Data is the heart of digital revolution

By: Mayank Maheshwari

Business imperatives, growth, cost, risk have remained unchanged except the leaders around the world continue to look technology especially digital technology to achieve their goals. Industry new digital capabilities are being seen as a way to transform themselves for a successful competitive advantage to reach new customers to make their business more efficient. And the heart of all those digital technology revolution is data.

It has become very critical for the organizations to manage data effectively and efficiently because data is being stored into various multiple platforms so to scale with the needs of business and to draw the insight from data, companies are moving towards for better storage solutions.

NetApp and their partners is being assisting customers in speeding their data in a seamless way by enabling to move, manage and protect their data. Data fabric is about data management. The NetApp strategy is to create hybrid data-centric cloud solutions that span from the private to public cloud efficiently. Data and application owners will be able to control security and data mobility using any of the cloud options. This will allow data and applications to be moved and shared uninterrupted across multiple end points.

“Management of digital data is essential for organizations to innovate faster and capture new revenue opportunities in a fast changing technology landscape. NetApp’s Data Fabric vision, solutions and services allow customers to realize the full potential of hybrid cloud, helping them drive speed and scale while balancing cost and risk,” said Lee Caswell, vice president, Product, Solutions and Services Marketing, NetApp

The requirement for the business is to become more competitive which directly links that data needs to be stored and retrieve in a much faster manner which can be utilized in a meaningful way, the SSD technology allows which NetApp offers. Flash is increasingly getting adopted by the customers. Hybrid Flash Array is increasingly getting popular which is being adopted in financial sectors, telecom etc.

It is required from data centre’s to reduce the number of servers and storage capacity required for deployments which should have the simplifying infrastructure. Collaboration of NetApp with Cisco FlexPod enables easy and modernize the company IT, organizations can achieve better business results consolidation of data is required to become more efficient and cost effective. FlexPod has more than 100 pre validated solution platforms this helps the decision making faster for any enterprise.

“Competition for customers is fierce. Requirements for responsiveness, availability and speed have never been higher. In FlexPod, Cisco and NetApp have created the ideal solution to meet these evolving business demands,” said George Kurian, CEO of NetApp. “The capabilities of Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite and NetApp Data Fabric enable customers to seamlessly extend their IT systems from the private cloud to the public cloud, on their terms. Customers can be confident that their investments in FlexPod today will enable their businesses to succeed and evolve with the changing business and IT landscape.”

As the world is moving toward virtualization and data is growing exponentially, the storage vendors around the globe need to take advantage by having the innovative software available to make storage systems easy to manage and scale and also improve storage interface and networking performance for the customers.