Harnessing AIOps to deliver cloudlike experiences with NetApp Keystone storage as a service

What if you could consume your on-premises storage like it’s in the cloud? You could pick the service level you want, choose how much space you need, and get a standardized cost for consuming it. Instead of an unwieldy capital expense, you could buy your on-premises storage with a cloudlike monthly payment instead of a large upfront cost.

With NetApp Keystone^® storage as a service (STaaS), it’s not a question of “what if,” but “why not.” Keystone STaaS gives you the freedom to pay for only the performance and capacity you need, when you need it, with the flexibility to scale those requirements up or down at any time. You can also move your workloads and apps across cloud and on-premises environments without worrying about increased administration or management heartache.

To enable this sophisticated data management, Keystone STaaS employs a robust suite of capabilities that are built around AIOps. Let’s dive into the central role that AIOps plays in enabling Keystone STaaS to deliver a cloudlike experience on your premises.

Gartner defines AIOps as a platform that “enables decision-making across design, deploy, execute, and operate activities by automating contextualization of large, varied volumes of operational data.” Admittedly, that’s a bit of a mouthful, but here’s what it means in the context of Keystone STaaS: AIOps gives you the ability to observe data trends, make decisions about automation and risk analysis, and deliver valuable insights and alerts.

Keystone STaaS leverages AIOps to deliver outcome-based flexibility. You can monitor the performance levels of the services that you’re consuming with predictable cost structures that align with your shifting business needs.

NetApp^® BlueXP^™ digital advisor, built on NetApp Active IQ^® Digital Advisor, has a dashboard to manage, monitor, and report on Keystone. It offers a high-level overview of capacity usage and subscriptions so that you can see immediately which areas are performing at, above, or below their expected rates. Keystone STaaS uses historical analytics to make sure that your consumption is predictable and in line with existing commitments. That means you’re less likely to overspend, and you can make changes on the fly to accommodate shifting business demands.

Keystone STaaS leverages built-in data protection capabilities with guaranteed recovery by using the NetApp Snap portfolio and Automated Ransomware Protection (ARP) technology.

Using AIOps features like risk analysis, anomaly detection, and task automation, Keystone STaaS gives you peace of mind that your data is protected and secure no matter where it lives. Just turn it on, and ARP automatically protects your data from known current and future ransomware attack vectors.

Keystone STaaS also incorporates new AIOps capabilities in our Data Infrastructure Insights solution (formerly Cloud Insights). This storage-aligned metering feature helps detect anomalies from any metric on any device, enabling you to understand cause and effect with infrastructure change analysis and correlation.

To get the most out of your data while streamlining your storage costs, it’s important to have a unified view of your subscriptions all in one place, with insights you can use to make sure that your data is where it needs to be, when it needs to be there. Keystone STaaS leverages AIOps to deliver alerts and automated insights with the digital advisor solution. You can create watchlists to monitor multiple subscriptions at once, and service providers can use the digital advisor to create watchlists for multiple customers at once.

This self-service dashboard comes with complete asset management as well as a 24/7 helpline so you can be sure that your services are always available. You can see which subscriptions are over- or under-committed, and which subscriptions are coming up for renewal.