NetApp HCI

NetApp HCI sales are soaring as the platform is winning more multimillion-dollar deals this year. The enterprise-centric platform is based on SolidFire and its Element software, which allows for workload protection for applications. NetApp HCI lets users consume public cloud services on-premises while also offering the flexibility of scaling compute or storage nodes independently, which allows customers to decouple compute and storage capacity.

The platform includes NetApp’s Data Fabric unified suite of data services that provides consistent data services across on-premises, private cloud and public cloud platforms. The company has created a slew of strategic partnerships around HCI including with Amazon, Google, Veeam and VMware.

NetApp recently launched a service which automates the deployment of Kubernetes within a its HCI platform. NetApp’s Kubernetes Service on HCI not only automates the deployment of Kubernetes but includes an application orchestration tool and access to the company’s application marketplace.