Transforms IT from a roadblock to an enabler, providing:

• Business agility

• Data control

• Improved security

• Sales alignment

Quantitative benefits include:

• Up to 3000% decrease in time to deliver over traditional IT

• 99.9+% availability

• 30% better capacity utilization

• $3.5M estimated annual savings in hardware, software and support

nCloudNetApp’s self-service, virtual private cloud alternative. End users provision and manage IT systems.

Lengthy IT Project TimelinesThe average time for IT services to be completed at NetApp was three weeks or longer.

Shadow IT Challenges300-500 applications were in use at NetApp. Many were unknown to NetApp IT, which means they were lacking visibility, data control, security and support.

Complexity and RestrictionsIT’s need for consistency and standards meant that services were fraught with restrictions and controls.

• Leverage NetApp Data ONTAP for data control across hybrid cloud resources

• Choice in technologies, applications, and cloud services providers to meet any SLA required by the business

• Automated self-service

• No downtime, ever

• Seamless scale

• Extreme efficiency

Using our purpose-built decision framework, we determined what applications would deliver the greatest business value. This became our cloud migration strategy.

Before Cloud

Step 3: Plan

NetApp Reaches New Heights with CloudFor many organizations, moving to the cloud seems like a steep climb with no end in sight. For NetApp, the journey was full of challenges and opportunities, and has yielded mountains of benefits.

Here’s our story.

Expectations of NetApp IT

by 2017

There is no end to the climb because technologies and cloud capabilities continue to evolve—just like your enterprise. Applying first-hand knowledge, we can guide you on your path to the cloud.

Contact NetApp today.

First we needed to inventory and create a snapshot of applications, technology services and business intelligence being used by the major NetApp lines of business.

Note cloud standings for each:

• In-house

• In the cloud today

• Cloud candidate

Step 1: Discover

Review legal, financial, security, reputation and possible constraints for making a cloud decision across applications and infrastructure.

Step 2: Analyze

Step 4: ExecuteFor our cloud journey, NetApp chose a provider offering a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with:

• Velocity to capability at the lowest cost

• Iterative approach to defining capability and mapping to business needs

• Simplicity and agility of a resource-on-demand model

• Application/workload compatibility

• Secure multi-tenancy, integrated data protection, and storage efficiency built on a NetApp infrastructure

Our Path to the Cloud

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