NetApp: Showing Off Cloud ONTAP And Its New SteelStore
NetApp used AWS re:Invent to unveil Nov. 13 as the day its Cloud ONTAP will be available in the AWS Marketplace as two Amazon Machine Image (AMI) options, including Cloud ONTAP Explore and Cloud ONTAP Standard. Cloud ONTAP also is available as a six-month subscription option from NetApp.
NetApp also showed off its latest toy, the NetApp SteelStore cloud-integrated backup and archiving appliance it acquired this month from Riverbed, which lets customers securely back up and recover business data on AWS. The NetApp SteelStore appliance also will support StorageGRID Webscale, NetApp’s scalable, software-defined object storage solution.