The collaboration between NetApp and Red Hat would allow the development of enterprise software applications in cloud environments more securely and efficiently
NetApp, the leading network storage products & systems company, has expanded the collaboration with Red Hat to offer new solutions to streamline and accelerate enterprise application development and management in virtual environments.
By uniting NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift, this collaboration offers customers more flexibility to manage their virtualised environments more seamlessly on-premises and in the hybrid multicloud.
NetApp is expanding its work with Red Hat to deliver enhancements to its intelligent data infrastructure to reduce costs and increase the flexibility of Red Hat OpenShift environments as customers develop, manage, secure and protect Kubernetes containerised workloads and virtualised applications.
Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes and trusted by thousands of companies, including more than half of the top 25 Global Fortune 500, to help streamline application lifecycles and drive innovation for AI.
Developing, deploying, and managing modern enterprise applications requires high-performance and secure, persistent flash storage and advanced data management capabilities.
Jonsi Stefansson
Senior VP & CTO
NetApp
Jonsi Stefansson, Senior VP & Chief Technology Officer, NetApp, says, “Developing, deploying, and managing modern enterprise applications requires high-performance and secure, persistent flash storage and advanced data management capabilities.”
“NetApp intelligent data infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift makes it simpler and faster for customers to adopt and manage their virtualised environments, as well as deliver performance, mobility and security for critical data managed on Red Hat OpenShift AI,” elaborated Stefansson,” elaborates Stefansson.
Stefanie Chiras, Senior VP, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat, says, “At the core of the open-source philosophy is collaboration, and in that spirit, we’re expanding our collaboration with NetApp to help empower customers with the flexibility they need to drive innovation in their virtualised environments.”
At the core of the open-source philosophy is collaboration, and in that spirit, we’re expanding our collaboration with NetApp to help empower customers with the flexibility they need to drive innovation in their virtualised environments.
Stefanie Chiras
Senior VP, Partner Ecosystem Success
Red Hat
“Intelligent data infrastructure from NetApp provides a solid foundation for Red Hat OpenShift customers to further modernise and protect the applications running in their virtual deployments and Kubernetes containers,” adds Chiras.
To support the expanded collaboration with Red Hat, NetApp is announcing new capabilities that give customers more flexibility in how they deploy and manage virtual environments, especially as they leverage Red Hat OpenShift, including:
· Trident: The container storage interface (CSI) integration for Trident provides Red Hat customers running Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation direct and simplified access to NetApp ONTAP® advanced replication and disaster recovery software. This allows Red Hat OpenShift operations teams and DevOps teams to use their existing familiar management interfaces and pull ONTAP functionality into their existing workflows, while also leveraging high-performance, all-flash storage that maintains persistence even as virtual machines or containers are created, modified, or removed. NetApp is releasing a new version of Trident that includes integrated protection, migration, and disaster recovery capabilities at no additional cost. In addition, it extends support for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.
· Cisco FlexPod validated designs for Red Hat: NetApp has released new validated designs for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation and Red Hat OpenShift AI deployments on its Cisco FlexPod converged infrastructure solution. This gives customers greater confidence that their Red Hat virtualised and modern AI workloads can run smoothly through a single point of support and delivery as they leverage virtualisation and container management, network, server and storage functionality.
· Red Hat OpenShift dedicated with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes on Google Cloud: A new integration with NetApp Volumes gives customers the option to use a first-party storage service in Google Cloud to run their containerised workloads, giving them increased flexibility to leverage persistent enterprise storage built on NetApp ONTAP. With Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated enterprises have a fully managed application platform to help ensure their clusters work as expected with expert support. Now, customers have a supported way to move Red Hat OpenShift workloads to Google Cloud and benefit from NetApp ONTAP intelligent data infrastructure capabilities.
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