Hosted i.e. ‘cloud delivery’ of sophisticated value-rich IT solutions may require the expertise of experienced partners to help make them work for customers, just as these professionals are needed for premise-installed products.

 

For these reasons, NetApp, which creates storage and data management solutions, is now announcing its close relationships with industry-leading IT vendors and enterprise Value Added Resellers (VARs). They provide customers with the technology and solutions to build their cloud infrastructures, including global service providers and system integrators that are leveraging NetApp technology to create cloud service offerings for their own enterprise customers.

 

“NetApp believes that because there are several elements that must come together to create a cloud infrastructure, no single vendor is able to adequately address each and every layer,” says Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing, NetApp. “It's imperative that customers identify the right partners that can provide the services, technology, and integration necessary for their unique cloud needs.

 

“Today's announcement not only spotlights the best-of-breed partners that NetApp has cultivated to help customers, but also helps validate our technology offering for the cloud thanks to the many service providers and system integrators who are leveraging NetApp solutions.”

 

In turn these suppliers have given NetApp permission to name them and to offer comments on their business relationships:

 

Here is a small sample:

 

*          “Accenture's (News - Alert) clients have many requirements for cloud infrastructures, including economy of implementation, simplicity of operation, high-performance, multi-application processing, and assured data security. Accenture and its technology partners such as NetApp are committed to delivering this combination to enable our clients to reduce costs while improving responsiveness and performance.”

 

- John Kaltenmark, managing director, Accenture Technology Consulting

 

*          “The benefits of cloud computing -- improved business agility, self-service, reduced capex -- are well documented, but they can only be truly recognized with a comprehensive business service management strategy that reduces risk and drives compliance. Together, BMC and NetApp are providing IT organizations and service providers with a comprehensive, integrated service and storage management solution for cloud and virtual environments.”

 

- Kia Behnia, Chief Technology Officer, BMC Software

 

*          “As our customers simplify and streamline their cloud data center infrastructure they need to ensure that their networking, computing, and storage infrastructure work seamlessly together. Cisco is working with industry-leading companies like NetApp to ensure interoperability for dynamic networking and unified computing solutions to help enterprise customers unleash the power of their enterprise clouds.”

 

- Soni Jiandani, vice president of marketing, Server Access Virtualization Business Group, Cisco

 

*          “Citrix Cloud Center (C3) integrated with NetApp storage systems provides cloud providers with a robust platform for delivering infrastructure as a service. As the foundation for Citrix C3, XenServer and Citrix Essentials enable cloud service providers to seamlessly leverage the advanced NetApp storage capabilities across their cloud platform, reducing the time and cost to deploy highly scalable and elastic services.”

 

- Frank Artale, vice president of business development, Citrix Systems (News - Alert), Inc.

 

*          “NetApp is a strategic cloud computing partner for Long View. With NetApp storage and data management we can build a service-based and virtualized dynamic infrastructure that forms the foundation for efficient internal or external cloud solutions for our enterprise customers. We look forward to continued collaboration with NetApp to bring automated cloud services to our customers to improve business agility and reduce data center costs.”

 

- Dan Sottile, senior vice president, North America Sales, Marketing, and Business Development, Long View

 

*          “Microsoft (News - Alert) and NetApp provide powerful solutions for building and managing private cloud infrastructures. We're helping innovative organizations transition to private cloud computing environments by providing them with the required combination of virtualization, service-oriented management systems, and a scale-out application model. With NetApp storage and Microsoft virtualizations solutions, customers can deploy cost-effective and efficient data center infrastructure that provides fast response to their businesses' needs.”

 

- Zane Adam, senior director, virtualization and management, Microsoft

 

*          “Our NetApp platform provides Siemens IT Solutions and Services with advanced capabilities, including storage virtualization, thin provisioning (FlexVol), data deduplication, file consolidation, disk-based recovery, remote replication, cloning, ATA support, and multiple connectivity choices. All in a single, unified platform. They are foundation technologies for our infrastructure-as-a-service and private cloud capabilities. These features, when leveraged with virtualization, create the structure for a dynamic storage environment that can be provisioned based on business needs in real time.”

 

- John Hill, CTO, Siemens IT Solutions and Services

 

*          “Tata Communications Ltd. has built its global hosting, on-demand storage services based on leading technologies and industry practices. Using NetApp for our cloud-based services allows us to easily manage and monitor our infrastructure to provide secure, 24/7/365 availability and lower costs for our enterprise customers while relieving them of the day-to-day management of their IT infrastructure. Together with NetApp we enable our customers to flexibly support their business requirements today and then quickly scale up or down as their business needs change, paying only for what they need.”

 

*          “Unisys (News - Alert) is pleased to partner with NetApp to provide the federal sector with an innovative utility storage service offering. This scalable 'pay-as-you-go' solution allows clients to access their data with the assurance that their assets are securely managed within a proven and structured delivery framework. This unique offering provides significant flexibility and cost benefits to clients and positions NetApp and Unisys as leading providers of data center transformation solutions for the federal government.”

 

- Venkatapathi Puvvada, managing partner, Horizontal Services and CTO, Unisys Federal

 

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