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Schneider Electric and NetApp
collaborate to revolutionise
hybrid cloud infrastructure
chneider Electric has announced
its collaboration with NetApp
to deliver the pre-validated
Optimized Edge for NetApp
HCI solution, which is built on NetApp’s
hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform
and designed for enterprise, remote/branch
offices and small to medium-sized business
(SMB) spaces.
Optimized Edge for NetApp HCI combines
Edge Computing infrastructure with an
open and scalable on-premise hybrid cloud
infrastructure to revolutionise the private
cloud into a deployable region of customers’
multi-cloud.
The solution is a compatible physical
infrastructure solution that is integrated,
pre-engineered and pre-validated to help
organisations of all sizes reduce deployment
time, accelerate time to market and minimise
on-site and remote management.
“As enterprises transform to meet the
needs of today’s digitally-driven world,
they need the compute infrastructure
necessary to support IoT applications with
improved bandwidth, lower latency and peak
performance,” said Jim Simonelli, Senior
Vice President, Emerging Businesses, Secure
Power Division, Schneider Electric.
“Together, Schneider Electric and NetApp
are innovating the traditional approach
to hybrid cloud infrastructure to help
businesses drive operational efficiencies,
reduce costs and improve efficiency across
the enterprise.”
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Enterprise-scale hybrid cloud
capabilities take HCI to the next level
The solution offers enterprise-scale hybrid
cloud capabilities that go beyond first-
generation HCI limitations to help businesses
transform their data centres and empower
them to drive efficiencies while reducing
operating costs. The latest collaboration
between Schneider Electric and NetApp
provides joint customers with purpose-
built solutions that connect disparate data
management and storage resources to drive
Digital Transformation.
The co-innovated Optimized Edge for
NetApp HCI solution allows customers to
optimise and run multiple applications with
guaranteed on-premise performance and
independent scaling of both compute and
storage resources. With Optimized Edge
for NetApp HCI, customers can access data
from any public, private or hybrid cloud and
streamline data management between on-
premise and cloud storage.
Additional benefits include:
Flexibility to serve as a solution for
any business, from enterprises to small
businesses and remote offices, with
efficient deployment of a complete,
pretested, highly optimised, energy-
efficient IT solution. It works at any scale
to help reduce deployment time and
accelerate time-to-market.
Simplicity delivered with vendor-neutral
visibility and data-driven insights
across devices. Optimized Edge for
NetApp HCI is an enterprise-scale, hyper
converged infrastructure that increases
business agility by delivering predictable
performance and simplified operations on
a flexible and efficient cloud architecture.
Differentiation is delivered with expert
service and remote monitoring and
troubleshooting support. Optimized Edge
for NetApp HCI differs from existing
market definitions and is architected
with independent compute, storage
and networking, allowing customers
to scale based on their disaggregated
end-user business demands rather than
architectural limitations. In addition, the
solution’s efficient storage architecture is
built from the ground-up to prevent data
locality issues, stranding of resources and
management overhead while providing
industry-leading guaranteed performance,
data duplication and data compression.
“Customers today need capabilities that
will simplify infrastructure management and
accelerate applications at the Edge to unlock
the value of their data and provide hybrid,
multi-cloud solutions that drive efficiencies
and reduce cost,” said Brett Roscoe, Vice
President, Product Management, Cloud
Infrastructure business unit, NetApp.
“NetApp and Schneider Electric are bringing
together our technology expertise to
deliver Optimized Edge solutions that go
beyond traditional hybrid cloud offerings
to empower businesses to achieve new
competitive advantages.”
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