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NetApp integrates with Microsoft to take SMBs to the cloud
By siliconindia
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Friday, 16 July 2010, 01:12 IST
New Delhi: NetApp, today announced enhanced integration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise-class data protection solutions to cloud service providers by leveraging the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. Although enterprise-class data protection has been too expensive for most small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to implement themselves, NetApp and Microsoft now enable service providers to offer enterprise-class data protection to their SMB customers. Additionally, NetApp announced the availability of new professional service offerings and additional resources and guidance for service providers to build a variety of enterprise-class cloud services.
"SMB customers have many of the same disaster recovery and business continuity requirements as large enterprise organizations, but often times don't have the necessary skill set or budget needed to achieve the desired results," said Laura DuBois, Program Vice President, Storage Software and Solutions, IDC.
The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit provides sample code and guidance for building cloud services powered by Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and the Microsoft System Center Suite. NetApp currently provides storage vendor to integrate seamlessly with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit, enabling service providers to leverage NetApp's industry-leading integrated data protection capabilities such as disaster recovery, clustered failover, and backup and recovery.
"SMBs are demanding enterprise-class disaster recovery solutions, and hosting service providers are in a tremendous position to fill that demand as more SMBs move toward hosted IT services," said John Zanni, General Manager of Worldwide Hosting for the Communications Sector at Microsoft.