NetApp and Simplify IT

Cloud Services
Cloud’s full potential is waiting to be unleashed. That’s where we come in. Simplify your cloud management landscape while unlocking the speed, efficiency, and flexibility to shift focus from administration to innovation.

Hybrid Cloud
Allow your applications and components to interoperate in a borderless world. And empower your data to move around with the unhindered ease of an experienced diplomat. Where you go with your newfound agility is up to you.

Data Storage
Last year, digital adoption jumped forward 5 years in a few months. Now the pressure is mounting to manage data differently. From the #1 storage OS -ONTAP - to the broadest portfolio of systems, your next normal is waiting.

Data Protection
Ever seen a government regulator, board member, or compliance officer smile? You will. Meet strict backup and recovery windows, guard against failures, keep data private, remain compliant, and turn frowns upside down.

Data Management
Our data management solutions help you drive simplicity and efficiency by using software management tools designed to work together, leverage insights to make better-informed decisions, and boost performance, resilience, and protection.

Enterprise Applications
Databases are the marathon runners of your business. You depend on them to fuel growth, streamline operations and drive competitive advantage—on your premises, in the cloud, and across the finish line.

DevOps
Prepare to witness never-before-seen collaboration between Dev and Ops. Our solutions remove friction to help maximize developer productivity, reduce time to market, and improve customer satisfaction.

VDI
Water cooler talk is so passé. Today’s workforce needs the freedom to work wherever. Provide a powerful, consistent end-user computing (EUC) experience - regardless of team size, location, or application complexity.

Artificial Intelligence
Training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms requires data to flow like water through a fire hose. Remove AI infrastructure obstacles and bottlenecks and optimize performance from edge to core to cloud.

Case Studies

Retail Relief

When delivering a NetApp health check for a major insurance company, 25% of the total storage was released - which allowed the client to avoid purchasing additional storage capacity which had been budgeted at £200K.

High Security, High Performance

A NetApp health check with a major retailer identified a security breach in the code, necessitating an OnTap upgrade. In addition to plugging the security breach, the client enjoyed improved performance across all of their systems.

Making the Difference

A NetApp health check for a manufacturing client identified that their systems were not configured to NetApp best practice, which posed a high level of risk of node failure. Had this occurred, this would have resulted in a total outage of their systems. By identifying the problem, it allowed the system to be re-configured in a scheduled window, avoiding any disruption.

Organisations are constantly challenged to deliver maximum business value from storage infrastructure, with insufficient financial and technical resources. This approach delivers cost savings, reduced downtime, and optimisation of the investment, and includes the following:

• Improves storage utilisation, potentially deferring additional storage purchase costs.
• Identifies unused storage efficiency tools and features that can be implemented at zero / minimal cost.
• Analysis and reporting of current storage utilisation, providing a prediction of future utilisation based on growth rates.

• Analysis and reporting on system configuration to identify:

1. Potential risks.
2. Under and Over utilised storage resources.
3. Configuration issues.
4. Potential disk hot spots.
5. Identifies systems risk.
6. Ensures compliance to best practice recommendations
7. Performance review to identify any application issues..
8. Review of Firmware, On Tap revisions to assess any risks, and make recommendations.
9. Review hardware to identify any End of Life technology, so that refresh planning can be commenced.

All audits are performed by NetApp Certified Implementation Engineers (NCIE) who have a minimum of 10 years field experience.