NetApp Puts DevOps in the Driver’s Seat to Innovate and Win

Data-driven DevOps makes it faster and easier to accelerate new
business opportunities:

• Efficient self-service resources for improved infrastructure
  utilization and flexibility
• Faster development cycles with advanced data services — spend more
  time developing and less time managing services
• Let developers take charge of infrastructure requirements, while
  operations still maintain operational visibility

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), the data authority for hybrid cloud, today
announced updates to Trident, its automated provisioner solving the
persistent storage challenge for containers, a new verified architecture
for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on NetApp HCI, as well as
enhanced flexibility for DevOps on both NetApp® Cloud Volumes for Google
Cloud Platform and NetApp Cloud Volumes for AWS.

Today’s announcement follows NetApp’s recent acquisition of
StackPointCloud, an advanced Kubernetes-as-a-service platform that
directly supports the application orchestration capabilities across
clouds. Following the acquisition, NetApp launched the NetApp
Kubernetes Service, a Universal Control Plane for Managed
Kubernetes, which dramatically simplifies the deployment of a Kubernetes
cluster to the cloud. NetApp also recently announced new Ansible modules
for Element®, which provide integration for NetApp HCI and SolidFire®
solutions; ONTAP®, which provides integrated solutions for NetApp AFF
and FAS systems; and SANtricity®, which provides integrated solutions
for NetApp E-Series systems. This new capability enables customers to
use familiar tools to define and deploy consistent infrastructure for
development, test, and production.

In-house developer teams play an important role in the ability of a
business to pursue new revenue streams, but the long-standing cultural
divide between development and operations has traditionally inhibited
collaboration and led to slow development cycles. By creating data
services that help build trust between developers and operations, NetApp
aims to provide the tools that, together with DevOps techniques and
methods, enable companies to transform this paradigm.

“Delivering business value from data often depends on developers’
ability to rapidly innovate through methods like DevOps, but
organizations often lack the infrastructure to support the flexible,
collaborative approach required for a true DevOps culture,” said Brad
Anderson, SVP and GM, Cloud Infrastructure at NetApp. “NetApp provides
data products and services that are purpose-built to help developers and
operations better align, while also enabling the technology independence
that developers need to keep creating and driving value and strategic
advantage for the business.”

Build Clouds to Deliver New Services and Empower DevOps

Trident, the NetApp automated storage provisioner for Docker,
Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, now supports
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP; supports backup and restore using NetApp
Snapshot™ copies; and offers multicloud support. Available for download
from thePub.

Trident:

• Supports the full NetApp portfolio: NetApp HCI, ONTAP, SolidFire,
  NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and more.
• Offers the broadest and most extensive production support for
  persistence on container platforms available today, enabling
  self-service storage and data management through the native language
  of the container.
• Drives efficiency by simplifying and automating persistent container
  storage, removing the need for manual tickets for provisioning.
• Enables agile dev-test-deployment processes, reducing human
  interaction in the development-test-release process and increasing
  code quality and customer satisfaction.
• Improves data consistency and security with scalable container
  management solutions.
• Constantly growing and improving; as an open-source project,
  developers are constantly improving Trident with new capabilities.

Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on NetApp HCI Verified
Architecture enables DevOps to manage containers in the private cloud by:

• Delivering applications more quickly through accelerated application
  building, deployment and management.
• Empowering DevOps with self-service that helps to provide an “it just
  works” experience, making it easier for teams to build, deploy and
  scale applications with containers and a simpler hybrid cloud
  infrastructure.
• Simplifying and automating operations to more quickly and easily
  deliver a cloud application platform while helping to limit the time
  or complexity associated with designing a custom platform.

Inspire Innovation with the Cloud for DevOps

NetApp Cloud Volumes Service offers cloud-native file storage that
delivers extreme performance and advanced data management to cloud
applications.

NetApp Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform is a no-ops service with
a truly native experience, including support from Google, Google Cloud
UI for provisioning and management, and three performance levels,
Standard, Premium, and Extreme. It provides both NFS and SMB protocol
services to support a full range of what GCP customers demand for their
workloads.

NetApp Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform:

• Make data-driven decisions faster by moving analytics to the cloud.
• Safeguard databases in high-performance file services in the cloud to
  allow high-speed testing and iteration across applications and
  workloads, with the ability to quickly revert to the original database
  if anything goes wrong.
• Speed time to value with fast file copies, enabling developers to
  clone hundreds of environments, saving testing and QA time.
• Now accepting production-level data on the Cloud Volumes for Google
  Cloud Platform, in addition to expanded availability for US-Central1
  and US-East4.

NetApp Cloud Volumes for AWS provides secure and proven NFS and SMB data
management services for AWS. Cloud Volumes for AWS is available today
from NetApp and NetApp partners soon to be listed on AWS Marketplace and
with expanded availability to international markets.

NetApp Cloud Volumes for AWS:

• Enhanced flexibility for DevOps with REST API support and preview for
  Cloud Backup service.
• Delivers advanced, enterprise-class services to cloud applications,
  allowing workloads to run in the cloud with extreme speed and
  predictability, without sacrificing flexibility.
• Supports data lakes with multiple data sources and simultaneous
  multiapplication data sharing.
• Eliminates the need to rearchitect file-based applications for the
  cloud; they can simply be moved to the cloud without development
  cycles.
• Expanded availability in regions across APAC and EMEA, including
  Sydney, Tokyo, Dublin, Frankfurt, and London.

Additional Resources

• Read more about today’s announcements on the NetApp
  blog.
• For more information about NetApp Cloud Data Services solutions, visit here.
• Learn more about NetApp Cloud Infrastructure solutions here.
• More information about NetApp Storage Systems and Software solutions
  is here.
• For information about NetApp Insight 2018, visit https://insight.netapp.com/.

About NetApp

NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. We provide a full range
of hybrid cloud data services that simplify management of applications
and data across cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital
transformation. Together with our partners, we empower global
organizations to unleash the full potential of their data to expand
customer touchpoints, foster greater innovation, and optimize their
operations. For more information, visit www.netapp.com.
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