Cloud and hosting providers: Are you leveraging public cloud to your own benefit?
SHOUTING: Show me the opportunity. Show me the opportunity. Show me the opportunity. OK, you get the idea-anyway, I probably had you at Shouting. It s here-managed public cloud. Don t believe me? Let me show you the opportunity.
The managed cloud is one of largest growth areas of the managed infrastructure market. Over the next 4 years, industry analysts are projecting a 160% increase in managed cloud services
1, which includes reselling, consulting, and managed services on public cloud resources. This is not a surprising statistic. Public cloud adoption is still growing in large part because it provides the agility and flexibility required for your enterprise customers digital transformation initiatives.
NetApp on Wednesday in the US officially rolled out NetApp Astra, the company’s fully-managed, application-aware data management service targeting Kubernetes workloads in cloud-native and on-premises environments.
NetApp Astra, which was first introduced last year as Project Astra, is solving what has been the critical gap in Kubernetes, which is the need to unify application and data management, said Eric Han, vice president of product management for public cloud services at the storage vendor.
“Kubernetes has already solved the issue of persistent memory in workloads,” Han told CRN. “But once a volume is set, how to manage the application becomes the issue. Until now, customers have been doing it manually, or in multiple piecemeal steps at the infrastructure or application level. There has been no way to do it in a Kubernetes-native way.”
NetApp Astra: NetApp Unveils Unified Kubernetes Application Data Management
‘We’ve turned [Kubernetes management] into a SaaS experience. We manage the data for you on your behalf, giving you the power to pick your own application and your own cloud. We basically become your SRE, your site reliability engineer, your data expert, if you will. The people that make sure your cloud services are up and running,’ says Eric Han, NetApp’s vice president of product management for public cloud services. By Joseph F. Kovar March 10, 2021, 08:00 AM EST
NetApp on Wednesday officially rolled out NetApp Astra, the company’s fully-managed, application-aware data management service targeting Kubernetes workloads in cloud-native and on-premises environments.
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In many ways, 2020 was the year of the cloud: Businesses of all types found that their success in managing the trials of that year depended at least somewhat on the extent to which they were already running key workloads in the cloud, or the speed with which they could make the transition.
Ferguson Enterprises, a Newport News, Va.-based distributor of plumbing, heating, ventilation and air conditioning supplies, made the transition “practically overnight” or, more precisely, over a “week or two” with a “couple of long nights and weekends,” recalled Scott Wright, an enterprise cloud architect for the company, speaking at Microsoft Ignite, the annual conference for Microsoft customers, partners and analysts, happening virtually through March 4.