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NetApp Gets Into The MSP Game Via Spot, CloudJumper
Joseph F. Kovar
NetApp has been taking a cloud-first approach by tying its cloud infrastructure technologies to Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform, Jeff Treuhaft, general manager of Spot PC, tells CRN. And that approach, he says, fits the needs of MSPs who have already engaged with Spot and CloudJumper technologies.
So what’s next? What are some things that you’re looking at in terms of future developments for your MSP channel?
We’re making some exciting inroads. Some of it is partnering with Microsoft and really taking the road map of investments they’re making with Azure Virtual Desktop the Windows 365 Cloud PC. And then some of it is responding to the opportunities we’re seeing in the marketplace. So in technical computing, where GPUs are involved, a lot of that is around protocol acceleration and making sure you’ve got great data caching so that the interactivity of an Autodesk Revit experience, the fidelity of that, stays really high for the users. So we’re spending some time on that. Applications are always a challenge, so we’re spending a lot of time on the tooling behind how to efficiently manage a growing number of applications, building an application library so that you don’t have to start from day zero, or less than day zero, every time you are looking to add a client and their application stack. But a very large part of what we’re working on is around security and compliance. And that compliance in particular is of great interest to a lot of customers that the MSPs deal with. And whether a customer is a medical office or a law firm, or if they’ve got any government-related work, they’re looking for specific things that keep them in compliance as they shift to a fully virtual model. And so that’s where we’re spending our time.
