NetApp and AWS launch fully managed Ontap cloud file storage
Summary
The latest move adds Ontap file storage to these with NetApp’s features set, performance and APIs. It has full capabilities for, for example, SQL, Oracle, SAP etc, and all with full data protection, high availability, disaster recovery brought into AWS.” A key benefit is that it will bring Ontap’s feature set to AWS developers that do not need to learn the details of NetApp deployment and management. Well-established workloads with particularly entrenched back-end requirements will likely remain more cost-efficient in the datacentre for some time to come, whereas deployments of a more greenfield nature can take advantage of the cloud. Customers are paying for consumption vs the cost of establishing and running datacentres,” said Caley. “If there was a choice, customers would move everything to the cloud but the cost and complexity involved means hybrid is the result.