netapp has announced a new service focused on facilitating, accelerating and automating the control of data and storage in various clouds. Is about BlueXPa unified point of control that offers a single environment for the management of hybrid multicloud storage and information services, both in cloud and local environments.
With NetApp BlueXP, the company aims to help its customers simplify and automate critical operations on premises and in the public cloud, with the goal of improving the customer experience and optimizing the impact these operations have on their business.
This tool allows users to manage the data they have stored in different types and cloud services. Even in local unified storage and in own native spaces combined with public cloud providers. It does this by offering an AIOps-powered experience, plus built-in data services capabilities that automate operations, discover, protect, govern, and optimize data. It also allows you to do the same with the infrastructure, as well as the business processes that support it. To do this, it offers various flexible consumption options.
Among the features offered by NetApp BlueXP is the unified storage management. The global control offered by BlueXP, in the Software as a Service mode, provides a single point of visibility and management, which brings together a wide variety of hybrid multicloud environments. Provides the ability to manage NetApp AFF, FAS, StorageGRID, and E-Series local storage. Also the major clouds, with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files, Google Cloud Volumes service, and Cloud Volumes ONTPA. All from a single console.
The service also has AIOPs-driven state control. Thanks to automation driven by Artificial Intelligence and/or machine learning, it manages to reduce the demand for manual tasks, resource loads and the risk profile. Plus, AI-powered health and wellness monitoring not only alerts you to problems with workloads and infrastructure. It also offers proactive guides to avoid problematic scenarios. BlueXP integrates NetApp Active IQ technology for always-on hybrid multicloud environment telemetry.
BlueXP also has a unified control system for data protection and security, which it does with a built-in zero-trust model. It also incorporates a single ransomware dashboard, which offers visibility into the company’s ransomware vulnerabilities, and has the ability to fix many of the errors that allow it with a single click.
The dashboard also provides a complete view of the status of everything related to the multicloud environment, allowing you to monitor both compliance and permissions. The AI and machine learning function audits both the level of user activity and that of the data, in addition to detecting anomalies at the moment and taking the planned measures for these cases.
On the other hand, BlueXP incorporates data engines to copy, synchronize, cache and stack data in the main public clouds, as well as in the data center, in a simple way. To achieve this, thanks to these engines, you just have to drag the data and drop it at the point where you want it to be stored. The service provides a security and efficiency system, which ensures that the data is protected in the transfer between storage spaces, in addition to saving it in the option with the lowest price available.
Like other software-as-a-service tools, BlueXP allows customers to pay only for the features they need, so BlueXP usage pricing is calculated based on usage. To make it easier for customers to manage and control their consumption data, as well as the cloud storage space they use, BlueXP integrates Keystone, NetApp’s Storage as a Service (STaaS) offering.
NetApp BlueXP is the management system indicated for the management of NetApp ONTAP, the company’s data management service for local and cloud, which has just announced its latest version. It offers a score of new features, including a new tamper-proof capture feature and AIOps-powered anti-ransomware protection. With this, ONTAP improves the security of data storage. In addition, an expansion of NetApp’s unified multiprotocol technology enables concurrent NAS and S3 file access to the same data. This increases ONTAP’s flexibility as a repository for the massive data sides used in AI and machine learning sources.
George Kurian, CEO of NetApphas pointed out that «With the launch of BlueXP, NetApp is uniquely positioned to help organizations deliver on the promise of the cloud, turning infrastructure, applications, and data into true business assets. By taking an evolved cloud approach, customers can integrate cloud into their architecture and operations, remove complexity and increase the speed of innovation to quickly achieve business-critical results.«.
