NetApp launches BlueXP as single console across on-prem and cloud

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NetApp has announced BlueXP, a hybrid- and multicloud storage management platform that aims to give customers a single view of their on-premise and cloud NetApp storage, with the ability to monitor performance, migrate data between locations, and predict capacity and performance bottlenecks. NetApp also announced an upgrade to its Ontap operating system, which introduced S3 access, and full integration of its Instaclustr and CloudCheckr acquisitions to its Spot cloud management platform. Customers will broadly be able to take two approaches – one where they have detailed control over all aspects of storage management, and one where they can settle for BlueXP-generated recommendations. “The journey to the cloud has been happening for a long time now and for most customers, it is hybrid- and multicloud and on-prem,” said Schwartz. But the integration of S3 accessibility is an interesting development that could appeal to users of, for example, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) workloads where they want to retain large amounts of unstructured data in object storage and more-rapidly available block and file data, all under NetApp Ontap-based hardware.

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