| | October 20158CIOReviewopinionin myCustomers tell me they're grappling with the next wave of infrastructure consolidation. At the same time, they want to match the flexibility of the cloud and ensure they protect their precious data. In short, they're under the gun to deliver more strategic IT value while minimizing capex and opex. It's an interesting tension. For some, a scary one.The good news is we have an answer. The NetApp visions of a Data Fabric can help enterprises address these challenges through low-barrier-to-entry starter kits. We call them Data Fabric Solution Essentials:· OpenStack Solution Kit: Get up and running on an OpenStack private cloud in days, not months, with known costs and without the design and implementation risk.· Application Acceleration Solution Kit: Accelerate application lifecycle from development to production by adding non-disruptive optimization and access to elastic compute for DBs.· Snap-to-Cloud DR Solution Kit: A single replication solution for disaster recovery, business intelligence, data distribution and dev/test.Infrastructure Consolidation and the Cloud The expansion in discrete storage products and architectures has proliferated beyond the ability of many customers to manage the resulting complexity. I am seeing customers facing stress over how they will consolidate data centers, manage across a larger pool of storage resources and drive more IT projects with the same or fewer IT staff. We are now entering an era of consolidation where value is shifting to data management.NetApp's flash-to-disk-to-cloud capability gives these companies a great place to start. To clarify, flash-to-disk-to-cloud doesn't mean going sequentially from flash to disk to cloud. Rather, it refers to the ability to move, manage and protect your data across flash, disk and cloud resources using a single UI. The Data Fabric is what knits it all together. The flexibility enabled by flash-to-disk-to-cloud is fantastic. Applications may be born in the cloud, for example, run on flash in production, backed up to disk and archived back to the cloud.Try it out with our new Application Acceleration Solution Kit for database applications, which is ideal for deploying a small four-node flash and disk cluster that runs Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle databases. You'll quickly see how we help you address the key challenges of needing high, consistent performance with no data loss and with comprehensive data management while effectively leveraging the cloud.Match the Flexibility of the CloudMany enterprises are captivated with the services model of the cloud. They are fascinated with the software-defined-everything model where services are consumed on demand and managed centrally. They want software-defined--storage, networking, and computation so that infrastructure can be delivered on demand and managed by service levels.The economics of the public cloud are challenging, however, for customers with Do Cloud Your Way with New NetApp Data Fabric SolutionsBy Lee Caswell, Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing, NetAppLee Caswell
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