INC Picks NetApp Data ONTAP As #1 Storage Solution For Cloud Infrastructure.

March 2014

NetApp Inc. has another cap in its hat to show off to prospective cloud solution customers with regards to its pioneer position in the cloud infrastructure solutions space. This talking point comes in the form of IDC’s biannual Storage User Demand Study, which ranks this provider of storage systems and data management solutions, first among its peers and competition for having shipped out the most sought after cloud storage solution “NetApp® Data ONTAP software”. Readers should note that this IDC ranking is in context to specific storage solutions which were deployed by enterprises to establish cloud infrastructure in the 2012 timeframe and were published in middle of December 2013.

NetApp Inc has been able to push its way up to the pole position thanks to its robust Data ONTAP® operating system which has been positioned by NetApp as a universal data platform. Thanks to this interoperable platform, the storage solutions provider is able to “dynamic data portability”. It is this stand out feature that allows end customers the flexibility to pick and choose their preferred solution sets for establishing their private cloud infrastructure and public cloud setup which makes the cloud solutions offered by NetApp Inc a hot favourite among CTO and IT head honchos.

IDC research director Natalya Yezhkova has highlighted the top business and technical needs that cloud customers are demanding from their solution vendors in these following words, “Our survey indicates end users adopting variety of cloud storage services to optimize and expand their storage environments. Participation in building cloud infrastructures is an essential opportunity for storage system suppliers, but it also requires innovation in product and solution designs to satisfy customer needs, which are very different from traditional storage architectures.”