NetApp unveils Private Storage for AWS

BANGALORE, INDIA: Storage company NetApp unveiled Private Storage for AWS, an enterprise storage solution that utilizes AWS Direct Connect to establish a dedicated network connection from existing infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

With this offering, organizations can now replicate data from on-premise NetApp storage environments to NetApp Private Storage in an AWS Direct Connect facility to leverage on-demand cloud services, says a release.

It allows customers to leverage NetApp Private Storage along with Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) to accomplish big data analysis.

It also enables them to deploy disaster recovery by leveraging Amazon EC2 in failover scenarios; and leverage tiered disk back-up and recovery using Amazon S3.

It brings NFS and CIFS support to AWS cloud infrastructure and support secure synchronous or asynchronous data replication to move data between AWS regions.

"Our work with NetApp provides customers with the performance, security, compliance, and availability benefits of AWS with the high value enterprise offerings customers have come to expect from NetApp," said Terry Wise, head, Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, AWS. "Together, we're enabling more customers to use our on-demand web services with increased confidence for their critical business applications."

"Organizations use the on-demand scalability and reliability of Amazon Web Services as a critical extension to their on-premise IT infrastructure," said Brendon Howe, vice president, Product and Solutions Marketing, NetApp. "NetApp Private Storage for AWS provides customers the ability to leverage infrastructure that spans cloud and internal IT resources. We are committed to helping our customers achieve greater agility for their IT infrastructure."

NetApp Private Storage for AWS is available in North America and will be available in Europe and Asia soon.