The NetApp® Keystone™ service gives you almost infinite flexibility in how to run, pay for, and manage your data services. Payment options that adjust to your operating expenses are flexible alternatives to traditional capital-outlay models. And if you need to change your purchasing and operating models down the road? You can do that without switching technologies.
NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription gives you all the operational and financial flexibility you need for your on-premises storage:
Pay for performance: Storage service levels based on IOPS and latency that meet varied workload needs
Pay for use: Predictable billing for committed capacity, with pay-per-use billing for bursts of unusual data needs
Get a bundled price: Hardware, core OS, and support at one price per tebibyte per month
Choose a flexible term: As little as 12 months if you have 100TiB or more per site
Choose who manages the storage: NetApp, you, or a partner
At NetApp, we see hybrid cloud used by every customer. Although NetApp offers native integration with major cloud services, our customers do not want to place their data in one cloud service. Customers prefer to have their data within their control. However, their data centers are not designed to handle their growing infrastructure needs at the speed they want. Customers need to add storage space quickly.
NetApp's partnership with Equinix addresses this challenge. The NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription offers storage hosted by NetApp in a private space within the Equinix data center. You get a single invoice for your storage consumption, space, power, cooling, and networking. Additional benefits include:
Data is located privately next to, rather than in, the public cloud. You have the advantages of a single contract and vendor, public cloud services such as compute, and dedicated high-speed connections with low latency.
You don't need to oversubscribe to space; instead, you pay for what you use.
You get the control and governance you are used to and can grow as your business expands.
Here's how a Flex Subscription can play a major role in a car manufacturer's ADAS development cycle and help them to achieve their goals faster.
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NetApp, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of equipment for managing and storing network data. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- product sales (52%): file, cache and storage servers, data management, content distribution and information synthesis softwares;
- support services (37.1%): consulting, maintenance, technical assistance and training services;
- cloud services (6.3%): cloud storage and data management services;
- professional services (4.6%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Americas (54.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (31.3%) and Asia/Pacific (13.9%).
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