When hybrid clouds become a belief

Without knowing it, cloud computing has been around for so many years. For the cloud, people are excited from the beginning of their contact with each other, continue to debate, and then fight for public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud, now it's time to pull the cloud and witness "turning the cloud into rain.

From the blind pursuit of the cloud at the beginning to the present, users began to become rational. If they could bring direct benefits, they would be useless. Based on different application scenarios, the cloud can be divided into two camps: BAT is always keen on public cloud, while enterprise users prefer hybrid cloud. Bat said that hybrid cloud is a pseudo proposition; traditional IT enterprises are used to using research data to talk about things-hybrid cloud is already the core and foundation of enterprise it.

Netapp insight 2014 is a well-known "hybrid cloud" feast. Although it was not the first time to talk about hybrid cloud, it took three days to explain only one idea: it is time to embrace hybrid cloud, for the first time, I had a clear and in-depth understanding of netapp's hybrid cloud strategy.

A series of new changes such as hybrid cloud, flash memory, and software definition make people agree with netapp's statement that it has reached a turning point. The economics, speed, and scalability of Public clouds are consistent and balanced with the control, security, and data service capabilities of Private clouds.

According to the needs of enterprises, after years of IT construction, large and small enterprises have more or less their own IT systems. After these self-owned systems are gradually transformed into private clouds, enterprises must also consider how to deal with them temporarily during business peaks. When more data is available, is it necessary to transfer some unimportant but large amounts of data to the cloud; can the application cloud be used as a new platform for data protection or even disaster tolerance. Public clouds are required. The benefits of public cloud are not discussed in detail. The key is how enterprises can combine private cloud with public cloud to be more artistic, targeted, and insightful.

Netapp says it's the best time to embrace hybrid cloud! Because netapp is well prepared in terms of policies, solutions, technologies and practices, and partners.

About four years ago, netapp began its practices on hybrid cloud. AWS is the best example. This close partnership has continued until now, and the latest cloud ONTAP version of netapp is still available for AWS.

Netapp wants to use a hybrid cloud chain to link Private clouds, cloud service providers, and ultra-large cloud service providers to form a closed loop integrating private and public services. Cloud is an architecture, a pipeline, and data on it is the key to generating value. Therefore, hybrid cloud, as a "background", needs to assume a brand new "Data fabric" to provide users with more free choices and good control. There is no limit to a data fabric. Any data or application that meets certain standards can run in this fabric.

According to netapp, the road to building data fabric can be divided into three phases:-To achieve Storage Virtualization; in, the virtualization storage system was entered, and virtualization was not implemented on a single product, however, in an integrated system, various technologies and media can be integrated on the basis of virtualization, support for third-party heterogeneous storage, and can also be combined with server virtualization. Starting from 2014, the Virtualized cloud enters the practical stage.

In the cloud computing era, netapp is basically positioned as an enterprise-level storage solution provider. From the storage point of view, netapp's latest clusted Data ONTAP 8.3 is also the basic operating system of hybrid cloud. As the world's No. 1 storage operating system, clusted Data ONTAP 8.3 has greatly improved its performance, scalability, availability, and efficiency. In addition to technological improvements, clusted Data ONTAP 8.3 also supports partner products to form a complete ecosystem, including Microsoft, VMWare, Citrix, Linux, openstack, and Oracle.

If clusted Data ONTAP is the cornerstone of the netapp hybrid cloud, the newly released cloud ONTAP is the "kill" of netapp on the public cloud ". It can also be said that clusted Data ONTAP is still a storage platform for netapp, while cloud ONTAP is a cloud platform that truly targets a broad public cloud environment and third-party partners.

Netapp expands netapp private storage (NPS) for cloud needs. In addition to supporting the original successful customers AWS and Azure, netapp also supports softlayer.

In the eyes of many people, the cloud is ethereal and uncontrollable. Now, the reason why netapp dared to shout out "now is the best time to embrace hybrid cloud ", it is because netapp is confident that users can better control the cloud on their hybrid cloud and data fabric platforms, and use the cloud to achieve "your cloud and your data ".

Today, you don't have to worry about whether the cloud is available or not. The answer is actually quite clear to you. What we want to know is how to implement the cloud, whether it is public, private, or hybrid. When mainstream IT vendors have already put forward the "hybrid cloud", the user's problem arises again, that is, how to find the difference and find the most suitable product and solution.

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When hybrid clouds become a belief