Infographic 4 Ways to Optimize Your Cloud Strategy
By Insight Editor / 24 Jun 2022 / Topics: Cloud Cloud cost optimization DevOps Disaster Recovery (DR)
When it comes to cloud strategy, optimization is key to cost savings, better security and increased storage performance. Whether you're at the beginning or final stages of your cloud journey, view this infographic to learn about four ways to optimize your cloud strategy, save money and reduce complexity.
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4 Ways to Optimize Your Cloud Strategy
With NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud
Whether you’re at the beginning of your cloud journey or ready to embrace cloud 3.0, extending your workloads to the cloud offers multiple benefits over legacy infrastructure, including reduced costs, better security and increased storage performance.
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
helps speed up and simplify your cloud migration — leveraging a virtual machine-based storage operating system to run traditional and cloud-native applications anywhere — without the need to change how data is managed.
Combined with the power of Google Cloud,
NetApp® Cloud Volumes ONTAP gives you an easier way to optimize cloud costs and performance while improving security, data protection, and compliance for a range of file and block storage requirements.
#1 Build out your hybrid cloud.
A modern hybrid cloud serves as the foundation for Zero Trust security, cyber resilience, and better control over data and IT operations. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP delivers self-service cloud storage with built-in solutions for data protection and efficiency.
- Unified block and file sharing
- Disaster recovery for cloud data
#2 Lift and shift enterprise apps to the cloud.
Shifting core business applications such as Oracle®, SAP® or Windows Server® to the cloud can improve performance and reduce costs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers a faster, easier way to migrate mission-critical operations without the need to rearchitect.
- Greater agility and faster time to market
- No need for hardware ownership
- Move from CapEx to OpEx
#3 Maximize DevOps and dev/test.
Thanks to industry-leading data management features and instant provisioning capabilities, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides cost-effective infrastructure services needed to support modern DevOps and dev/test.
- Continuous integration/ continuous delivery with Jenkins, Bitbucket and GitLab
- Persistent data for cloud-native apps through Anthos, GKE, Kubernetes, OpenShift® and Rancher®
#4 Optimize backup and recovery.
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP leverages highly efficient data replication, built-in storage efficiencies and non-disruptive validation to deliver comprehensive cloud-based disaster recovery for all on-premises data.
- Cross-region or cross-cloud disaster recovery
- In-cloud backup with object storage
- Multiple backups for long-term retention
- File-level restoration capabilities
Insight is your strategic partner with expertise across the entire NetApp portfolio
We’ll help you eliminate the complexity of migrating and managing enterprise workloads, and centralize control of your data wherever it resides.
Source:
NetApp. (2022). Business Examples for Why NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud.
