NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights on Azure Marketplace

As businesses navigate the complexities of the hybrid cloud journey, having robust data infrastructure insights is crucial for optimizing performance, ensuring security, and maximizing cost efficiency. For this reason, we’re pleased to announce that NetApp^® Data Infrastructure Insights (formerly Cloud Insights) is now available through the Azure Marketplace, providing customers planning an Azure migration with streamlined infrastructure observability, automation, and real-time telemetry data. Additionally, if you have a Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) to decrement, Data Infrastructure Insights transactions through the Azure Marketplace now count toward your Azure consumption commitment, opening up a wide range of options for your organization to maximize its budget and earn future discounts on Azure infrastructure.

As cloud utilization increases, so does the need for visibility across the vast IT landscape. However, recent surveys show that cloud migrations are fraught with challenges. According to the 2024 Flexera State of the Cloud Report, over half of respondents reported that understanding app dependencies, assessing on-premises versus cloud costs, and assessing technical feasibility were their top three cloud migration challenges.

To effectively plan and execute a successful Azure cloud migration, organizations must have a clear understanding of the dependencies between their applications and infrastructure components. They must identify interconnections and data flows, consider any hardware interdependencies or required software configurations, and understand compute utilization patterns so that workloads can be rightsized before migration.

An effective infrastructure observability solution provides businesses with a comprehensive view of their existing infrastructure, including on-premises and cloud environments, enabling them to understand their infrastructure’s current state and identify areas that need optimization or adjustment.

Among its many use cases, NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights is instrumental for planning, tracking, and operating the migration of workloads to the cloud.

Deployed and managed as native software as a service (SaaS) within Azure, NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights provides real-time data visualization of your data infrastructure’s topology, performance, utilization, and availability, with complete end-to-end observability. Because Data Infrastructure Insights offers a global, unified view across all major on-premises and cloud infrastructure vendors and data locations, ITOps stakeholders get consistent observability across every stage of the migration process, from initial assessment to maintaining continuous optimization.

• Optimize before migration. In the initial stages of your hybrid cloud journey, it’s essential to evaluate your current infrastructure and plan the transition effectively. Data Infrastructure Insights offers detailed analytics and reporting tools that provide transparent visibility into critical factors such as response times, throughput and scalability needs, performance bottlenecks, resource inefficiencies, and capacity restraints so that your applications and workloads will operate efficiently in your Azure environment.

  With intelligent recommendations, you can identify areas of waste and make the necessary changes to eliminate them. This step is critical to optimizing performance and offsetting future costs before migrating to the cloud. Because environments aren’t static, Data Infrastructure Insights will continue to monitor and make optimization recommendations for both on-premises and cloud environments after migration.

• Migrate. During the migration phase, moving workloads and data to the cloud seamlessly and securely is paramount. Teams must be able to continuously monitor the source and destination environments as data migrates. Visibility into data flows, application dependencies, and resource use helps teams identify potential bottlenecks, data inconsistencies, and performance issues that could affect migration results.

  Data Infrastructure Insights uses a common data model across all platforms, which eliminates the need for manual data normalization. This approach makes it easy to compare metrics, so you can get a common picture for each stage of the migration and ensure that migrated workloads function as expected. This simultaneous monitoring of the source and the destination helps reduce risk and identify any issues before they escalate into critical problems.

• Manage. After workloads move to the cloud, you need to continue optimizing and managing to maintain cost efficiency and performance. Data Infrastructure Insights provides real-time monitoring and optimization features that help manage resources effectively. Topology views allow you to easily see the connections across your environment, and customizable alerts reduce noise and make sure you’re spending your time on things that truly matter. All of this enables you to detect and respond to issues more quickly. Data Infrastructure Insights also automates manual tasks, such as tracking resource use and generating reports, so teams can focus on key initiatives rather than routine maintenance. With continual monitoring after moving to the cloud, you can ensure that each workload operates cost effectively while still meeting your organization’s needs.
  
  
• Operate and scale. After you’ve migrated to Azure, Data Infrastructure Insights continues to deliver advanced analytics and AIOps capabilities that automatically highlight performance anomalies and correlate them with infrastructure changes. Predictive analytics provide insights into capacity trends, so teams can plan for future storage needs and avoid major issues. This proactive approach reduces downtime and enhances cross-silo collaboration, ultimately improving overall operational efficiency and workload performance as you scale.

With more than 5 million VMs under management and about 9000PB of heterogeneous storage discovered, NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights is trusted by 80% of Fortune 500 companies to address the complexities of their modern infrastructure. From the public cloud (or multiple clouds) to the data center, Data Infrastructure Insights provides visibility into infrastructure and applications from hundreds of global collectors—all in one place. And it’s easy to set up and even easier to use.

Ready to experience NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights in action and discover the power of unified infrastructure observability? Request your personalized demo today, or find us on Azure Marketplace.