Q & A
EDITOR ’ S
ISSA WALID , SENIOR MANAGER , PRESALES AND SOLUTIONS ENGINEERING – MIDDLE EAST REGION AT NETAPP
The benefits of moving to the cloud are well understood , and most companies are quickly moving to adopt a cloud strategy . But the challenges associated with moving applications and data to the cloud may delay plans . Most companies face the decision of whether to build new
As cloud adoption continues to expand rapidly , organisations around the world are looking to the cloud to solve a myriad of business challenges .
applications in the cloud , rearchitect existing applications , lift applications with limited or no modification , or not move them at all . Until recently , these decisions were more difficult because adequate cloud storage options were limited . NetApp has changed the game by offering the most feature-rich portfolio of cloud data service offerings across the data fabric . To help organisations build new or migrate existing applications to the cloud , NetApp offers both native storage services and data management appliances . Both are now available on all three of the
largest cloud providers , Microsoft Azure , AWS , and Google Cloud . We have also extended the simplicity and benefits of our cloud-native offerings on the premises with easy consumption offerings .
As cloud adoption continues to expand rapidly , organisations around the world are looking to the cloud to solve a myriad of business challenges . The COVID-19 pandemic has , in fact , accelerated Digital Transformation as organisations raced to both increase efficiency and improve customer experiences . Also , a lot of businesses reported speeding up their Digital Transformation which means that more data than ever before is moving to the cloud or being generated on the cloud . In terms of driving the adoption of cloudbased solutions , it differs per customer and vertical . For some customers , the top driver for public cloud adoption is strategic IT modernisation . For other customers , they are turning to the cloud for more tactical objectives to deliver services more innovatively and to save costs .
It ’ s clear that cloud migration and cloud creation will continue to accelerate , making it crucial for organisations to have the proper cloud strategy and a trusted partner to help them optimise their data for the journey . Such cloud strategy is focused on enabling customers to procure public cloud resources transparently and move workloads from , to , and across clouds ( either public or dedicated ) seamlessly . Channel partners should ensure data is secure in the cloud without sacrificing application performance , Plan backups and Disaster Recovery , increase privacy and compliance and prevent ransomware .
That said , there are many advantages cloud solutions bring to enterprises . One advantage of cloud systems is the ability to spin up new instances quickly . Instead of waiting for physical infrastructure to arrive , the cloud has pre-provisioned infrastructure in the cloud vendor ’ s data centre that has already been delivered , racked , and cabled . A second underappreciated cloud specific benefit is the ability to turn off systems when they are not needed . Importantly , this can be done in two ways : permanently and temporarily . •
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