BlueXP - unified, simple, integrated, and secure: Your management solution

The NetApp^® BlueXP™ solution gives you unified control of storage and services wherever your data lives, with the operational simplicity that you need to support your intelligent data infrastructure. At NetApp, we constantly deliver innovative technology to help you overcome your critical pain points. With continually enhanced offerings, BlueXP aims to meet your evolving requirements and provide you with advanced solutions to streamline your operations.  

And those improvements are based on your feedback. You have spoken, and we have listened. We are happy to announce the following enhancements, integrations, and new services, along with the benefits they bring, to further solidify BlueXP as your unified management solution. 

When it comes to safeguarding your most valuable asset—data—access control plays a vital role. It involves management of resources and users by assigning them to specific projects, while ensuring appropriate access privileges for some and restricting access to others.

As a part of the enhancements, we have strengthened the advanced tenancy models, granular resource hierarchy control, fine-grain access control, and centralized user identity and access management (IAM) in BlueXP. 

The BlueXP advanced tenancy model helps you organize your resources effectively. With granular resource hierarchy control, you can assign resources to specific projects and folders, maintaining a structured and organized approach to resource management. This feature enhances your visibility and control over your intelligent data infrastructure, improving your system’s efficiency and resource allocation. 

Furthermore, the intuitive graphical management interface enhances your user experience, making it easier to navigate and to manage resources. Its streamlined workflow empowers you to perform tasks efficiently, saving time and reducing the learning curve that’s associated with complex tenancy, resource hierarchy, project, and role-based access control (RBAC) management.

Managing an entire data estate through multiple toolsets and resources often leads to increased IT resource expenditures, higher risks, and added complexity. BlueXP continues to be the solution to meet these top challenges. And now, with the integration of Grid Manager, BlueXP provides advanced management capabilities for your NetApp StorageGRID^® infrastructure. 

This integration enables you to easily monitor StorageGRID capacity, performance, nodes, and alerts. You can view and control tenants, information lifecycle management (ILM), and system and security settings, all through one unified console.

Additional integrations include components of NetApp Harvest, Active IQ Unified Manager, and ONTAP^® Essentials into the BlueXP alerting service, which provides real-time alerts on ONTAP systems with prescriptive corrective actions.  

As easy as it is to update ONTAP systems, a centralized method to update your entire fleet can save you serious time. We are proud to introduce BlueXP software updates, which uses artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) to streamline ONTAP upgrades. 

This new service identifies clusters that are candidates for an upgrade and gives you a consolidated report with options, benefits, and recommendations. After you have chosen the best option for your needs, automatic hardware and software compatibility prechecks are performed to reduce risk and to prevent blockers. From there, ONTAP System Manager is launched, and the update is executed. By automating workflows and simplifying complex tasks, the BlueXP software updates service reduces upgrade complexity, minimizes risks, and saves time.  

These continual improvements, additional integrations, and new services within BlueXP further solidify our commitment to addressing what matters most to you—providing innovative solutions that overcome your biggest challenges. The enhanced tenancy, IAM, RBAC, and security features offer more granular control and improved security measures. The integration of Grid Manager enables unified control and advanced management capabilities for StorageGRID infrastructure. And the new BlueXP software updates service streamlines the ONTAP upgrade process, simplifying tasks and reducing overall complexity. With these advancements, BlueXP continues to empower you with efficient, secure, and user-friendly solutions for your intelligent data infrastructure. 

Learn more about BlueXP and its services at NetApp.com/BlueXP and BlueXP.NetApp.com. Don’t forget to check out the demonstrations where you can try it for yourself.