Article Seeking More Control Over Your Data? 3 Advantages of NetApp Storage Solutions
By Insight Editor / 1 Jun 2016 / Topics: Storage Data center
It’s no secret that we’re creating increasingly larger volumes of data than ever, and it’s estimated that we’ll collectively reach 40 zettabytes by 2020. Managing, deduplicating, and reducing your storage footprint while lowering IT infrastructure costs is going to become integral for the future of data storage.
While cloud solutions aim to reduce your on-premise storage needs, the fact of the matter is that big data comes with big requirements — and your data has to live somewhere.
There have been some interesting innovations recently that deal with this big data storage space conundrum. One tech firm is developing data storage that replicates cognitive functions, so that data is stored and prioritized in the same manner that the human brain functions. Tiers of storage and systems automatically assign a value to pieces of data in order to automatically organize and handle data
Meanwhile, the University of Washington and Microsoft have successfully stored video and photographs in DNA. By converting binary into nucleotides, this process could potentially shrink digital data centers into the size of a sugar cube.
The world of big data has developed some truly science fiction innovations, and these futuristic solutions are something to keep an eye on. But what about your current data needs?
As companies continue to create data, establishing systems and processes that give you control of your data is integral to keeping up with your growing storage needs. NetApp solutions have been the industry standard solution for storage needs, and continue to create innovative ways that are easily scalable and easily manageable on both private and public cloud services.
Their plethora of solutions also work to drastically reduce your storage footprint. Which is one reason why over one billion end users access cloud services built on NetApp, and 77% of Fortune 500 companies rely on NetApp services.
While NetApp has extensive solutions available for all of your data migration and storage needs, there are a few that we rely on time and time again to help our clients reduce their storage footprint and prepare their data for cloud migration
1. AltaVault® Appliance
Storage that can both protect and compress your data, AltaVault can seamlessly integrate into your physical or virtualized server infrastructure. As a storage appliance, NetApp AltaVault can shrink the volume of your data by 30X and speeds up transport speeds by 4X.
Through deduplication, you can ensure that your extraneous data is compressed by up to 30:1, while security during data migration, as well as at rest, uses FIPS 140-2 level 1 compliant encryption.
While this appliance means that you can easily prepare your data for cloud migration through a variety of providers, you can also apply it to your on-premise storage for quick data archiving and backups. Because you choose where and how your data is stored, compliance is guaranteed.
2. NetApp Private Storage (NPS)
If you’ve been searching for the best of both private and public cloud storage that is portable, NetApps Private Storage (NPS) ensures that you retain complete control of your data in order to meet strict compliance regulations, while being able to reap the benefits of multiple cloud environments.
By reducing the reliance on data stored directly on one cloud environment, NPS allows for quick data migration with multi-cloud solutions that can easily adapt to your workloads, while your sensitive data is stored in Equinix data centers.
By finding that sweet spot between virtualized infrastructures and the public cloud, NPS offers complete security, scalability, and mobility, while still allowing for availability and efficiency.
3. Data ONTAP® Edge
For low-cost storage solutions, Data ONTAP Edge runs on your VMware vSphere so that you can easily scale your virtualized infrastructure, while still employing space-saving practices. The unified clustered data approach is designed to allow your team to regularly update your infrastructure, even during business hours, by eliminating downtime and access disruptions.
The easy management portal allows your IT team to manage flash, disk, or cloud stored data more efficiently. You can easily deploy workloads and restore your database by leveraging flash storage capabilities, all in a matter of minutes — not days. Due to the limited application interruption, you can quickly and easily scale your testing and development platforms to save you time. NetApp FlexClone can also be utilized to instantly create volume clones.
Your solid-state drive (SSD) storage can be reduced by 5X to 10X with inline data reduction for greater storage efficiency and seamless replication and cloning capabilities, yet can scale up to 20PB as your demand continues to grow.
While most enterprise businesses don’t yet require DNA storage or cognitive organization capabilities, the availability of NetApp’s AltaVault, NPS, and OnTap offerings allow for easy cloud data migration, management, and compression. By factoring in extensive data security protocols, the need for quickly scalable storage solutions, and the ever-increasing need for multi-cloud portability, NetApp’s solutions can easily address your data storage needs.
If your business has been struggling with trying to determine the best possible storage solutions for your needs, our team of NetApp qualified professionals can get your servers set up for the ultimate in security and flexibility.
