NetApp BlueXP tiering
Expands primary storage capacity, lower overall storage cost
NetApp® BlueXP™ tiering automatically frees up flash storage capacity without impacting applications or workflows, providing you with complete control over managing data growth for your infrastructure.
Cold data management at its brainiest
BlueXP tiering expands primary storage capacity by automatically moving cold data from on-premises ONTAP clusters to object-based storage, saving up to 70% of your overall storage footprint. It allows you to spend less up-front and grow cost-effectively.
Continuously free up primary storage capacity so that there's always room for more data
NetApp BlueXP tiering delivers real savings on overall storage footprint, streamlining your hybrid multicloud environment.
Continuous Capacity
On average, BlueXP tiering lets you recapture 80% of available high-performance storage and save up to 70% of your overall storage footprint.
Simplify cold data management
Deploy BlueXP tiering with zero application or workflow impact. Take the work out of data tiering using predefined tiering policies or an intuitive customization wizard to automate routine procedures.
Complete Control
Free up high-performance storage capacity for critical workloads. Develop a data tiering strategy tailored to your needs. Data is tiered to your object storage of choice, either on-premises or in the cloud. Maintain granular control with customizable tiering policies. BlueXP tiering offers a simple first step to improving your hybrid multicloud infrastructure.
With BlueXP tiering, you have more capacity
Infrequently accessed (cold) data is discovered and moved to lower-cost, object-based storage, which recaptures high-value primary storage capacity.
Step 1: Set Up
Identify your ONTAP® flash storage and connect it to the object storage of your choice
Step 2: Tier
Check your dashboard for guidance, assign tiering policies to volumes
Step 3: Benefit
Free up capacity on primary storage tier
NetApp is a Leader (Again!)
The 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage Platforms marks our 12th consecutive year as a Leader. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms, Jeff Vogel, Chandra Mukhyala, September 18, 2024.
A Leader in Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms (2024)
A 5-year Leader in Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage (2019-2023)
A 3-year Leader in Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays (2016-2018)
A 6-year Leader in Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays (2013-2018)
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Look closely at BlueXP
Enterprise Strategy Group confirms BlueXP delivers a simpler approach to management of storage and data services.
NetApp wins Frost & Sullivan's 2024 Company of the Year Award
Frost & Sullivan has named NetApp the 2024 Company of the Year in the Global Hybrid Cloud Storage Management Industry
GigaOm declares NetApp storage a leader
“NetApp offers a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade capabilities that maintain consistency regardless of deployment model.” – GigaOm
NetApp has achieved a bull’s-eye in primary storage.
See how much of your data is cold
BlueXP tiering identifies how much of your data is cold, and the capacity that can be captured
Policy-based tiering to meet your needs
Select from pre-defined policies. You can add volumes to tier, find data movement efficiencies, and automate scheduling - all in a few steps.
Your savings, your dashboard
Your tiering dashboard gives you an overview of the tiering environment with additional saving opportunities.
Unified tiering management
You can access all tiered instances and environments from a single access point for a comprehensive view. NetApp BlueXP tiering requires no software or hardware to install or manage.
See for yourself.
NetApp customers found the answers to meet their economic, IT simplification, and infrastructure management needs with BlueXP tiering. See what they’re saying—then calculate the savings for yourself.
Connecting the on-prem device to object storage on AWS allows us to not only save money but also scale our on-prem environments.
Marcus Masching, Head of IT Computing Services, Festo
We have over 130 scientists doing ongoing research on missions that impact everything from climate change to solar physics and all sorts of amazing things. The NetApp solution allows them to more easily collaborate and be much, much more effective.
Alex Green, IT systems architect, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, CU Boulder
Object storage is a viable option for many use cases and worth going for it. All you need is talking to your personal contact at SVA.
Andreas Müller, Product Manager Managed Cloud Services, SVA
For me, NetApp benefits are data management, ease of use, and support. Active IQ is brilliant. I have never seen a vendor with such proactive support.
Director for Data Center and Managed Services, European Media Company
Your choice of cloud
Review our documentation to learn how to tier cold data to your choice of cloud object storage.
BlueXP: Unify hybrid multicloud management
BlueXP delivers a unified experience for storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments. Its intuitive UI, AIOps-powered insights and automation, flexible consumption parameters, and integrated protection provide the operational simplicity and security required for today’s hybrid multicloud world.
