Hybrid Cloud Data Infrastructure
NetApp Portfolio on Microsoft Azure
Unlock the true potential of the cloud with Microsoft Azure and NetApp. The strategic partnership of NetApp and Microsoft Azure makes it easier to support complex environments, allowing you to derive greater value from your data.
Solving your AI workload and hybrid cloud data infrastructure challenges requires an intelligent data infrastructure that's scalable, secure, sustainable, and AI-ready.
This is precisely what NetApp had in mind when we partnered with Microsoft to offer industry-leading cloud storage, observability, and open-source expertise. Our strategic partnership enables organizations to manage data across any environment with simplicity and high performance, whether your data is on premises, in Azure, or a combination of both. Now, companies can build, deploy, and scale applications and AI workloads in Azure while driving efficiencies across the board.
Features and Benefits
The capabilities that set NetApp Portfolio on Microsoft Azure apart.
Top 5 Reasons to Use the NetApp Portfolio on Microsoft Azure
Market Leader in Unified Data Storage
Proclaimed market leader by Gartner, GigaOm, and IDC, NetApp® unified data storage technology is the choice for hybrid and cloud-native environments.
Strategic Partnership for Data Infrastructure Innovation
As strategic partners, NetApp and Microsoft continue to lead data infrastructure innovation, delivering silo-free infrastructure, observability, and AI to enable robust data management everywhere.
Reduced Cost and Complexity
Reduce cost and complexity with simplified operations and unified control. Use managed services and support to simplify open source technology management and effortlessly scale out applications.
Minimized Risk for Enterprise Workloads
Minimize risk when moving applications and workloads such as SAP, Oracle, VMware, high-performance computing (HPC), and Azure Virtual Desktop to Azure with our 99.99% uptime SLA.
Comprehensive Data Safeguarding
Safeguard your valuable data with a full suite of data management capabilities, including NetApp Snapshot™ copies, backup, and data replication.
Where NetApp Adds Value
Advanced Data Management Capabilities
- Understand and identify sensitive data for categorization with AI-driven natural language processing (NLP).
- Protect data with block-level, incremental-forever replication.
- Leverage a single control plane to intelligently orchestrate a comprehensive, workload-centric ransomware defense.
Streamlined Operations and Observability
- Simplify management of your on-premises and cloud environments with a unified control plane.
- Gain total visibility of your infrastructure and attached workloads to simplify operations, optimize performance, and maintain availability of your storage infrastructure.
Lower Public Cloud Storage Spending
- Leverage NetApp ONTAP® storage efficiencies to reduce and optimize your storage footprint.
- Reduce infrastructure TCO by using standard storage with cool access to tier data to low-cost object storage.
- Scale capacity-based storage up or down based on requirements.
Target Workloads
VMware
Attach NFS datastores as a persistent storage option with the support of Azure VMware Solution. Create NFS datastores with Azure NetApp Files and attach them to clusters of your choice to scale capacity without adding more Azure VMware Solution nodes.
Database
Increase Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database performance and reduce cost by up to 60%. Simplify storage and infrastructure by centralizing unstructured data for SAP HANA, and AnyDB. Reduce SAP backup times by 99%. Certified for use with SAP HANA.
File Shares
Leverage enterprise-grade file sharing for home directories, web applications, SAP applications, and global file sharing.
Hybrid Cloud
Achieve more efficient disaster recovery, backup and archive, and cloud bursting with the NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP® solution.
Competitive Edge
Lower Effective Cost Without Compromise
Easily optimize cost, time, and performance to streamline your enterprise applications without rearchitecting or sacrificing performance and reliability. Optimize data protection costs with highly durable, incremental-forever, block-based backups with NetApp Backup and Recovery.
Lower Risk and Maintain Compliance
Meet uptime and availability SLAs with automatic cross-region replication in Azure, and restore instantly with zero-impact NetApp Snapshot™ copies.
Unparalleled Protection
Use NetApp Data Classification with out-of-the-box data insights to identify sensitive personal identifiable information from a no-visual-nonsense compliance dashboard. The NetApp Instaclustr® managed platform is certified for global standards such as SOC2 and PCI DSS, helping organizations maintain compliance. Our teams actively apply security and version updates to managed open-source software, reducing both security and compliance risk.
Deep Integration
Enjoy a seamless and secure Azure experience that includes no learning or management overhead and that can be set up in minutes from the Azure portal.
Simplify Storage Management and Observability
Experience unified, enterprise-grade management of storage and data services across your hybrid multicloud with NetApp Console. Streamline operations and protect every action with a secure-first design. Gain total visibility of your infrastructure and attached workloads with NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights, simplifying operations, optimizing performance, and maintaining availability of your storage infrastructure.
Expert Guidance
Thrive with expert-led storage guidance
Get tailored advice on how NetApp Portfolio on Microsoft Azure fits your environment — from sizing and deployment to long-term optimization.
Technical Specifications
Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.
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Owned by Microsoft AzureAzure NetApp Files
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Owned by NetApp
- NetApp® Cloud Volumes ONTAP®
- NetApp Backup and Recovery
- NetApp Tiering
- NetApp Copy and Sync
- NetApp Data Classification
- NetApp Ransomware Resilience
- NetApp Instaclustr®
- NetApp Trident™
- NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights
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Uptime SLA99.99%
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Database Cost ReductionUp to 60% (Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server)
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SAP Backup Time Reduction99%
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SAP HANA CertificationCertified for use with SAP HANA
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NetApp Instaclustr CertificationsSOC2, PCI DSS
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Enterprise ApplicationsSAP, Oracle, VMware, high-performance computing (HPC), Azure Virtual Desktop
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DatabasesOracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP HANA, AnyDB
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File Sharing Use CasesHome directories, web applications, SAP applications, global file sharing
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ReplicationBlock-level, incremental-forever replication
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Snapshot TechnologyNetApp Snapshot™ copies (zero-impact)
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Cross-Region ReplicationAutomatic cross-region replication in Azure
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Data ClassificationAI-driven natural language processing (NLP)
Compare NetApp Portfolio on Microsoft Azure Series
Select the right scale for your workload demands.
| Model Name | Max Capacity | Port Config | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure NetApp Files | Enterprise-grade file sharing capacity | N/A | Get Quote |
| NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP | Scalable capacity-based storage | N/A | Get Quote |
| NetApp Backup and Recovery | Incremental-forever, block-based backups | N/A | Get Quote |
| NetApp Tiering | Tiers data to low-cost object storage | N/A | Get Quote |
| NetApp Instaclustr | N/A | N/A | Get Quote |
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