
availability, a low operating load, predictable costs, and flexible
storage and server capacity on a pay-per-use basis, Reinier de
Graaf Groep selected infrastructure as a service (IaaS) from Proact
Managed Cloud Services, based on the NetApp FlexPod™ data
center solution.
- "By selecting Proact infrastructure as a service, the Reinier
de Graaf Groep is assured of the continuous availability of its
data, both internally and on external workstations," said Marcel
Slingerland, manager, ICT Reinier de Graaf Groep. "For the ICT
department, this means that they don't have to worry about the
entire storage and server infrastructure and can focus on core
tasks that directly benefit business processes."
Village Roadshow Reduces Cost with
Cloud Services from Interactive
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Village Roadshow Limited, of Melbourne Australia, is a leading
international entertainment company with core businesses in theme
parks, cinema exhibition, film distribution, film production, and
music. Village Roadshow was quickly outgrowing its data center due
to increasing requirements for storage to support its ticketing,
Web sites, and distribution for film and DVD rental operations.
With an infrastructure as-a-service solution from Interactive,
Village Roadshow is managing its rapidly growing data volumes at a
lower cost than an on-premise alternative.
- "Opting for Interactive's managed cloud storage, based on
NetApp technologies, is a great stepping stone to a full cloud
computing solution and offers great cost savings to Village
Roadshow in comparison to the capital investments to build or
upgrade our own infrastructure," said David Kindlen, CIO of Village
Roadshow. "I look forward to further developing a relationship
where I can buy computing power and storage on demand from an
organisation I trust."
About the Program
- The NetApp Partner Program for Service Providers enables
service provider partners to build differentiated, enterprise-class
cloud service offerings and to operate profitably based on low-cost
and predictable service levels.
- NetApp welcomes the following new service provider partners,
who bring enhanced portfolios of services to our customers across
multiple geographies: AAPT, Adapt, Artisan Infrastructure, BSNL-Sai
Infosystems, ControlCircle, Datacom, dinCloud, Easy Street, Fujitsu
Asia, Fujitsu Thailand, Heitech Managed Services, IT-LifeLine,
K-Opti.com, KVH, NTT Europe, Phoenix NAP, Proact MCS,
StratITsphere, Stratogen, Nihon Unisys, NSSOL, NS Solutions, Telus,
Tokai Communication, Windstream, and Wipro.
Additional Resources
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business
breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our core values and
consistently being recognised as a great place to work around the
world are fundamental to our long-term growth and success, as well
as the success of our pathway partners and customers. Discover our
passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster
at www.netapp.com/uk/.
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treated as such. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership"
does not imply a legal partnership between NetApp and any other
company.
Addendum: Service Provider and
Partner Quote Sheet
NetApp works with many service providers, channel partners, and
systems integrators to deliver integrated and innovative solutions
that help customers accelerate their path to private and public
clouds. Here's what some of our newest service provider partners
are saying about working with NetApp.
Simon Fisk, sales and marketing
director, Adapt
"Our enterprise virtual data center offers custom cloud and managed
services that scale perfectly with business requirements, meaning
that our customers benefit from high performance with dual site
synchronous data replication - without the traditionally associated
management or financial burden. Our partnership with NetApp enables
us to leverage NetApp® MetroCluster™ technology to
deliver continuous availability and in-built disaster
recovery."
Carmen Carey, CEO,
ControlCircle
"Providing our customers with NetApp best-in-class solutions like
our Enterprise Cloud and Disaster Recovery services sets us apart
from other service providers. Winning Service Provider Partner of
the Year for UK and Ireland was a true highlight for us and
confirmation of the success of our partnership in bringing truly
innovative IT solutions such as ControlCircle Enterprise Cloud
Services. We look forward to building this out and providing vision
as well as value to our customers, who rely on us to scale with
certainty and give them a competitive edge when it comes to their
business-critical infrastructure."
Ali Din, chief marketing officer,
dinCloud
"Working with a tier one platform like
NetApp has enabled dinCloud to speed the time and simplify the
migration of customer data. Customers feel assured when they hear
that NetApp technologies are an integral part of the dinCloud
solution and that the two companies have worked closely to
establish the dinCloud architecture."
Philip Wong, head of ASEAN SAP
Competence Centre, Fujitsu Asia "The partnership with
NetApp has allowed Fujitsu to provide a comprehensive cloud service
to our customers. This has translated to significant cost savings
to our customers and higher operational efficiencies for our cloud
managed services. Our continued partnership with NetApp will allow
us to expand and bring more innovative lines of services to our
customers."
Simon Durkin, director of sales,
Interactive
"Interactive has made it a priority to provide world-class cloud
solutions by investing in the best local talent and utilizing
trusted partners, including NetApp. NetApp's efficiency
capabilities and integrated data protection enable us to offer
leading SLAs at a price point that is compelling for large
enterprise deployments. We are proud to be able to utilize this
suite of products to build on the portfolio of services that we
already provide to Village Roadshow and other enterprise
customers."
Ken Rubin, senior vice president and
general manager, Healthcare, Iron Mountain
"The
explosion of clinical, patient, and imaging data and shrinking
budgets have boxed many healthcare organizations into a corner,
straining their storage capacity and IT resources to the limit as
they struggle to manage the tidal wave of information. Iron
Mountain's medical image archiving offerings remove that burden by
delivering the best of all worlds: unlimited capacity on a
pay-as-you-go basis with improved off-site disaster recovery that
is more cost effective and less complicated than doing it yourself.
Our partnership with NetApp integrates their industry-leading
storage technology designed for archiving big data with enterprise
cloud storage services from Iron Mountain. This combination will
help customers manage the long-term retention of medical
information. As a NetApp Service Provider Partner, Iron Mountain is
working closely with NetApp on joint sales and marketing
initiatives that demonstrate the strength and value of our
solutions, enabling healthcare organizations to address their data
archiving and disaster recovery challenges."
Chris Gabriel, solutions and
marketing director, Logicalis UK
"Through its partnership with NetApp, Logicalis is able to offer
unique cloud storage solutions to its customers. For example, when
Loughborough University needed to upgrade its data center, the key
factor around storage was the multistore feature set and
standardized platforms. Logicalis was able to consolidate the
existing data center into two mini-pods, creating a local private
cloud, and then integrate this on-site storage environment directly
with the Logicalis hosted cloud. These innovative technologies and
solutions delivered one of the first hybrid cloud environments in
the UK. NetApp and Cisco have really come together and solidified
what Logicalis sees as a robust architecture for enterprise-class
private and hosted clouds. This hybrid model is now being
replicated not only across the education market but also across the
financial, retail, and manufacturing markets, because most
customers are facing the same problems."
Georg Fasching, vice president,
Products and Solutions, Luup
"When we were looking for a partner to design, build, host, and
manage the infrastructure that enables and delivers our managed
service, ControlCircle was the natural choice. By deploying their
disaster recovery as a service, we not only have a resilient
disaster recovery solution across different sites in Europe but we
have been able to leverage ControlCircle's cost efficiencies."
Len Padilla, senior director of
technology, NTT Europe
"NTT Europe is very focused on offering the best online business
and managed hosting services in the market. NetApp has been with us
on this journey for the last 10 years. With a market-leading
technology proposition and sound execution in the service provider
space, they enable us to drive business in key markets across EMEA.
We need as much flexibility as we can get in order to accelerate
go-to-market for new service offerings and to quickly react to
customer demand. NetApp delivers all the time in a challenging,
multicountry setup with tough requirements in terms of management,
availability, and recovery."
Rob Christ, vice president, Managed
Cloud Services, Proact
"The Proact MCS cloud offering is unique in its kind. Not only has
it been around for almost 10 years and has proven itself, it is
also the only true data and storage-centric cloud offering in the
European market. Because of the in-depth knowledge and experience
in the storage and data management market, Proact has the ability
to migrate their customers into the cloud at their own pace,
including the transactional production environments, while the
business continues."
Ian McClarty, president, Phoenix
NAP
"Phoenix NAP is proud to include NetApp technologies in our new
public cloud offering, Secured Cloud. By leveraging the storage
efficiencies of an industry leader like NetApp in our stack, we are
able to provide end users with an optimal solution for their
virtualization needs. The improved data portability and
high-performance storage that NetApp offers allow the rapid and
reliable scaling of cloud services as demands change, which is a
critical business driver for any cloud solution. We are happy to
have NetApp as a partner for our cloud infrastructure."
Matt Gerber, CEO,
IT-Lifeline
"IT-Lifeline offers fully managed, cloud-based recovery as a
service for physical and virtual environments specifically targeted
to small and midsize organizations. As a managed service provider,
we need technology that maximizes storage space to drive down costs
while securely handling complex data storage environments. NetApp
is a standout in the market. NetApp's storage framework allows a
truly secure multi-tenant environment, and thin provisioning allows
us to reduce our storage cost and pass the savings to our
customers. The flexible architecture supports the variety of
applications, operating systems, and changing requirements demanded
for disaster recovery. With NetApp, we eliminate the complexity of
disaster recovery in the cloud and are able to provide our services
at a lower cost."
Stephen Webster, president and CEO,
StratITsphere
"We use NetApp as a
key component in our new Nimbus package of cloud services. NetApp's
staff really understands the cloud and how to work with a service
provider. They gave us the flexibility, efficiency, and quality we
needed for our enterprise-class storage platform. Nimbus uses the
capabilities in NetApp Data ONTAP® to allow us to create
virtual data centers and offer cloud storage as a service for
clients to make their data and applications available anywhere in
the world. NetApp also provides part of the backbone for Nimbus
Mobility, which offers secure cloud computing on any mobile device,
and Nimbus Operations Services, which allows our engineers to
manage and monitor a client's virtual IT infrastructure."
Karl Robinson, sales director,
StratoGen
"VMware hosting services from StratoGen are engineered from the
ground up to be extremely dynamic and resilient, allowing our
clients to scale their resources instantly. We help organisations
to drive down their costs, react quickly to changing business
conditions, and provide simplified management of their resources.
Our partnership with NetApp has been hugely important as it enables
us to deliver a high-quality hosting platform that offers excellent
performance with built-in failover capability."
Tony Krueck, vice president, Business
Products and Services, TELUS
"TELUS offers a range of hosted and cloud IT services to the
Canadian business market. We are excited to leverage the latest
NetApp storage technologies, which will add significant value to
our IT solutions for organizations of all sizes. NetApp helps us
provide a multi-tier, multi-tenant, and multi-function managed
storage infrastructure that enables our team to deliver on
virtually any customer storage requirement, using a single
architecture. The flexibility of the NetApp architecture and
reliability of NetApp software allow TELUS to minimize solution
complexity and improve solution repeatability, enabling us to
deliver more high-value services to our customers. These include
advanced options such as integrated data protection for disaster
recovery and backup, as well as storage efficiency features that
help our customers save money. Our growing relationship as a NetApp
Platinum Service Provider and reseller enables close collaboration
with NetApp technical and account teams to drive quality and value
to our mutual clients."