SVC Awards - Virtualization Management Product of the Year NetApp Bolsters Management Capabilities with NetApp OnCommand Supporting customer testimonials: Kia Behnia, Chief Technology Officer at BMC Companies moving from virtualization to cloud computing are finding that management software plays a critical role in delivering the self-service and orchestration capabilities necessary to deliver a flexible, rapidly provisioned, and well-run cloud computing environment. Our partnership and integration with NetApp s storage management solutions enable BMC s Dynamic Business Service Management platform to provision and manage the full stack for cloud and non-cloud services. Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst at ESG "Our research consistently shows that material business process improvements and cost reductions are the easiest way to justify IT investments. The promise of cloud implementations, including private, public, and hybrid approaches, is to deliver on both: making business more agile while making IT more efficient. Thus there are substantial pressure and opportunity for those organizations and cloud service providers to build innovative, economic, and secure infrastructures. Today s NetApp announcements focusing on service automation and analytics are destined to be a cornerstone for any cloud environment because these capabilities along with adjoining partners feature sets help optimize service levels at the lowest possible cost." Linda Dunham, Infrastructure Architect & System Support Manager, Salisbury Hospital Foundation Trust "We were concerned that our OPEX was continuing to rise as our IT infrastructure expanded, so when ANS were able to demonstrate that we would save money by investing in Infrastructure 3.0 it was the perfect fit for the Trust. The ROI for this solution is fantastic, and the huge savings that we have made are obviously hugely welcomed. We have also significantly improved our Disaster Recovery capabilities and that is very important to us." Karen Sage, Vice President, Technology Alliances and Industry Solutions at CA Technologies CA Technologies partnership with NetApp helps joint customers reduce data centre complexity, lower costs, and achieve a more agile IT service delivery model. The integration of our service automation and service assurance solutions with NetApp s storage management solutions enables
customers to accelerate cloud computing-based service deployments through greater visibility, control, and policy-based automation of their virtualized environments. David Lawler, Vice President, Marketing at Cisco Cisco partners closely with industry-leading storage vendors such as NetApp to offer pre-validated data centre design architectures and integrated systems for enterprise customers that are transitioning to a cloud. The FlexPod design architecture combines NetApp storage solutions with Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, and our recently acquired newscale cloud management software to simplify and accelerate the delivery of cloud services for our customers. Robert Boles, Senior Vice President, IT Infrastructure Services at Cognizant At Cognizant, our IT Infrastructure practice provides clients with world-class and innovative data centre solutions that enhance and optimize the data centre of the future. As we help our clients navigate through the complicated evolution of virtual infrastructure and cloud computing, Cognizant is working with industry-leading partners such as NetApp to provide private cloud solutions that deliver cost savings, reliability, and agility. Andre Kiehne, Vice President Cloud Business at Fujitsu IT organizations today require flexible IT environments that allow them to keep pace with the everchanging market. Our partnership with NetApp enables us to deliver trusted cloud solutions and services for our customers, resolving the burden of fixed costs and inflexible infrastructures. Together, we provide innovative solutions that help companies use IT to respond to the dynamic business needs and capitalize on new opportunities for growth. Lauren States, Vice President, CTO Cloud Computing, IBM IBM is making cloud computing a reality for enterprises," said Lauren States, Vice President, CTO Cloud Computing, IBM. IBM delivers a secure scalable infrastructure for private clouds based on deep integration between IBM Tivoli, IBM Storage, and IBM cloud design/delivery services provided by IBM Global Technology Services to offer customers increased IT efficiency and enhance business flexibility. The storage relationship with NetApp on IBM N series helps provide clients IBM storage choices in their cloud deployment. Andy Cadwell, Senior Vice President of Sales, INX Cloud computing is revolutionizing the data centre, creating new efficiencies and increasing business flexibility for companies of all sizes. INX helps enterprise clients accelerate their transition
to private clouds with validated, turnkey designs built on a secure and scalable NetApp storage foundation. INX also offers a range of cloud services based on NetApp technology, including managed and hosted services for development, testing, production, and disaster recovery. Billy Steeghs, Senior Vice President of IT at MDI MDI collaborates with clients to provide greater visibility into their healthcare data so they can control costs. To deliver such cutting-edge healthcare analytics and data management services, MDI relies on a highly capable, robust private cloud platform. Unpredictability is the nature of our business. The Cisco UCS, NetApp, and VMware solution delivers the functionality we require today with multidimensional scalability to accommodate rapidly changing business requirements. Mike Schutz, Senior Director of Windows Server Marketing at Microsoft Corp. We're pleased to work with NetApp on integrating Microsoft System Centre advanced management capabilities with the new NetApp OnCommand. Companies deploying Microsoft private cloud solutions will benefit from combining System Centre, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, and NetApp OnCommand for a common management platform. This integration, combined with turnkey infrastructure solutions such as NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco, facilitates deployment of private cloud solutions for our joint customers. Darby O Neill, Vice President of IT at Princeton Insurance Princeton Insurance is a data-centric company. We continually analyse more than 35 years of data to identify new and emerging exposure issues that, when coupled with changes made by competitors, make it necessary for us to adjust coverage or offer new products on a regular basis. Our systems have to keep pace with those changes. Working with three industry leaders, NetApp, Cisco, and VMware, was a wise choice for us because they provided the most stable, innovative, and cost-effective platform for our private cloud. Since we ve deployed the cloud solution, we ve had the ability to adjust our business solutions based on our business needs real time. Chuck Parker, Chief Commercial Officer, Technicolor "We are pleased to partner with NetApp for our Technicolor MediAssurance service. Technicolor has long been trusted to preserve and protect the valued assets of our content-owner customers, and we needed a storage partner that could help us build a secure, scalable, and flexible service to meet their needs. Our recently announced cloud-based storage service supports an industry shift from physical to digital media, offers pay-as-you-go pricing, and allows our customers to quickly scale capacity up or down in response to changes in demand.
Gary Green, Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances at VMware Together, VMware and NetApp help customers transform IT operations to achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing by simplifying and automating the management of IT services. Traditional management tools and processes, which were designed to handle discrete processes across static computing stacks, cannot keep pace with the demands of cloud computing, where provisioning and capacity are highly dynamic, and configurations are fluid. We believe that the integration of NetApp storage management software with VMware vsphere, vcenter and vcloud solutions will help our joint customers modernize their operations and take the next step in the journey toward a more simplified, agile approach to IT. Bart Falzarano, Chief Information Security Officer at Walz Group The Walz Group has been recognized as one of the fastest growing private firms in the United States, providing critical communications and regulatory compliance solutions across many industries. Seizing opportunity, however, has not been without challenges. Meeting business demands on the company s traditional IT infrastructure meant dedicating more and more resources to daily operations and support. We turned to NetApp, VMware, and Cisco as our partners of choice for providing a robust shared infrastructure for our enterprise private cloud to create innovative products, extensibility to support growth and opportunity, cost efficiencies, and agility to deliver ahead of the competition. Robert Olwig, Vice President, Corporate Business Development at World Wide Technology World Wide Technology assists enterprises, government agencies, and service providers to achieve competitive advantage and speed time to market by implementing cloud computing environments built on a NetApp storage foundation. Working together, World Wide and NetApp help our joint customers transform the way they do the business of IT using cloud technology. Jorge Pazos, Chief Information Officer for City of Melrose "The regionalization of IT services is an initiative being pursued by the City of Melrose as a means to reduce the time and money municipalities spend managing IT and shift the focus from managing infrastructure to consuming IT services. Our first step was to build a private cloud that would provide the flexibility, scalability, and security required to deliver a broad set of services efficiently and cost effectively. We chose Cisco, NetApp, and VMware as the best-in-class shared infrastructure for our cloud, and already we have realized a 40% savings in costs." George L. Reed II, Chief Information Officer of Seven Corners, Inc.
"In our industry, the first company to deliver new services typically captures over 50% of the revenue opportunity. The agility and flexibility we ve gained from moving to a private cloud help us deliver products faster, quickly identify our most productive programs, and rapidly capitalize on successes. Upon project completion, we plan to store 100% of our data on NetApp and deliver all of our IT services based on a shared infrastructure from Cisco, NetApp, and VMware." John George, Senior VP and Chief Information and Innovation Officer, Vangent, Inc. "Our primary focus is on providing information management and business process services that help federal and international governments, higher education institutions, and corporations achieve greater flexibility and efficiency that allows them to be more competitive. To deliver on these capabilities, we turned to NetApp, Cisco and Microsoft to provide a secure and robust shared infrastructure for our enterprise private cloud. The efficiencies we achieve by using the NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco solution enables us to give our customers the performance and flexibility they need at an affordable price, delivering on the promise of cloud computing in a unique way." ###