NetApp has added new technologies within NetApp OnCommand management software that the company says control, automate, and analyse the shared storage infrastructure for greater optimisation and service efficiency.
NetApp said its new OnCommand management software delivers four fundamental elements that compose a cloud – service catalog, service analytics, automation, and self-service.
The new NetApp OnCommand unified manager enables the creation of a storage service catalog and provides policy-based automation, including provisioning, data protection, and service monitoring.
For storage and the rest of the infrastructure, new NetApp OnCommand Insight provides the service analytics that enables customers to have the visibility and knowledge needed to optimise a cloud service delivery.
The service analytics includes usage-based metering, service-level monitoring, and performance and capacity modeling and planning.
With the NetApp Unified Storage Architecture and a comprehensive set of storage and data management capabilities built on Data ONTAP, NetApp provides the Storage foundation for cloud.
NetApp’s shared IT infrastructure provides a secure, multi-tenant offering that can dynamically scale up or back down to meet changing demand, enabling enterprise customers to transition to a private cloud environment at their own pace, without disrupting their IT infrastructure.
In addition, the software company has enhanced its Alliance Technology Partner Program with the inclusion of cloud management leaders, including BMC, CA, Fujitsu, Microsoft, newScale, Tivoli, and VMware.
The company claims that the program enables integration between industry-leading cloud management offerings and NetApp OnCommand to provide end-to-end management of the full-stack cloud infrastructure.
The program aims to broaden and leverage NetApp’s diverse pathways to reach customers and has helped provide cloud services built on NetApp to over one billion end users.
