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Storage as a Service with NetApp Keystone

Only one storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering in the market delivers a true hybrid cloud experience with a common, multi-protocol storage OS across on-prem and public cloud, all via a single subscription: NetApp Keystone.

The only true hybrid cloud STaaS

Speed time to value with unmatched agility and flexibility

Seize your advantage with Keystone’s pay-as-you-go, hybrid cloud storage services. Power all your block, file, and object workloads wherever you want them — on-prem, in colos, and natively in all three major public clouds. Accelerate and optimize your IT with the industry-leading performance, resiliency, and seamless hybrid data mobility of NetApp intelligent data infrastructure.

Unlock unprecedented flexibility

Align IT costs with business usage via pay-as-you-go storage. Optimize spend with the broadest range of scalable performance tiers and flexible 1-5 year terms. Save up to 50% via automated data tiering, adjust capacity or shift to the cloud by up to 25% annually, and burst to the cloud at no extra cost.

Simplify storage management

A single service supports both block and file on a unified platform.

Architect forward with real hybrid multicloud connectivity

As-a-service everywhere―monitor and orchestrate your hybrid data environment with a single pane of glass. You choose how, where, and when to use data services: on premises and in the cloud.

Cloud ready from the start

Bridge to the cloud with the ability to move to any major public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), seamlessly.

Quickly accommodate new workloads

No need to modify your entire infrastructure.

Respond faster to business changes

Move data, automatically, wherever you need it.

Stop paying for high-performance storage you don’t need

Save over 50% of capacity cost by automatically offloading unused cold data into cost-efficient cloud storage.

Burst storage on demand

No hidden costs for bursting to the cloud, and no premium charges for data changes.

Lower your rates

Flexible multi-year contracts enable you to reduce capacity or shift to the cloud by 25% annually.

Pay only for what you need

Align costs with usage by matching workloads to the broadest range of performance tiers available.

Keystone STaaS

delivers the right operating model for cloud flexibility

NetApp is a Leader (Again!)

The 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage Platforms marks our 12th consecutive year as a Leader. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms, Jeff Vogel, Chandra Mukhyala, September 18, 2024.
A Leader in Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms (2024) 
A 5-year Leader in Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage (2019-2023) 
A 3-year Leader in Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays (2016-2018) 
A 6-year Leader in Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays (2013-2018) 

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Flexible Hybrid Cloud StaaS with NetApp Keystone

Scale easily without hardware costs

Pay only for the performance used

Seamlessly bridge to any major cloud provider

Monitor and orchestrate hybrid cloud data via BlueXP

Services Catalog

Keystone STaaS offerings are optimized for performance outcomes and costs for unified file and block, object storage, and cloud data services. It’s time to sink into simplicity and dive into innovation. Experience the ultimate on premises and cloud connector that delivers agility, operational flexibility, and reduced financial risk.

File and block – NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, and FC protocols

Tiers Extreme Premium Performance Standard Value
Best for Analytics, databases VDI, virtualized apps, sw dev OLTP, OLAP, VDI, containers, sw dev File shares, web servers Backup
Max IOPS/TiBMay vary depending on the workload characteristics.
(effective capacity)
12,288 4096 2048 512 128
Max throughput MBps/TiB[2] 384 128 64 16 4
Latency < 1 ms < 2 ms < 4 ms < 4 ms < 17 ms
Minimum commitmentMinimum and incremental capacity sizes. 25 TiB 25 TiB 25 TiB 100 TiB 100 TiB
Starting MSRPMSRP based on usable capacity that is measured against subscribed committed capacity, 3-year term, and customer-operated. No add-ons are included. per GiB/month $0.250 $0.171 $0.085 $0.043 $0.021

Object – S3 protocol

Tiers Standard
Best for Media repository, data lakes, archive
Max IOPS/TiB[2] (effective capacity) N/A
Max throughput MBps/TiB[2] N/A
Latency N/A
Minimum commitment[3] 500 TiB
Starting MSRP[4] per GiB/month $0.026

Cloud Services (S3) and Cloud Volumes ONTAP (NFS, CIFS & iSCSI)

Tiers Blue XPNetApp Blue XP and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP are dependent on the cloud storage and compute characteristics. Cloud-native services like compute, storage, and networking will be invoiced by the cloud service providers.
(all cloud)
Cloud Volumes ONTAP®
(all cloud)
Best for Backup DR, dev/test, business apps
Max IOPS/TiB[2] (effective capacity) N/A N/A
Max throughput MBps/TiB[2] N/A N/A
Latency N/A N/A
Minimum commitment[3] 4 TiB 4 TiB
Starting MSRP[4] per TiB/month $0.045 $0.094

Value-added solutions

Keystone provides the building block to design, build, and integrate our STaaS offering into other technologies and services, delivering value-added solutions through NetApp and our certified partners.

Do full-stack hybrid cloud on your terms

Enjoy the advantages of industry-leading NetApp Flash Storage fully interconnected with Equinix Bare Metal for secure hybrid cloud storage services that can be consumed as part of a full-stack (compute, networking, and storage) solution under a single subscription.

Partner-delivered FlexPod as a Service

Procure a full-stack infrastructure as a service (IaaS), powered by Keystone and Cisco+ from a FlexPod®-certified partner. This simplifies the IT operational experience and unifies subscription, billing, contracts, and support for your hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Easy as 1-2-3

Getting started with NetApp Keystone STaaS is easy. First, determine which workloads are best for a storage-as-a-service model. Next, select your performance levels, capacities, and add-on data services. And finally, choose your terms. Our team of specialists will take care of the design, build, and deploy, and have you up and running in as little as two weeks.

Build your Keystone roadmap for success

Start by identifying those use cases that will benefit from a storage-as-a-service offering. Need help planning your roadmap? Explore our portfolio of Professional Services for Hybrid Multicloud, and one of our specialists will help guide your success.

Team planning and building their roadmap

Hop on the Keystone train

With a solid plan in place, it’s time to subscribe to Keystone. Select your performance service levels and committed capacities, add-ons like advanced data protection and data tiering services, contract terms, and who will operate the environment—you, a certified partner, or us. NetApp offers a fully managed service for an additional monthly fee. Need help determining storage requirements for your various workloads? Request a Workload Analysis for Keystone workshop.

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Lean on our expertise

Our team of NetApp specialists is here to provide design, build, installation, configuration, deployment, and onboarding services according to your contract terms. And we can migrate your data onto Keystone and put it on the same bill. We won’t leave until you're happy.

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