Welcome to our Xpanse Newsletter for July 2019.
As your trusted data management partner, we want to keep you informed about the world of enterprise data technology, and the great opportunities available to your in-house team.
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The Xpanse Team
NetApp has recently announced the arrival of it's AFF C190, an entry level all flash solution that allows organisations of any size to modernise their IT infrastructure.
NetApp's AFF C190 system is simple, smart, secure and can meet a company’s storage requirements with operational efficiency, data security, and effortless cloud integration at an affordable price.
If you would like any further information, please feel free to email our sales team or speak to your dedicated Xpanse Account Manager.
On April 30th, Xpanse, in partnership with NetApp, held a Cloud Data Agility breakfast session.
Matt Swinbourne (NetApp's Cloud CTO) was the events key speaker. The core messages delivered by Matt focused on the need for businesses to be agile in the way they operate and treat their data, particularly in Cloud adoption. He specifically looked at;
Plan – start with the end in mind.
Adapt – plan failures and re-scoping – be adaptable.
Thrive – new technologies spawn new business models, be ready to embrace them.
Further discussion was held around NetApp's Data Fabric and how it can help businesses enable data agility through freedom of choice, future proofing, efficiency and security that NetApp Data Fabric offers.
NetApp has a range of further information available to you, including;
As always, Xpanse are able to assist you in this journey. Let us discuss with you how we can customise a specific approach to enable a truly agile data environment.
If you'd like any further information, please feel free to email our sales team or speak to your dedicated Xpanse Account Manager.
NetApp has taken its data management software, ONTAP, from version 9.5 to 9.6 with themes surrounding simplicity, productivity, security, data protection, and addressing more customers use cases. This update comes with several features and benefits that now include long term service support: all releases come with three years full support and two year limited support. From a management standpoint, ONTAP has new product names (ONTAP System Manager and Active IQ Unified Manager) as well as a redesigned dashboard for simpler workflows based on RESTful APIs.
ONTAP 9.6 includes the following enhancements:
For further information, please reach out to our Sales Team, or your nominated Xpanse account manager who will be pleased to assist you in discussing the new features & benefits of upgrading.
Also, a reminder for Xpanse IT Infrastructure Management (XITIM) customers - ONTAP upgrades are covered by your XITIM agreement, so please let us know if you would like us to arrange an upgrade for you. If you are not an XITIM customer, and would like to learn more about our XITIM Managed Service Agreements and how they can benefit you, please visit our XITIM Solutions web page here.
Last year NetApp rolled out their first end-to-end NVMe platform with the AFF A800 aimed at large enterprises. Today they are talking all those performance benefits and bringing them to the midrange in the 2U, AFF A320 - the complete NVMe solution for the mass market.
AFF A320 is the latest example of NetApp’s focus towards a modern SAN, solving customers’ business needs and providing investment protection with future-proof products and services.
The AFF A320 system enables customers to:
If you'd like to find out more about the AFF A320 and it's benefits to your storage environment, please feel free to email our sales team or speak to your dedicated Xpanse Account Manager.