NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, has been awarded the 2024 Partner of the Year award from Google Cloud in the Storage Infrastructure category for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. For the second consecutive year, NetApp is recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers deploy solutions that allow them to easily migrate and deploy data and workloads on Google Cloud without the need to redesign applications.
“The Google Cloud Partner Awards celebrate the transformative impact that partners have brought to customers,” says Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President, Global Ecosystem and Channels at Google Cloud. “Proud to announce NetApp as the winner of the 2024 Google Cloud Partner Award in recognition of their achievements, which have contributed to the success of their customers last year.”
The Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year award for Storage Infrastructure highlights the role of NetApp’s storage solutions, leaders in both the enterprise and industrial levels, including Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, which helps customers work in their cloud environments with simplified data management, unparalleled performance, and reliable data protection. Built on NetApp® ONTAP®, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes allows users to securely automate demanding workloads, such as AI and cloud-native applications, with just a few clicks, optimizing cloud costs without overprovisioning.
“Alongside Google Cloud, NetApp continues to build its industry-leading storage portfolio with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, providing seamless integration as a Google service developed jointly that supports critical use cases, from workload migration to the Google Cloud platform to running cloud-native applications and empowering transformations like AI,” says Jaime Balañá, Technical Director of NetApp in Ibero-America. “Being named Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Storage for the second consecutive year underscores Google Cloud’s trust in NetApp as an equally committed partner in providing customers with intelligent data infrastructure to help them move quickly in the ever-changing technological and threat landscape.”
Introduced in August 2023 as a managed storage service, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes has been optimized in October 2023 with a Standard service tier, significantly reducing cost/GB while continuing to offer the same multiprotocol file services with fully integrated data protection. This service joins NetApp’s full portfolio of storage and data services on Google Cloud, covering cyber resilience, data protection, and capacity management. It allows enterprise customers to seamlessly extend their most demanding workloads to Google Cloud with the types of services that have been distinctive of data center technologies for years.