NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced the expansion of its decade-long relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help joint customers continuously drive business growth and innovation in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). The signing of a new Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) is based on the commitment to benefit joint customers by accelerating generative AI efforts, simplifying transactions, and delivering value in cloud operations.
A Decade of Fruitful Collaboration
NetApp and AWS have worked together for over a decade to jointly accelerate innovation for thousands of customers worldwide. During that time, NetApp has achieved over a dozen AWS competencies, including competencies in Manufacturing and Industrial Software, Financial Services Technology, and Cloud Operations Software. AWS competencies validate AWS partners with demonstrated technical expertise in AWS and proven success with customers.
Native Storage Services on AWS
NetApp is the only enterprise storage provider with a first-party data storage service natively built on AWS with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that unlocks the best of the cloud for customers by offering the industry-leading data management operating system on AWS.
Joint Innovation to Address Current and Future Challenges
Innovation between NetApp and AWS provides customers with a strong technological foundation for cloud-based data services and operations that prepares them to overcome current and future challenges. NetApp also supports operations for cloud infrastructure environments, including AWS, with CloudOps solutions like Spot by NetApp, NetApp Cloud Insights, and Instaclustr by NetApp.
Benefits for Customers
The expansion of collaboration between NetApp and AWS will benefit customers in three main ways:
- Acceleration of Generative AI Efforts: The SCA will accelerate generative AI efforts, helping customers continuously drive business growth and innovation by delivering data-rich experiences through workload migration and new application deployments on AWS.
- Simplification of Transactions: This SCA will enable increased purchases on AWS Marketplace, especially for NetApp’s CloudOps solutions, to streamline processes for customers.
- Delivery of CloudOps Value: This SCA positions NetApp better as a trusted provider of CloudOps solutions for AWS environments.
NetApp Comment
Ashish Dhawan, Senior Vice President of Cloud Sales at NetApp, commented: “With NetApp’s cloud solutions on AWS, our customers maintain full control over their data across their hybrid cloud environment while benefiting from the scalability, data availability, security, and industry-leading performance of AWS.”
The collaboration between NetApp and AWS continues to evolve to meet the changing needs of customers in the AI and cloud era, providing innovative solutions and high-performance data services.