Marie Ashway
Director of Marketing
NetApp Keystone connects the pillars of a hybrid cloud strategy, creating a cloud-like experience on-premises, with the ability to integrate to any public cloud.
NetApp Keystone offers payment options and storage-as-a-service solutions for hybrid cloud environments that deliver greater agility and financial flexibility while reducing financial risk to help companies meet business goals and save on upfront, capital expenses.
When they adopt NetApp Keystone, organizations benefit from cloud storage both on and off-premises while making payments that fit their budget requirements. Getting started with a new way of operating, managing, and paying for storage is easy with NetApp Keystone. Companies just pick a performance tier and storage service and decide whether they or NetApp will be managing it.
Flexible Consumption Model
NetApp Keystone’s flexible consumption model gives customers financial and operational benefits. Today, many companies are embracing flexible consumption models when developing their storage budgets.
This shift is driven by the fact that pay-as-you-go and as-a-service consumption models align costs with usage levels, making them more scalable. Companies also avoid overprovisioning storage when trying to prevent running out of capacity.
The Keystone flexible consumption model also has storage management and monitoring benefits. A simple dashboard lets users monitor and manage their storage usage. With Flex Subscription you can:
- Monitor committed capacity and usage
- Provision storage and set data protection policies
- Review daily burst capacity, usage, and billing
- Get alerts and notifications for capacity changes
- Gain visibility into monthly and historical billing
- Manage your subscription by requesting more capacity and additional storage services
- Integrate orchestration tools using NetApp Keystone API
NetApp Keystone Portfolio
NetApp Keystone offers a full portfolio of payment options and cloud storage services that meet organizations’ needs. Users can choose from a variety of operational models and payment, subscription, or usage-based services.
Flex Pay
Payment options including creative financing, leasing, and fixed or variable solutions to fit your company’s budget and cash flow. Now the portfolio includes the FlexPod® Consumption Model.
Flex Subscription
Pay-as-you-go subscriptions deliver a seamless hybrid cloud experience. NetApp Keystone has rapid service adoption with field-tested implementation so you can transition to the cloud in as soon as 2 weeks.
With Flex Subscription, you can:
- Easily scale storage across clouds easily
- Pay for what you need when you need it
- Operate like a cloud everywhere, on your terms
- Budget with predictable storage cost
Flex Utility
Flex Utility is a true utility service that aligns cloud storage costs with actual storage consumption. With a single subscription for on-premises and cloud services, your business can scale storage across any cloud. Flex Utility is data fabric in action.
NetApp Keystone Use Cases
When considering NetApp Keystone, companies should identify use cases that will benefit from a storage-as-a-service offering. You may recognize your company among these use case examples.
Companies that use NetApp Keystone may want to own or lease assets, paying for them over time. Other users may:
- Have security requirements that require no external monitoring and billing software
- Be capable of predicting capacity growth
- Have a well-managed infrastructure with high asset utilization
- Want to pay for storage based on capacity
Another type of company prefers to budget for 100% operating expenses, with no assets on its balance sheet. The user may want to act as an internal or external service provider and better align costs with usage or have variable capacity growth. The company may:
- Want to reduce time spent on typical storage tasks, such as migrations, tech refresh, and upgrades
- Need solutions for migrating workloads to the cloud or from the cloud to on-premises
- Want to leverage the cloud for bursting, data migrations, backup, disaster recovery, and tiering
Some users prefer 100% variable, pay-per-use consumption and want a true hybrid multicloud environment. The user may prefer a single subscription for on-premises and cloud storage.
More Information:
As a NetApp Star partner, Mainline 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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