FICO
Accelerates time to market.
OpenStack
Block, file, object—it’s covered.
NetApp delivers the industry’s most comprehensive support for the Cinder block and Manila file storage services. NetApp is a charter member of the OpenStack Foundation and, since early 2011, a contributing member of several OpenStack projects including Cinder and Manila.
Leading Vendor
NetApp is among the frontrunners for OpenStack storage solutions, and has the broadest storage and data management portfolio in the industry (ONTAP).
OpenStack Community Contribution
NetApp is a strong contributor to the OpenStack community and provides industry leading shared-filesystem access on NFS & CIFS delivered through Manila, a project that NetApp spearheaded in the OpenStack community.
Open Source
NetApp are among the leading all-time contributors to the Cinder and Manila codebase. You can have full confidence that NetApp is committed to fostering OpenStack development.
Why OpenStack with NetApp?
Orchestration
NetApp’s platforms are fully integrated into the common OpenStack API framework; in addition, NetApp Ansible modules provide extensive support for configuration management and automation.
Platform & Protocol Support
NetApp has two classes of platforms that can function as Cinder and Manila storage backends (ONTAP). This means that there is a solution that best suits your needs, balancing data services, performance and scale-out requirements.
Rich Feature Set
Rich Feature Set - NetApp storage solutions support thin provisioning for on-demand allocation, NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) for data encryption at rest, and support IPv6 addresses.
Scale
Designed for service provider scale and OpenStack environments, Element QoS settings guarantee workload protection across vast deployments.
Reduces Data Replication
NetApp ONTAP’s Snapshot technology makes it possible to generate space-efficient snapshots, providing a greater utilization factor and resiliency for business operations.
Accelerate Test & QA
NetApp cloning and data management features accelerate the DevOps application pipeline, making it easier for developers to non-disruptively and quickly QA against real production data.
OpenStack private cloud done right
Storage remains a complex, expensive aspect of setting up an OpenStack cloud. One you can’t afford to get wrong. Learn how to get storage right with this blueprint for OpenStack Cloud.
Primary use cases
Start your transformation with data, connected to your cloud, then accelerated for your business.
DevTest
Create new features quickly and easily and get them to market faster. Differentiate your offering and gain an advantage over competitors.
IaaS
IT ticket systems are slow and frustrating. Build a private cloud for your users to provision their resources and services themselves using a self-service model of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, while you define the tiering and architecture to deliver on SLAs.
NFV
NFV is replacing dedicated networking appliances with software and automation, offering agility, flexibility, and simplicity. See this great example of telecommunication companies deploying OpenStack.
Case Studies
NHN Entertainment
Takes gaming to the next level.
STC
Operates Middle East's largest OpenStack-based public cloud.
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Swift on E-Series and StorageGRID Webscale |
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The Red Hat OpenStack Platform on Flexpod is a Cisco Validated Design of a full stack to build your OpenStack datacenter. |
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Monitor and manage your OpenStack cloud with OnCommand Insight Explore more |
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