BLOG: NetApp BlueXP: Unified Hybrid Multicloud Management

May 18th, 2023 BLOG: NetApp BlueXP: Unified Hybrid Multicloud Management
Seth Tollefson
Solutions Architect

 

NetApp BlueXP: Unified Hybrid Multicloud Management

 

Enterprise data management continues to grow in complexity. Organizations are looking for solutions that simply operations, process, and management of their data estate across their hybrid multicloud environment. NetApp BlueXP with its unified control plane provides seamless management, flexible consumption, AIOps-driven automation, and integrated protection to simplify operational and management complexity.

 

What is NetApp BlueXP?

 

The NetApp BlueXP unified control plane is a single pane of glass that allows for the management of your storage and data services across on-premises and multicloud environments. This powerful product can help you to simplify your IT operations, improve your data security, classify data, and reduce your overall management costs.

 

Save time with NetApp BlueXP

 

All the features of NetApp BlueXP result in the same outcome: time and resource savings. AIOps and Automated Workflows simplify management of data storage. Integrated Analytics provide deep insights into your data usage for faster and more informed decision making. The Policy-based management and Data Classification ensure compliance requirements are met so that audits can be conducted faster and more efficiently.

 

AIOps capabilities

 

NetApp BlueXP includes AIOps capabilities that can help you to automate common tasks that consume valuable administration time, such as performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting. The AI-enabled monitoring, alerting, and proactive suggestions drive this simplification of IT administrators’ operational tasks and can lead to more effective management of your storage ecosystem. For example, NetApp BlueXP can automatically predict when you will exceed storage capacity and recommend solutions to address the issue.

 

Automated workflows

 

NetApp BlueXP can automate many of the day-to-day storage management tasks that can plague IT storage administrators. The automated workflows provided by BlueXP include new storage provisioning, migration of data between different storage environments, data protection, and more.

 

Integrated analytics

 

NetApp BlueXP provides integrated analytics that can provide detailed insights into your storage and data usage. This insightful information can provide you with actionable intelligence to make more informed decisions about what to do with your data.

 

Policy-based management

 

NetApp BlueXP allows you to create and enforce multiple policies across your entire storage ecosystem. Policy-based management can ensure that your data is always protected and compliant with your organization’s regulatory and security requirements.

 

Data Classification

 

NetApp BlueXP can automatically scan, analyze, and categorize your data to help you stay compliant. To comply with regulations like HIPAA, CCPA, GDPR, and others, you must know what information is contained in your data sets and treat that data appropriately. Data classification can automatically identify, control, and report on Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and act on your data to help you stay compliant.

 

On-Premises and Multicloud Integrations

 

NetApp BlueXP can help you manage your entire data estate on-premises and in the cloud. The integrations with the top cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) allow for the efficient management of your data to ensure your desired business outcomes by providing features such as data tiering, performance enhancement for Small Office/Branch Office (SOBO), and data protection.

 

BlueXP Cloud Tiering

 

With BlueXP Cloud Tiering, you can seamlessly tier cold data from high-performance arrays to more cost-effective object storage, thus freeing up the more expensive capacity for your performance-sensitive mission-critical workloads and promoting workload sustainability. This highly controlled tiering of cold data is transparent to users and applications and occurs without any required changes to their workflows.

 

BlueXP Edge Caching

 

BlueXP Edge Caching allows your organization’s SOBOs to get the best performance over lower bandwidth, higher latency wide-area networks (WANs). Your storage administrators maintain centralized control over your global file shares while providing the end users with the performance needed to be productive.

With Edge Caching, the most frequently assessed data is cached intelligently at the remote locations while central control is maintained by the administrators. This, like BlueXP Cloud Tiering, is carried out transparently for the end users and applications with no change to their workflows.

 

Backup and Recovery

 

The Backup and Recovery features built into NetApp BlueXP fit seamlessly into an organization’s 3-2-1 backup strategy. The ability to back up your ONTAP workloads to highly durable, cost-effective, object-based storage is nearly effortless.

You can choose to back up on-premises to NetApp StorageGRID, remotely to cloud-based object storage, such as Azure Blob storage or Amazon S3, or a combination of on-premises and cloud. These incremental forever backups are created quickly and efficiently using 4KB data blocks while preserving NetApp ONTAP’s storage efficiencies (compression, compaction, replication, and deduplication).

More Information

 

As a NetApp Star partner, Mainline Information Systems delivers enterprise storage solutions that are efficient, reliable, and cost-effective. Our top-level partnership assures clients that we maintain the stringent Star partner certification requirements across the NetApp storage family of products, plus we are backed by a strong relationship with the NetApp team. For more information on how we can help you, contact your Mainline Account Representative directly, or reach out to us here with any questions.

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