GEC NEWS WIRENetApp ushered in the era of simplified data management at its founding 25 years ago. Today, it enables organizations to unleash the full value of their data for competitive advantage. NetApp is included as a key player by IDC for its ability to provide hybrid cloud data services. Specifically, IDC called out the NetApp Data Fabric strategy, which provides consistent and integrated services that deliver data visibility and insights, data access and control, and data protection and security.
“Successful digital organizations exploit data insights to deliver personalized value services, optimize the customer experience, explore new opportunities, and reduce the overall cost of doing business,” said Laura DuBois, Group Vice President, Enterprise Storage, Servers and Infrastructure Software, at IDC.
“Data is the lifeblood of every organization, and today’s leaders are under tremendous pressure to harness the potential of that data to create new value—with limited time, skills, and budget,” said Jean English, Chief Marketing Officer for NetApp.
NetApp customer Polaris Alpha is a data visionary whose team, including 400+ software developers, is key to making the world safer. The company undertook an ambitious transformation to embrace a multimodal approach that required modernizing every aspect of their enterprise IT. They quickly began transitioning from monolithic applications to cloud-native containerized technologies. Rapid IT changes resulted in 10% monthly growth in storage requirements, which increased latency and hampered productivity. A new converged infrastructure solution provided by NetApp and partners Cisco and Flair Data Systems delivered the agility they needed to accelerate time to market.
“Our credibility is our competitive advantage. Being able to deliver when we say we will makes a big difference to our credibility and relationships with our customers, who use our systems to visualize and share massive amounts of data in support of critical decision-making for U.S. national security across air, sea, ground, cyber, and space operations,” said David Coker, Senior Vice President of Information Systems at Polaris Alpha.
