NetApp deploys cutting-edge tools to drive the power of data

Parag Amalnerkar
Director Marketing - NetApp India, South Asia & ANZ

"The world is fundamentally changing, and enterprises are undergoing a digital transformation journey. The focus is now on building innovative services and solutions. At NetApp, we are helping enterprises to modernize their IT infrastructure to create value. We have a large portfolio of products but, the three key solutions that stand out in the market are -

NetApp Cloud Data Services: With NetApp cloud services, we are enabling enterprises to transform data into a strategic business asset. Whether its IT managers, data scientist or developers, by using our solutions they can accelerate innovation, respond faster to customer needs, and stay ahead of the competition. We have partnered with all the leading Hyperscale’s in the world to help customers take advantage of our cloud Data Services solutions.

NetApp All Flash: With our products like All Flash FAS A-Series, SolidFire and EF-Series we are delivering industry’s most advanced data management infrastructure. We are providing fast, consistent response times to accelerate high-performance databases and data analytics.

NetApp Hyper Convergence Infrastructure (HCI): NetApp HCI is industry’s first enterprise-scale hyper converged solution that delivers on the full promise of HCI, allowing customers to run multiple applications with guaranteed performance, unmatched flexibility, scale, and data fabric integration. With NetApp HCI, organizations can unleash the complete power of their infrastructure with the ability to simplify management and independently scale compute and storage resources.

Digital transformation is the biggest trend due to which businesses and enterprises are becoming more data-centric. Today, executives worldwide rank digital transformation as a top, strategic IT priority.

Other trends include -

Increasing Data at an Unprecedented Rate: Data is growing faster than the ability to transport it. However, instead of moving the data, the applications and resources needed to process it will be moved to the data and that has implications for new architectures like edge, core, and cloud. It must be enabled very deliberately to ensure that the right data is being retained for later decision making.

Predictive Analytics Become Table Stakes: IT administrators are now looking for infrastructures which will deliver intelligent insights. These insights will be derived from predictive analytics. We are seeing data becoming more self-aware, metadata will make it possible for the data to proactively transport, categorize, analyze and protect itself.

Emergence of decentralized immutable mechanisms for managing data: More decentralized, immutable mechanisms for managing data are emerging. Technologies like blockchain are set to challenge the traditional sense of data protection and management

Evolving from “Big Data” to “Huge Data” demands new solid state-driven architectures: The big data is on its way to evolve into huge data and consequentially drive up the demand for newer storage solutions and architectures.

It is our single-minded passion to help leading organizations count on NetApp for software, systems and services to store, manage, protect, and retain one of their most precious assets: their data. We enable enterprises, service providers and partners to envision, deploy, and evolve their IT environments. Customers benefit from our open collaboration with other technology leaders to create the specific solutions they need. It is this single-minded passion which translates into our sales & marketing efforts in the market place and led us to succeed year after year.

NetApp has spent the last year in deploying cutting edge tools to make us more data driven. As a company, we are getting more active on the social front through social listening, so that we can track customer sentiments on real-time basis and respond to them in a manner that addresses their requirements.”

NetApp has spent the last year in deploying cutting edge tools to make us more data driven. As a company, we are getting more active on the social front through social listening, so that we can track customer sentiments on real-time basis and respond to them in a manner that addresses their requirements."