NetApp Announces Enhancements to NetApp® ONTAP® Data Management Software
October 20, 2020 at 08:00 am EDT
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NetApp announced enhancements to cloud-connected NetApp® ONTAP® data management software. The company also announced a more flexible NetApp Keystone™ Flex Subscription service and a new NetApp SolidFire® Enterprise SDS solution. With these updates, NetApp helps organizations everywhere unlock the best of cloud. Organizations can now optimize performance and security, reduce costs, easily extend data management from on premises to any cloud, and consume hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service. The new features and capabilities that NetApp introduced include: Enhanced NetApp ONTAP software capabilities that offer greater consolidation, deeper cloud ?integration, and continuous data availability for improved simplicity, efficiency, and protection of business-critical enterprise applications. Updates to NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription, providing a fast, flexible path to a cloud-enabled data center with “pay-as-you-grow” subscriptions for a cloudlike experience on premises. The Keystone Flex Subscription also offers public cloud integration available through the NetApp partner ecosystem. The new NetAppSolidFire Enterprise SDS solution, providing a simple and automated foundation for private cloud with NetApp Element® software as standalone software-defined storage that can be deployed on any hardware.
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%).