NetApp introduced Tuesday that its on-premises and cloud storage choices at the moment are unified underneath the umbrella of a single platform, known as BlueXP, which serves as a management airplane for every of its merchandise and simplifies the administration of enterprise storage for organizations.
BlueXP—which is a free improve for its prospects—is a response to the truth that increasingly more corporations’ storage environments are hybrids today, combining cloud and on-premises storage, in line with NetApp. Companies of just about any measurement which were in operation for greater than a decade or so are, most of the time, concerned in digital transformation efforts that transfer at varied paces, mentioned firm senior vice chairman and normal supervisor for cloud storage Ronen Schwartz.
“With growing funding within the cloud … most [busineses] are counting on distributors just like the hyperscalers, and in terms of storage they’re counting on NetApp [products] which can be each on-prem and within the cloud,” he mentioned. “So knowledge is rising, and never simply on-prem.”
BlueXp affords a single administration system for all storage
The concept behind BlueXP is to let end-users have a single administration system for his or her whole “knowledge property,” whether or not it’s public cloud storage, disks in an information heart, or something in between. That is theoretically a useful simplification for IT groups tasked with managing complicated storage infrastructure, and may even provide extra advantages moreover, in line with IDC analysis director for cloud knowledge administration Archana Venkatraman.
“BlueXP goes past simply unifying the disparate knowledge companies,” she mentioned. “It feeds into the widespread APIs layer and interacts with adjoining NetApp [products] such because the acquired Spot portfolio geared toward cloud-native app environments.”
Certainly, the extent of API sophistication is probably the most spectacular a part of BlueXP, Venkatraman mentioned, and demonstrates a excessive degree of architectural maturity on NetApp’s half. That’s notably useful for bigger corporations, who usually tend to have correspondingly extra complicated storage environments.
“[BlueXP] would even be an entry ramp to the cloud for big organizations which can be decrease on cloud adoption maturity,” she mentioned. “In areas similar to Europe, there are a lot of organizations who’re nonetheless within the early phases of cloud adoption and may profit from this unified strategy.
BlueXP is now obtainable to all NetApp prospects, and ships with an offline mode, in order that corporations—for architectural or regulatory causes—with a have to hold their storage disconnected from the web at massive can use it independently.
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