NetApp and SAP are expanding their long-standing partnership to explore deeper cloud-native integration of NetApp capabilities into SAP Cloud Infrastructure, SAP’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform. The collaboration will focus on integrating NetApp’s file and block storage services into SAP Cloud Infrastructure to support high availability, performance, data protection, and replication across SAP’s global cloud footprint. The companies also plan to explore joint go-to-market initiatives to help customers migrate, modernize, and operate SAP and non-SAP workloads on SAP Cloud Infrastructure while addressing enterprise security and compliance requirements.
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NetApp also plans to evaluate its Object storage technology for potential integration into SAP Cloud Infrastructure through technical validation.“SAP and NetApp share a long-standing commitment to empower the world’s most mission-critical enterprise environments,” said Álvaro Celis, Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial, Partner and Ecosystem Officer at NetApp. “By bringing together SAP Cloud Infrastructure with the NetApp Platform, we can empower customers to build an intelligent data infrastructure that delivers the agility, resilience, performance and security required to take on the most demanding tasks and complex problems across the most demanding environments.” Jonathan Bletscher, SVP, Head of Infrastructure Platform Engineering & Delivery at SAP, said the companies are exploring ways to strengthen the infrastructure and data layer supporting SAP applications, SAP Business AI Platform, and customer workloads.