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IT is in a state of transition – how do you win during these challenges and navigate these changes?
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Data Definer
Q2: A lack of IT agility can stop growth dead in its tracks, but so can a business that fails to see IT as a strategic partner. How do NetApp and partner solutions help address these challenges?
Adam J. Bergh
Agility with NetApp and FlexPod solutions is a key differentiation for me when talking storage and DC solutions with my clients. Agility is a requirement today and not just a nice to have.
Data Definer
Agreed @ajbergh -- Innovation is about using the right tool in the right way at the right time to solve a problem. And that will usually involve IT. You can’t say IT is just about keeping the lights on!
Chris Maki
@ajbergh @NetAppGeek Lets not forget to mention agility's close cousin, flexibility. The ability for a solution to check multiple boxes is also key.
Kailas Jawadekar
customers, more than ever, are asking for validated and tested cloud infrastructure configurations to help them easily and reliably deploy cloud solutions.
Dan C. Barber
@KailasJawadekar agreed. time to delivery is key for customers
Kailas Jawadekar
With this goal in mind, we have worked with Netapp and Cisco to developCisco Validated Design (CVD) based on Citrix CloudPlatform running a FlexPod infrastructure
Nick Howell
It's mostly legacy applications that stop growth, not storage. The ability for NetApp to grow storage infrastructure without downtime is huge, and surveys show that NetApp and our partners are the best at being helpful with transitions.
Citrix Cloud
NetApps Virtual Storage Console integrates with @Citrix #CloudPlatform for deep storage integration
Ling Wang
NetApp's storage solutions provide great flexibility and agility such as nondisruptive scalability, capability to connect to hybrid cloud, and flash technology that can be either hybrid or all-flash.
Adam J. Bergh
With NetApp CDoT I have the ultimate agility: Complete non-disruptive operations, near unlimited scalability, and all protocols at my disposal. I call it "no compromises" storage.
Kailas Jawadekar
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Dan C. Barber
@ajbergh too many all-flash solutions don't have all-protocols; have to have both performance and flexibility
Michael Cade
Agility is key for end users and working with NetApp Storage Solutions we know that NetApp will always be working with best in class tech to achieve this agile approach
John Furrier
@MichaelCade1 Agile is key but having a relevant solution is IT's goal..classic cost of ownership argument comes into play here. Shark fin or ice berg pick your meme; total cost of ownership matters
Dan C. Barber
@MichaelCade1 @furrier and TCO is not just CapEx and OpEx but also personellEx—is that a word?
Dan C. Barber
@netapp provides customers consistency across time, too, decreasing TCO
Crowd Captain
@dancbarber recruiting a #devops staff who can take agile and architect storage to be very strong for "up the stack" apps
Data Definer
What challenges do businesses today face in data storage? Which of these challenges are the most intimidating for customers?
John Furrier
one thing we are seeing is the notion of hybrid storage where speed is balanced by cost
Ling Wang
Economic uncertainty and budget challenges; Pressures to enable business growth initiatives; Rapid pace of technology evolution and data growth.
Adam J. Bergh
There are a LOT of storage choices out there today: SSD, SAS, SATA etc... sizing storage types for your workloads today is very challenging.
John Furrier
@ajbergh great point by Adam bc workload focus is a key driver in identifying the opportunities hence overcoming the challenges
Kailas Jawadekar
One thing we have seen is customers asking for storage that supports traditional scale-up architectures to support traditional apps as well scale-out architectures to support cloud-native apps.
Jesse Anderson
Sizing and speed. Finding a balance between traditional spindles and flash drives. Keeping business needs in mind while trying to give them a benefit.
Kailas Jawadekar
Yup. flexibility to support a broad array of workloads.
Adam J. Bergh
I have clients asking for all-flash arrays who don't need it, and clients who need it don't think they can afford all-SSD.
Nick Howell
The challenges aren't really new or groundbreaking, other than the desire to move to hybrid/public cloud platforms. So many new startups both innovate as well as muddy the waters, which usually confuses customers more than helps.
vaughn stewart
"asking for all flash but don't need it" is an antiquated perspective.
John Furrier
@datacenterdude I don't see all flash arrays in short term being the answer bc iops, throughput, and cost are the key balancing variables in sizing storage solutions.. no one bullet can nail this right now
Michael Cade
Buzz words are massive still within IT and always will, Flash, Cloud etc its an end user fashion parade.
vaughn stewart
All flash platforms are available today for the price of disk. Why would one want to wrestle with disk?
John Furrier
@vStewed one thing that is awesome is the cost reduction in the "media" itself which in med/long term takes that objection off the table
vaughn stewart
to clarify - all flash at the price of disk for tier-1 applications and virtual infrastructures. Tier-2 is a not-so-distant future.
vaughn stewart
This goes back to @netappgeek's question. Whats your data challenge? part of it is performance, another operational scaling. All flash solves both.
John Furrier
@vStewed scaling is key and hitting the workload objectives is critical.. great point
Adam J. Bergh
@vStewed We get Pure's value prop is. However, flexibility means having a single cluster where I can put 1PB on SATA of archive data, have an SSD tier for that SQL DB, and have another tier 2 with SAS with a cache layer.
Adam J. Bergh
@vStewed Pure just has a hammer so everything has to be a nail. NetApp has the full tool belt as you well know.
Annalisa Camarillo
@ajbergh I agree. Here's another analogy: Pure is just shrimp in a NetApp blue ocean.
jamierterrell
I think cost and complicity of managing the SAN environment.
Data Definer
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John Furrier
flash is hot right now public mkt's interesting and private markets are spawning new startups