NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, announced an expanded collaboration with Red Hat, the world’s leading open source solutions provider, to deliver new solutions to streamline and accelerate the development and management of enterprise applications in virtual environments. The collaboration brings together NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure and Red Hat’s OpenShift, providing customers with the flexibility to more seamlessly manage their virtual environments across on-premise and hybrid multicloud environments.
Today’s enterprises are increasingly being challenged to innovate quickly and develop new, differentiated enterprise applications that simplify existing operations or deliver better outcomes for their customers. Red Hat’s OpenShift is the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform, powered by Kubernetes, and trusted by more than half of the top 25 Fortune Global 500 companies to streamline the application lifecycle and drive AI innovation. NetApp is expanding its collaboration with Red Hat to power intelligent data infrastructure, helping customers reduce costs and increase flexibility for their Red Hat OpenShift environments as they develop, manage, secure, and protect containerized workloads and virtualized applications on Kubernetes.
“Today’s technology environment is constantly changing, and businesses need the flexibility and agility to adapt and develop winning strategies. Developing, deploying and managing modern enterprise applications requires high-performance, secure and persistent flash storage and advanced data management capabilities,” said Jónsi Stefansson, senior vice president and chief technology officer, NetApp. “The combination of NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift will enable customers to more simply and quickly deploy and manage their virtual environments, while providing performance, mobility and security for their critical data managed by Red Hat OpenShift AI.”
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In support of its expanding collaboration with Red Hat, NetApp announced new capabilities that provide more flexibility to how customers, especially those leveraging Red Hat’s OpenShift, can deploy and manage their virtual environments, including:
- Trident: Trident’s Container Storage Interface (CSI) integration gives Red Hat customers running Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization direct and simplified access to NetApp ONTAP® advanced replication and disaster recovery software. This allows Red Hat OpenShift operations and DevOps teams to use existing, familiar management interfaces and incorporate ONTAP capabilities into their existing workflows. They also benefit from high-performance all-flash storage that remains persistent as virtual machines and containers are created, modified, and deleted. NetApp is offering a new version of Trident at no extra cost that includes integrated protection, migration, and disaster recovery capabilities. In addition, NetApp is expanding support for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.
- Cisco Validated Design for FlexPod for Red Hat NetApp has released a new validated design for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and OpenShift AI deployments on Cisco’s FlexPod integrated infrastructure solution, providing customers with greater confidence that their Red Hat virtualized modern AI workloads will run smoothly through a single support and delivery point, leveraging virtualization and container management, network, server, and storage capabilities .
- Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes: New integration with NetApp Volumes gives customers the option to run containerized workloads using first-party storage services on Google Cloud, increasing the flexibility to leverage persistent enterprise storage powered by NetApp ONTAP. With Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated, enterprises get a fully managed application platform with expert support and the assurance that their clusters will perform as expected. This enables customers to migrate Red Hat OpenShift workloads to Google Cloud and leverage the intelligent data infrastructure capabilities of NetApp ONTAP.
“We believe open source software helps organizations access the latest features and capabilities to operate their IT environments,” said Stephanie Kilas, senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat. “Collaboration is at the core of the open source philosophy. In that spirit, our expanded collaboration with NetApp provides customers with the flexibility they need to drive innovation in virtualized environments. NetApp‘s Intelligent Data Infrastructure provides Red Hat OpenShift customers with a robust foundation to further modernize and secure applications deployed virtualized and running in containers on Kubernetes.”
SOURCE: BusinessWire