NetApp announced new capabilities that support Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation deployments for customers to leverage NetApp solutions to right-size their IT environments to efficiently run VMware workloads at scale.
“NetApp and Broadcom are working together to take the uncertainty out of hybrid cloud environments,” said Jonsi Stefansson, senior vice president and chief technology officer at NetApp. “More than 20,000 customers rely on NetApp to support their VMware workloads. NetApp's continued close collaboration with Broadcom following the acquisition of VMware ensures our solutions seamlessly interoperate so our mutual customers can leverage a single intelligent data infrastructure to operate their VMware workloads more efficiently.”
Key capabilities
The offering claims to offer an expanded support for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) for customers to simplify their VCF hybrid cloud environments by using NetApp ONTAP software for all storage requirements.
It also includes new capabilities for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) to support customers that are extending or migrating their vSphere workloads to the cloud. It also claims to have an enhanced VM optimisation features for NetApp Cloud Insights to optimise virtual environments, including VMware.
“As organisations modernise infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation, they want to know that the services upon which they rely from industry-leaders such as NetApp will continue to work seamlessly and deliver the value they have come to expect,” said Paul Turner, vice president of products, VCF Division at Broadcom. “Having NetApp as a close collaborator helps our mutual customers deploy innovative data and storage services on top of their private cloud platform, and ensure they are getting the most value out of their VMware environments.”
