Behind the Scenes Episode 385: Introducing SnapCenter 5.0

Welcome to the Episode 385, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” SnapCenter is NetApp's flagship application driven backup and restore offering that provides data protection for databases such as SQL, Oracle, SAP and more. The latest release of SnapCenter also provides better cloud integration, including support for volumes …

Behind the Scenes Episode 384: Managed cloud on NetApp by Opti9Tech

Welcome to the Episode 384, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” NetApp's ONTAP software design - with its multi-tenant Storage Virtual Machines, nondisruptive operations, integrated backup and replication, scale out approach - lends itself well to cloud deployments. Opti9Tech understands this, which is why, as a managed cloud …

Behind the Scenes Episode 383: Using Databases on Amazon FSxN for ONTAP

Welcome to the Episode 383, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” Databases traditionally are run in on-premises data centers, but as they scale larger and larger and require more performance, admins need to start evaluating whether to purchase new hardware to manage or move to a lease-based model …

Behind the Scenes Episode 382: Electronic Design Automation 101 w/ Michael Johnson

Welcome to the Episode 382, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” Ever wonder how the chips in your phones, TVs, cars and appliances are made? Well, a lot goes into those and in this episode, NetApp's resident Electronic Design Automation expert Michael Johnson tells us about the processes, …

Behind the Scenes Episode 381: What’s New in NetApp ONTAP 9.14.1

Welcome to the Episode 381, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” Another fall brings another new ONTAP release here at NetApp and this one is chock full of new features to better improve your NetApp experience. Keith Aasen joins us to break it all down and explain what's …

Behind the Scenes Episode 380: NetApp in the Gaming Industry with Justin Monast (former Naughty Dog)

Welcome to the Episode 380, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” NetApp ONTAP offers a wide range of features for enterprise workloads that boost performance, disaster protection, resiliency and much more. Many industries rely on that broad feature set for their most important business use cases, including the …

Behind the Scenes Episode 313: Autonomous SAN with Broadcom and NetApp

Welcome to the Episode 313, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, AJ Casamento (aj.casamento@broadcom.com) and Ant Tyrell (anthony.tyrell@netapp.com) join us to discuss how Broadcom and NetApp are changing the way enterprise SAN remediates issues and adjusts for performance changes with autonomous SAN. For more information: https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/san-storage-area-network/ https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/san-storage-area-network/documentation/ …

Behind the Scenes Episode 312: NFS over RDMA – NetApp ONTAP 9.10.1

Welcome to the Episode 312, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, NetApp TME David Arnette (@daveA_netapp) joins us to discuss the new NFS over RDMA feature in NetApp ONTAP 9.10.1 and how it boosts performance for AI, ML and other HPC workloads. Other resources: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/pdfs/sidebar/Manage_NFS_over_RDMA.pdf Podcast Transcriptions …

Behind the Scenes Episode 311: Introducing the NetApp AFF A900

Welcome to the Episode 311, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Cheryl George and Chris Lueth join us to discuss the latest addition to the NetApp ONTAP platform portfolio, the AFF A900! Joining us: Cheryl George, NetApp Outbound PM (cheryl.george@netapp.com) Chris Lueth, NetApp Principal TME - Hardware …

How pNFS could benefit cloud architecture

Yesterday, I was speaking with a customer who is a cloud provider. They were discussing how to use NFSv4 with clustered Data ONTAP for one of their customers. As we were talking, I brought up pNFS and its capabilities. They were genuinely excited about what pNFS could do for their particular use case.