STaaS done right - delivers a true hybrid cloud experience with a common, multi-protocol storage OS across on-prem and public cloud, all via a single subscription: NetApp Keystone.
Seize your advantage with Keystone’s pay-as-you-go, hybrid cloud storage services. Power all your block, file, and object workloads wherever you want them — on-prem, in colos, and natively in all three major public clouds. Accelerate and optimize your IT with the industry-leading performance, resiliency, and seamless hybrid data mobility of NetApp intelligent data infrastructure.
Align IT costs with business usage via pay-as-you-go storage. Optimize spend with the broadest range of scalable performance tiers and flexible 1-5 year terms. Save up to 50% via automated data tiering, adjust capacity or shift to the cloud by up to 25% annually, and burst to the cloud at no extra cost.
Minimize the impact of your carbon footprint and meet sustainability goals—guaranteed—with standard watts/TiB for each SLA-based performance level, automated data tiering, sustainability monitoring, and cancellation of overprovisioning, on premises and in the cloud.
A single service supports both block and file on a unified platform.
Reduce support and maintenance costs for storage by up to 30%. Free up IT teams to focus on business innovation, not day-to-day tasks.
As-a-service everywhere―monitor and orchestrate your hybrid data environment with a single pane of glass. You choose how, where, and when to use data services: on premises and in the cloud.
Bridge to the cloud with the ability to move to any major public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), seamlessly.
No need to modify your entire infrastructure.
Move data, automatically, wherever you need it.
Save over 50% of capacity cost by automatically offloading unused cold data into cost-efficient cloud storage.
No hidden costs for bursting to the cloud, and no premium charges for data changes.
Flexible multi-year contracts enable you to reduce capacity or shift to the cloud by 25% annually.
Align costs with usage by matching workloads to the broadest range of performance tiers available.
The 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage Platforms marks our 12th consecutive year as a Leader. [1]
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Keystone STaaS offerings are optimized for performance outcomes and costs for unified file and block, object storage, and cloud data services. It’s time to simplify our storage management and reap the benefits of NetApp innovation. Experience the ultimate on premises and cloud connector that delivers agility, operational flexibility, and reduced financial risk.
Service Level | Extreme | Premium | Standard | Value |
Best for | Mission -critical workloads (analytics, databases) | T1 workloads (VDI, virtualized apps, sw dev) | T2 workloads (File shares, web servers) | Secondary storage, backup |
Min commitment | File/Block - 50 TiB | File/Block - 50 TiB | File - 100 TiB
Object - 200 TiB |
File - 100 TiB
Object - 500 TiB |
Capacity Increment | 25 TiB | 25 TiB | 25 TiB | File - 25 TiB
Object - 100 TiB |
Protocols | File - FC, iSCSI, NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, NFS, NFSv4/RDMA, SMB, S3
Block - NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI Object - S3 |
Service Level | Cloud Volumes ONTAP |
Best for | DR, dev/test, business apps |
Min committed capacity | 4 TiB |
Capacity increment | 1 TiB |
Protocols | NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, S3* (*AWS & Azure only) |
Getting started with NetApp Keystone STaaS is easy. First, determine which workloads are best for a storage-as-a-service model. Next, select your performance levels, capacities, and add-on data services. And finally, choose your terms. Our team of specialists will take care of the design, build, and deploy, and have you up and running in as little as two weeks.
Start by identifying those use cases that will benefit from a storage-as-a-service offering. Need help planning your roadmap? Explore our portfolio of Professional Services for Hybrid Multicloud, and one of our specialists will help guide your success.
With a solid plan in place, it’s time to subscribe to Keystone. Select your performance service levels and committed capacities, add-ons like advanced data protection and data tiering services, contract terms, and who will operate the environment—you, a certified partner, or us. NetApp offers a fully managed service for an additional monthly fee. Need help determining storage requirements for your various workloads? Request a Workload Analysis for Keystone workshop.
Our team of NetApp specialists is here to provide design, build, installation, configuration, deployment, and onboarding services according to your contract terms. And we can migrate your data onto Keystone and put it on the same bill. We won’t leave until you're happy.