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NetApp 攜手 Amazon Elastic VMware Service 加速 VMware 遷移
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP 現已作為外部儲存支援 Amazon Elastic VMware Service 加利福尼亞州聖荷西, August 07, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(美國商業資訊)--智能數據基礎設施公司 NetApp®（納斯達克股票代碼：NTAP）今日宣佈，Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP® 現已成為 Amazon Web Services (AWS) 上 Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) 支援的外部儲存選項。Amazon EVS 現已正式發布，作為一項全新的 AWS 服務，容許用戶在其 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) 內直接運行 VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)，並可同時搭配其他應用。透過 Amazon EVS，企業可以快速將 VMware 工作負載遷移到 AWS，以無縫擴展其 VMware 環境，提升業務敏捷性及轉型能力。 透過與 Amazon EVS 的整合，NetApp 結合其經驗證的數據管理及保護能力，與 AWS 的規模、彈性和效能相結合，使客戶能夠簡化並加速其 AWS 遷移，無需重建平台或重構現有應用程式，亦無需改變現有數據管理流程。 將關鍵任務的工作負載遷移至雲端，有助於企業淘汰老化基礎設施、降低營運成本，並如期完成關鍵業務目標。然而，若缺乏有效的數據策略，遷移過程中可能會出現如額外開支、IT 環境擴張、服務碎片化等新挑戰。NetApp 是唯一一家在 AWS 上原生建構第一方企業級數據儲存服務的供應商，憑藉在 AWS 上原生建構的企業儲存解決方案，協助客戶加速雲端中的現代工作負載。客戶在採用 Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP® 後，成本可降低高達 50%。透過 FSx for ONTAP 管理及遷移 VMware 環境，企業可充分利用智能數據基礎設施（Intelligent Data Infrastructure）進行遷移規劃，並藉由內建的數據管理功能降低整體擁有成本。 「使用 Amazon EVS 搭配 FSx for ONTAP 的客戶，現可享有與本地部署相同的數據效率、保護能力及自動化功能。」NetApp 雲端儲存高級副總裁兼總經理 Pravjit Tiwana 表示，「我們與 AWS 攜手合作，讓關鍵業務工作負載更易遷移至雲端，並實現大規模管理。」 為更好地支援客戶於雲端高效管理工作負載，NetApp 推出以下功能： FSx for NetApp ONTAP 支援 Amazon EVS ：Amazon EVS 是 AWS 推出的 VMware 自主管理型雲端解決方案，現已全面推出，而 FSx for NetApp ONTAP 為其支援的儲存選項。Amazon EVS 可自動化及簡化部署流程，提供即用型 VCF 環境，令 VMware 管理員可透過熟悉的工具，將本地虛擬機快速遷移至 AWS。將 FSx for ONTAP 作為 Amazon EVS 的外部儲存，可提供先進的數據管理與保護功能，降低系統負擔，提升網絡安全彈性，並降低總體擁有成本。 Amazon EVS 工作負載的遷移顧問 ：BlueXP workload factory for AWS 的遷移顧問功能現已支援 Amazon EVS 工作負載，有助簡化和加快遷移過程。客戶可以自動識別本地虛擬器、配置 FSx for ONTAP，並於 Amazon EVS 中設置數據儲存。 BlueXP 擴展 VMware 災難復原支援 ：BlueXP 的 VMware 災難復原功能現已與 Amazon EVS 整合，並使用 FSx for ONTAP 作為可靠的災難復原目標。支援的數據儲存選項包括透過 iSCSI 協定的 NFS（基於檔案）和 VMFS（基於區塊），確保災難復原解決方案靈活高效。 增強的勒索軟件防護功能：為進一步支援客戶保護 Amazon EVS 工作負載，NetApp ONTAP 的自主勒索軟件防護（ARP）現支援 FSx for ONTAP，可即時偵測與回應勒索軟件事件。此外，NetApp BlueXP 的勒索軟件防護服務支援 FSx for ONTAP，協助客戶全面部署勒索軟件事件防禦。上述功能以原生方式支援 AWS 工作負載，有助保護客戶數據，並透過在混合雲的儲存層主動偵測勒索軟件，最大限度地減少停機時間。 NetApp 優選合作夥伴暨 AWS 合作夥伴 Xtravirt 表示，此系列更新對於計劃將 VMware 工作負載遷移至公有雲的企業而言是一大利好。「FSx for ONTAP 對 Amazon EVS 的支援，為客戶提供了更細緻的數據控制能力，」Xtravirt 首席商業官 Robin Gardner 表示，「客戶將能夠使用 NetApp 的高級數據管理功能，更高效、安全地管理混合部署，減少虛擬環境的管理開銷。」 沒有任何勒索軟件偵測或防護系統能夠完全保證免受勒索軟件攻擊。儘管攻擊有機會避過偵測，NetApp 技術亦可作為重要的額外防線。 其他資源 關於 NetApp NetApp是一家智慧資料基礎設施公司，將統一資料儲存、整合資料、營運和工作負載服務和相結合，讓充滿顛覆變化的世界為每個客戶帶來商機。NetApp建立無孤島的基礎設施，然後運用可觀測性和AI來實現最佳的資料管理。做為唯一原生內建於全球最大雲端的企業級儲存服務，我們的資料儲存提供順暢的靈活性。此外，我們的資料服務具有卓越的網路韌性、治理和應用程式敏捷性，為使用者創造資料優勢。我們的營運和工作負載服務透過可觀測性和AI，為基礎設施和工作負載提供效能和效率的持續最佳化。無論資料類型、工作負載或環境如何，都可以透過NetApp改造資料基礎架構以實現業務機會。如欲瞭解更多資訊，請造訪 或在 X 、 LinkedIn 、 Facebook 和 Instagram 上關注我們。 NETAPP、NETAPP 標誌以及 是 NetApp Inc. 的商標。其他公司和產品名稱則可能為其各自所有者的商標。 免責聲明：本公告之原文版本乃官方授權版本。譯文僅供方便瞭解之用，煩請參照原文，原文版本乃唯一具法律效力之版本。 請前往 瀏覽源版本: Contacts 媒體聯絡人： Kenya Hayes NetApp 投資者聯絡人： Kris Newton NetApp
Techday NZ
4 days ago
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- Techday NZ
NetApp brings FSx for ONTAP to Amazon EVS for enhanced cloud migration
NetApp has confirmed that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available as an external storage option for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon EVS is a recently introduced AWS service that enables customers to operate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), running alongside other applications. This service aims to aid organisations in moving VMware workloads to AWS, extending their VMware environments and providing added business agility. Cloud migration support The integration leverages NetApp's data management and protection functions within the cloud environment provided by AWS. It is designed to help customers transition their VMware workloads to AWS without requiring changes to application platforms, refactoring, or adjustments to existing workflows. This new option is intended to address the complexities associated with cloud migration for mission critical workloads. By doing so, businesses can eliminate outdated infrastructure, lower operational expenses, and maintain important business timelines. NetApp noted that an effective data strategy is necessary to avoid challenges such as unplanned costs, IT sprawl, and disconnected services. NetApp is currently the only enterprise storage provider with a first-party data storage service built into AWS. Users who have adopted Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP have achieved cost reductions of up to 50 percent. The service's built-in data management capabilities also support improved planning and reduced total cost of ownership for VMware environment migrations. Customer and partner perspectives "Customers utilizing Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP can now enjoy the same data efficiency, protection, and automation they trust on-premises," said Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp. "Through our collaboration with AWS, we're making it easier to move critical workloads to the cloud and manage them at scale." Matthew Swinbourne, CTO Cloud Architecture at NetApp Asia Pacific, also commented on the regional impact: "We foresee incredible benefits for Asia Pacific enterprises with the launch of Amazon EVS. The native integration of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP into Amazon EVS elevates the security, efficiency and performance of VMware workloads whilst reducing the TCO for our customers. With this launch, APAC organizations can achieve the flexibility, performance, and cost benefits that they need to accelerate their cloud ambitions." Xtravirt, a NetApp Preferred Partner and AWS partner, expressed support for the integration. Robin Gardner, CCO at Xtravirt, stated: "Enabling support for FSx for ONTAP on Amazon EVS gives customers more granular control over the data powering some of their most important workloads. Customers will be able access NetApp's advanced data management functionality to reduce the overhead of managing virtual environments and more efficiently and securely manage hybrid deployments." New features and functions NetApp now provides customers with several enhancements intended to simplify the management of advanced workloads in the cloud. These include the general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a storage option for Amazon EVS, improved migration processes using BlueXP workload factory, and expanded disaster recovery options within BlueXP for VMware. The disaster recovery solution is compatible with both NFS- and VMFS-based datastores, supporting file and block protocols. The company has also introduced further measures to enhance ransomware protection for Amazon EVS workloads. Notably, the NetApp ONTAP autonomous ransomware protection for FSx for ONTAP can detect and respond to ransomware events in real time. This is complemented by the BlueXP ransomware protection service, which supports end-to-end orchestration for customers to safeguard their data in AWS environments and reduce downtime by identifying threats at the storage layer. NetApp emphasised that, while its technologies add an important layer of ransomware defence, no detection or prevention system can provide absolute protection. There remains the possibility that some ransomware attacks might go undetected. Follow us on: Share on:
Techday NZ
5 days ago
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- Techday NZ
NetApp & AWS extend FSx for ONTAP support to Amazon EVS
NetApp and Amazon Web Services have announced that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now a supported external storage option for the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS). The development means customers can run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), supporting the migration and management of critical VMware workloads to the cloud, while maintaining their existing data management workflows. With the inclusion of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a storage option for Amazon EVS, organisations are able to leverage NetApp's data management and protection in the AWS environment. This is set to simplify and accelerate the migration of workloads to AWS, without requiring applications to be re-platformed or re-factored. Migration and efficiency Migrating business-critical workloads to the cloud is frequently seen as a way to remove legacy infrastructure, lower operational costs, and fulfil business timelines. However, doing so requires effective data strategies to manage risks related to costs, IT complexity, and fragmented services. NetApp is currently the only enterprise storage solution provider with a first-party storage service natively built on AWS, which allows customers to accelerate workloads in the cloud by using technologies designed specifically for the AWS ecosystem. According to NetApp, customers have reported reductions in costs of up to 50 percent after adopting Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. By integrating FSx for ONTAP with their VMware environments, organisations can take advantage of Intelligent Data Infrastructure to improve migration planning and lower total cost of ownership through built-in management capabilities. "Customers utilizing Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP can now enjoy the same data efficiency, protection, and automation they trust on-premises," said Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp. "Through our collaboration with AWS, we're making it easier to move critical workloads to the cloud and manage them at scale." New capabilities NetApp has released several new features to further support customers managing advanced workloads in the cloud. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports Amazon EVS, which is designed to simplify deployments and provide a ready-to-use VCF environment on AWS. VMware administrators migrating to AWS can use the same VCF tools present in their on-premises setups. FSx for ONTAP as an external storage solution in the Amazon EVS environment brings data management and protection features intended to reduce overhead, lower costs, and bolster cyber resilience. Additionally, the migration advisor feature within BlueXP workload factory for AWS now supports Amazon EVS workloads. This tool automates the discovery of on-premises virtual machines, provisioning of FSx for ONTAP, and placement of datastores in Amazon EVS, aiming to simplify and speed up migration processes. BlueXP disaster recovery for VMware has been expanded to integrate with Amazon EVS, utilising FSx for ONTAP as a disaster recovery target. Supported datastore configurations include both file-based (NFS) and block-based (VMFS using iSCSI) protocols. This aims to provide customers with flexible and efficient disaster recovery solutions. Ransomware protection NetApp has also enhanced ransomware protection for workloads running on Amazon EVS. The ONTAP autonomous ransomware protection (ARP) for FSx for ONTAP monitors and responds to ransomware events in real time, while BlueXP ransomware protection service extends orchestration capabilities for customers seeking to improve their defence against such threats. According to NetApp, enabling these features in AWS aims to protect customer data and limit downtime through proactive detection at the storage layer across hybrid cloud environments. Partner support Xtravirt, a NetApp Preferred Partner and AWS partner, expressed support for the announcement, stating that it will benefit businesses seeking to move VMware workloads to the public cloud. "Enabling support for FSx for ONTAP on Amazon EVS gives customers more granular control over the data powering some of their most important workloads," said Robin Gardner, CCO at Xtravirt. "Customers will be able access NetApp's advanced data management functionality to reduce the overhead of managing virtual environments and more efficiently and securely manage hybrid deployments." NetApp maintains that while no ransomware detection or prevention system can guarantee complete safety, its technology serves as an important additional layer of defence for customers deploying critical workloads on AWS.
Techday NZ
5 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
NetApp brings enhanced data management to Amazon EVS on AWS
NetApp has announced that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP will now be available as a supported external storage option for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon EVS is a newly available service that enables customers to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), alongside other cloud workloads. This offering allows businesses to migrate VMware environments to AWS without the need to re-platform or re-factor their existing applications, extending their on-premises setups and unlocking additional flexibility for transformation initiatives. The integration is designed to combine NetApp's data management and protection tools with AWS's platform capabilities, aimed at helping customers simplify and speed up workloads migrations to the AWS Cloud. The move also allows organisations to avoid disruption to their data management workflows while leveraging AWS scalability and resilience. Migrating key workloads to the cloud is considered a pathway for businesses to drive change by moving away from ageing infrastructure, lowering operational expenditures, and meeting vital timelines for their operations. The transition to cloud workloads, however, requires a robust data management strategy to avoid potential challenges, such as unforeseen costs, fragmented services, and an overly complex IT landscape. NetApp has positioned Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a solution for enterprises seeking native cloud data storage, claiming it as the only enterprise storage offering built natively on AWS. By adopting the joint solution, some customers have reported operational cost reductions of up to 50 percent. The integration also aims to help improve migration planning and lower the total cost of ownership through integrated data management features. "Customers utilizing Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP can now enjoy the same data efficiency, protection, and automation they trust on-premises," said Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp. "Through our collaboration with AWS, we're making it easier to move critical workloads to the cloud and manage them at scale." Matthew Swinbourne, CTO Cloud Architecture at NetApp Asia Pacific, commented on the expansion of services in the region. "We foresee incredible benefits for Asia Pacific enterprises with the launch of Amazon EVS. The native integration of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP into Amazon EVS elevates the security, efficiency and performance of VMware workloads whilst reducing the TCO for our customers," Swinbourne said. "With this launch, APAC organizations can achieve the flexibility, performance, and cost benefits that they need to accelerate their cloud ambitions." Expanded features NetApp has outlined several new features in support of the integration. These include: Support for using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as external storage for Amazon EVS, allowing VMware administrators to migrate virtual machines to AWS using familiar tools and providing data management functionality to decrease total ownership costs and boost cyber resilience. The migration advisor feature within BlueXP workload factory for AWS, which is now compatible with Amazon EVS workloads for automated virtual machine discovery, storage provisioning, and data store placement. Enhanced disaster recovery for VMware within BlueXP, supporting integration with Amazon EVS and using FSx for ONTAP as a disaster recovery target. This supports both NFS and VMFS datastore formats, ensuring comprehensive recovery scenarios. Additional ransomware protection, including NetApp ONTAP autonomous ransomware protection for FSx for ONTAP and orchestration capabilities in BlueXP ransomware protection service. These features aim to detect ransomware threats in real time and help minimise downtime. Xtravirt, an AWS and NetApp Preferred Partner, welcomed the announcement. Robin Gardner, CCO at Xtravirt, said, "Enabling support for FSx for ONTAP on Amazon EVS gives customers more granular control over the data powering some of their most important workloads. Customers will be able access NetApp's advanced data management functionality to reduce the overhead of managing virtual environments and more efficiently and securely manage hybrid deployments." NetApp also noted that, while it offers autonomous ransomware protection, no ransomware prevention system can provide complete protection, and attacks may still go undetected. However, the company believes its technology forms a useful additional layer of defence for customers overseeing hybrid and public cloud environments. Follow us on: Share on:
Channel Post MEA
26-03-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
NetApp Advances Agentic AI With NVIDIA AI Data Platform
NetApp announced it is advancing the state of the art in agentic AI with intelligent data infrastructure that taps the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. By collaborating with NVIDIA, NetApp is enabling businesses to better leverage their data to fuel AI reasoning inference. In the era of intelligence, businesses need to rethink their data strategies to turn rapidly growing data estates into competitive assets that empower them to agilely navigate their business environment. By adopting an Intelligent Data Infrastructure framework, businesses will be able to operate under a unified vision that integrates metadata cataloging, automation, and hybrid cloud capabilities to eliminate siloes and deliver actionable insights at every stage of the AI pipeline. Together, NetApp ONTAP and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform enable businesses to navigate the era of intelligence by building distributed systems that unlock the full value of business data to fuel data-driven actions. Built on NVIDIA's expertise in AI workflow optimisation, the platform is a customisable reference design for integrating NVIDIA's accelerated computing, networking, and AI software with enterprise storage, transforming data into actionable intelligence. With the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, NetApp customers will be able to connect their data to fuel AI reasoning workloads with agents using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprints and NVIDIA NIM microservices for NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Reason and other models. NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, NVIDIA networking and the NVIDIA Dynamo open-source inference library drive insights in near real time. 'Traditional computing architectures and data management techniques are not up to the task of helping businesses thrive in the AI era,' said Suhail Hasanain, Regional Director for the Middle East and Africa region at NetApp. 'NVIDIA and NetApp are collaborating to give customers the tools they need to strategically unlock their data to drive the next wave of AI applications. By combining the NVIDIA AI Data Platform with the rich and mature data and AI management capabilities and services of NetApp ONTAP, enterprises can more easily bring AI to their data while maintaining security and compliance to achieve their goals of becoming data-driven businesses.' NetApp is supporting the vision behind the NVIDIA AI Data Platform by developing the capabilities businesses need to accelerate AI pipelines, including: Global metadata namespace: Customers will be able to securely discover, manage, and analyse all their data across the hybrid multicloud to enable feature extraction and data classification for AI. Customers will be able to securely discover, manage, and analyse all their data across the hybrid multicloud to enable feature extraction and data classification for AI. Integrated AI data pipeline : Customers can more automatically prepare their unstructured data to use in AI applications by tracking incremental changes, leveraging incredibly efficient replication with NetApp SnapMirror, classifying data, and creating highly compressed vector embeddings to enable semantic searches on data for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) inferencing. : Customers can more automatically prepare their unstructured data to use in AI applications by tracking incremental changes, leveraging incredibly efficient replication with NetApp SnapMirror, classifying data, and creating highly compressed vector embeddings to enable semantic searches on data for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) inferencing. Disaggregated storage architecture: Customers will be able to optimise their network and flash speeds and infrastructure costs to achieve high performance with minimal space and power requirements for compute-intensive AI workloads. NetApp's support of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform builds on the companies' longstanding history of collaboration, including the recent announcement of an advanced generative AI data vision and end-to-end integrated solutions that combine NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing with NetApp intelligent data infrastructure for enterprise RAG to power the future of agentic AI applications. 'Enterprise data is a rich source of information for AI reasoning, but the vast majority of enterprise data is unstructured, making it difficult to extract insights and meaning,' said Kari Briski, Vice President, Generative AI Software for Enterprise at NVIDIA. 'Bringing together NetApp and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform creates a data pipeline that's always on, allowing business data to be readily available to AI agents so they can rapidly access information to make informed decisions.'
