Introducing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

as an architect when a new piece of tech comes along sometimes you just can't stop thinking about it or the infinite ways it could possibly be used every thought consumes you in a sort of fantasy configuration a way to take advantage of it to enhance a workload or rethink how you build and manage it unfortunately a product like that doesn't come along that often but mark your calendars folks because today is one of those days [Music] hello everyone and welcome to the channel my name is nick howell and today well today is a big day for years now amazon web services or aws has led the charge in cloud computing innovating across the entire technology ecosystem and enabling companies to build deploy and transition workloads from on-prem data centers to the cloud in some cases they even extend their native services to your facilities without posts and allow you to direct connect your stuff to theirs with dedicated circuits now netapp has been partners collaborators and advocates for aws and their services for a decade or more hell i can remember as far back as 2012 installing ontap in an ec2 instance just to see if it would work and it did for the past few years netapp has made huge strides in developing our own cloud portfolio building a vast powerful suite of products and services that all complement those of aws and empower end users with storage services that they've known and love from netapp for decades to date however these have all been handled independent of one another and while they were tightly integrated they were still managed on separate ends and it certainly enabled that sweet sweet ontap functionality we all know and love but it still proved troublesome for some end users complicated and disconnected management panes different consoles different api endpoints and varying configuration methods have all come with some level of frustration over the years so what if we took our collaboration one step further what if aws adopted ontap as their own service and integrated it with many of their other native offerings making the storage management features and functionality of ontap instantly available to any and all vpcs in any region all while providing support and billing themselves well it has arrived today it gives me great pleasure to welcome ontap to the aws portfolio amazon fsx for netapp ontap is a new storage and data management service that allows you to run fully featured fully managed enterprise grade file systems powered by ontap natively in the cloud for the first time with no upfront commitments or costs and you only pay for the resources you use now while it's sinking in what a big freaking deal that is for the sake of those that have never used or even heard of ontap and are curious as to why this is such a big deal ontap is our proprietary storage os for our all flash and capacity storage systems here at netapp giving you an amazing set of data management features in a highly available configuration and that's granted us the title of number one storage operating system for many years now infrastructure admins and storage engineers have enjoyed and trusted ontap being the foundation of their data centers for decades with things like multi-protocol access point in time snapshots for backups and replication in sync for mirroring and cloning that makes it super simple to run and manage all of your file and application data ontap even has a complete api to integrate with the user's tools of choice allowing you to standardize workflows and processes for managing storage built around ontap's admin interfaces if you wanted to move it to the cloud previously you certainly could but it would require some level of reconfiguration of your applications tools and workflows to take advantage of other native services in aws and usually ended up being a non-starter for most customers not to mention the efficiencies you would lose with our world-class deduplication and compression tech with amazon fsx for netapp ontap that same feature set is available to you natively in aws as a complete managed service you can migrate on-prem applications using ontap to aws without having to modify code or how you manage your data you can even extend your existing ontap footprint on prem into the cloud with things like snapmirror cascade your backups with snapvault or even completely move entire divisions to aws using the same data and management methods you would have used on-prem or with a secondary data center now i want you to imagine for a second if you could completely evacuate that expensive colo facility and make aws your secondary site what if you could move all of your dev tests to aws and spin up spin down resources and automated batch runs using synced production data with snapmirror and all you had to do was pay a monthly bill instead of hosting racks of gear instead of spending six months racking stacking and configuring gear simply connect cloud manager to your aws account and set up and manage replication right from there you can also turn on many of our additional services such as cloud insights and cloud datasets to monitor and scan your data whether it's on-prem or in the cloud or both this product has so much potential for our mutual aws and netapp customers it's one of the most exciting launches i've had the privilege of being a part of and i can't wait to see what you all build with it for more information check out aws storage day and head over to the link in the description below to take it for a test drive take care [Music]

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Id: 7Btb6QnSXaY

Length: 5min 39sec (339 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 02 2021