They don’t just give out badges. They give out “Customer Experience Partner of the Year Award” badges. It’s probably boorish to toot your own badge but this one is important because it symbolizes the strength and success of the Microsoft-NetApp partnership. And that success comes from our customers. Whether it’s ROI, ease of implementation or the profound benefits of their cloud journey, we are honored to have helped along the way. So, yes, we will take this badge and wear it proudly.

Microsoft and NetApp are celebrating a partnership of nearly two decades spent delivering innovative products that help organizations manage their data, in the data center and in the cloud.

That relationship has culminated in Azure NetApp Files, a jointly engineered service that empowers organizations to fulfill their massive cloud mandates.

If you want to run SAP HANA in the Azure cloud, and you want to use a certified shared file service, your best and only choice is Azure NetApp Files. That means you won’t have to compromise security or performance when moving SAP to Azure.

Unprotected data is a disaster waiting to happen. And traditional data protection approaches aren’t keeping pace with IT complexity and growing threats. With NetApp, you can be confident that your data is secure in the cloud without sacrificing application performance. Plan backups and disaster recovery. Increase privacy and compliance. Prevent ransomware. Stay ahead of all the emerging threats. Smart, right?