Singapore – NetApp, an intelligent data infrastructure firm, has recently announced the availability of its on-premises enterprise storage arrays for AWS Outposts. This latest solution empowers AWS Outposts customers to simplify external block data volume management on NetApp storage arrays, leveraging the familiar AWS Management Console interface.
With it, customers can benefit from a simplified user experience, enabling customers to attach block data volumes backed by NetApp on-premises enterprise storage arrays to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on Outposts directly from the AWS Management Console. This strategic approach streamlines the user experience by automating volume attachments.
Another key advantage of this solution is its resilient and optimised infrastructure, allowing customers to use the capabilities of NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure like NetApp SnapMirror and NetApp Snapshot. This includes tapping into the storage efficiencies in Outpost deployments for a resilient, compliant, and optimised infrastructure.
Lastly, by using NetApp’s unified approach to data storage, AWS Outposts users will have a seamless and certified hybrid cloud experience that uses industry-leading tools and services. Said capability to manage and protect their data in Outposts deployments, AWS Local Zones deployments using Cloud Volumes ONTAP, the rest of their own data centres, and the cloud when using services such as Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
Furthermore, new enhancements to Spot Ocean by Spot by NetApp are set to bring advanced automation to infrastructure optimisation for Kubernetes and containers. As organisations scale their cloud Kubernetes operations to meet increasing application workload demands, they need a solution that helps them optimise their infrastructure while controlling costs.
These updates to Spot Ocean aim to assist organisations in achieving those goals with a new fast-response auto-scaler that ensures clusters have the infrastructure to meet workload requirements, a dynamic commitment utilisation process that uses available resources before provisioning on-demand or preemptive instances, and a new dashboard that provides more visibility and insights into cost optimisation efforts and infrastructure efficiency.
Jonsi Stefansson, senior vice president and chief technology officer at NetApp, remarked, “Whether customers are looking to use hybrid cloud infrastructure to increase resiliency or improve compliance, leveraging NetApp storage in AWS Outposts can help customers run applications securely and efficiently at the edge.”
“This solution makes it simpler for customers to leverage NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure to manage their data in AWS Outposts deployments. By automating volume attachments, IT teams can now tap into the efficiency and power of NetApp on-premises storage arrays to power critical workloads,” added Stefansson.
