ONTAP Unified Data Storage Management

Eliminate complex silos for greater data access and reduced costs.

• Provide a common set of industry-leading data services
• Support any data; block, file, and object from one platform
• Manage everything from a single user-friendly GUI or automate with CLI and APIs

Serve any data, anywhere, with the right performance and price.

• Support for a wide range of platforms, including all-flash and hybrid
• Integrated into all major clouds as a first-party service
• The best of software-defined and appliance storage to support core, cloud, and edge workloads

Mitigate risk with secure and available storage.

• Replication, Snapshot technology, and multisite high availability
• Integrated AI to automatically detect anomalies and threats to your data
• Zero Trust architecture with complete access control and fully integrated at-rest and in-flight data encryption technology

In a world full of threats, whether human-made (such as ransomware) or natural disaster, ONTAP provides the security and availability you need to eliminate risk from operations and enhance business continuity.

With ONTAP, you can meet your requirements for local backup with nearly instantaneous recovery by using space-efficient Snapshot copies. Achieve remote backup/recovery and disaster recovery with NetApp SnapMirror asynchronous replication or with SnapMirror Cloud when replicating data to a cloud object store in a public or private cloud. Or, to step up to zero-data-loss protection (RPO=0), use SnapMirror synchronous replication.

For your critical applications that require continuous data availability, NetApp MetroCluster and SnapMirror active sync technologies synchronously mirror between locations to provide business continuity against human-made or natural disasters. The storage arrays can be deployed at a single site, across a metropolitan area, or in different cities. MetroCluster is a robust, full-system infrastructure for your SAN and NAS workloads. SnapMirror active sync enables the flexibility to granularly protect the most critical SAN applications with continuous availability if a data center disaster occurs.

With ONTAP, you can service and update your infrastructure during regular working hours without disrupting your business. Dynamically assign, promote, and retire storage resources without downtime over the lifecycle of an application. Data can be moved without application interruption, so you can get the data on the node that delivers the optimal combination of speed, latency, capacity, and cost.

You can save time and money by sharing the same consolidated infrastructure for workloads or tenants that have different performance, capacity, and security requirements. And with ONTAP, you don't have to worry that the activity in one tenant partition will affect another. With multitenancy, a storage cluster can be subdivided into secure partitions that are governed by rights and permissions.

Built-in security to harden ONTAP includes ransomware detection for primary storage. Industry-leading security capabilities in ONTAP help you to integrate data security and ransomware detection and response for user behavior and workloads on file, block, and native cloud. NetApp Autonomous Ransomware Protection, powered by AI, offers real-time detection of anomalies with automatic responses for fast recovery. Multiadmin verification prevents malicious and accidental changes to your data by requiring multiple approvals for critical admin tasks. The built-in NetApp Volume Encryption feature enables you to easily protect your at-rest data by encrypting any volume. In-flight encryption for backup and replication protects your data in transit. Other features like multifactor authentication, role-based access control (RBAC), and onboard and external key management increase the security of your data.

To meet your stringent compliance and data retention policies, NetApp SnapLock software enables write once, read many (WORM) protected data for your ONTAP environment. NetApp also provides superior integration with enterprise backup vendors and leading applications. In addition, cryptographic shredding by the NetApp secure purge technology enables you to remediate data spillage online while the system is still in use. It also provides state-of-the-art "right-to-erasure" capability for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Make a simple, straightforward transition to ONTAP. No matter what your starting point is, NetApp streamlines your move to ONTAP. Consult our experts to plan and implement your transition and gain the latest ONTAP advantages from day one. You can use NetApp Professional Services or NetApp Services Certified Partners, you can do it yourself by using our proven tools and processes, or you can combine these approaches. Plus, when you're running ONTAP, you can use the Managed Upgrade Service to get the most from your investment by keeping your ONTAP software always up to date.