Stop the Rewrite
84% of organizations operate hybrid IT. Most stall on migration because they treat it as a code rewrite. The strategic shift is data mobility — moving SAP, Oracle, and the rest without rewriting a line of code.
Hybrid is the baseline. Migration is the bottleneck.
Migration projects stall when they're framed as software refactors instead of strategic infrastructure evolutions. The unlock: a unified control plane that keeps your data — and your code — intact across every environment.
84%
Of organizations now operate within hybrid IT infrastructures.
Days → Hours
Migration planning collapses with Workload Factory automation.
−50%
Average savings on infrastructure and operational costs from rightsizing.
4:1
Storage efficiency ratio achieved by ASA + ONTAP One in production.
Days of Planning → Hours of Execution
The traditional migration path is crippled by manual coordination across disparate tools — a process that invites configuration errors and architectural inconsistencies.
NetApp Workload Factory revolutionizes the deployment lifecycle for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP by replacing manual guesswork with intelligent automation. Its dedicated Assess, Plan, Launch workflow lets architects:
- Accelerate timelines: shorten migration planning from days to a few hours.
- Eliminate configuration risk: reduce infrastructure errors by up to 90% via built-in best practices.
- Maximize ROI: save an average of 50% through rightsized resource allocation and automated scaling.
- Integrate with DevOps: autogenerated Infrastructure-as-Code snippets plug into existing orchestration pipelines.
"Workload Factory simplifies this process by following well-architected principles — embedding best practices directly into automated workflows and continuously monitoring for environmental drift to ensure the infrastructure remains optimized."
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NetApp Workload Factory
Assess, plan, launch — intelligent migration workflows.
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Unified data services across on-prem and every major cloud.
Learn moreLift and Shift Without the Re-Code
The "refactor-first" mindset is a barrier to innovation.
Architects often fear that moving to public cloud requires fundamentally changing how applications interact with the storage layer. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files, and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes deliver a native enterprise experience embedded inside the world's leading cloud providers.
This consistency is a game-changer. Maintain existing management tools and protocols — NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and high-performance NVMe/TCP — without modification. Because these services are first-party integrations, the application remains completely unaware that its underlying data has moved from a local data center to the public cloud. True lift and shift, with operational integrity preserved.
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Move workloads without changing a line of code
Our specialists design migrations that preserve protocols, automation, and operational integrity — whether you're moving to AWS, Azure, GCP, or all three.
Data Mobility as the Antidote to Vendor Lock-In
To achieve true hybrid cloud maturity, data must move based on business value — not provider constraints.
This requires a robust data fabric powered by NetApp Copy and Sync and SnapMirror. Copy and Sync is the versatile mobilizer, creating sync relationships across NFS, SMB, S3, and StorageGRID. SnapMirror is the high-speed replication engine, providing the asynchronous or synchronous replication necessary for disaster recovery and high-velocity data mobility.
Together, they enable a unified control plane where data tiers automatically: hot data stays on high-performance flash; cold data moves to lower-cost object storage. Vendor lock-in becomes a choice, not a fact.
"Only NetApp can help build your unique data fabric, simplify and connect your cloud, and securely deliver the right data… anytime, anywhere."
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Security Is the New Last Line of Defense
In our threat landscape, the storage layer is the final bastion of defense.
Traditional backups are no longer sufficient deterrent — resilience must be built-in, not bolted-on. While the industry-average workload recovery is a staggering seven days, an intelligent data infrastructure enables recovery in minutes.
Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP/AI) delivers this resilience: real-time hardening with 99% detection accuracy, a logical air gap via SnapLock-immutable WORM volumes, and instant snapshot-and-block on anomaly. The Ransomware Recovery Guarantee further cements business confidence: if Snapshot data cannot be recovered through NetApp's tools and professional services, the organization is compensated.
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99%-accurate real-time threat detection at storage layer.
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Compensation backstop on protected snapshot recovery.
Learn moreThe Sustainability Math: 4:1 is the Magic Number
Cloud migration is now a key component of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) compliance.
Modernizing infrastructure isn't just about speed — it's about reducing the carbon footprint of the data center. Using NetApp ASA systems powered by ONTAP One, organizations achieve unprecedented efficiency. A large aerospace manufacturer recently demonstrated a 4:1 storage efficiency ratio through advanced deduplication and compression, a 70% reduction in power consumption versus legacy competitor systems, and significant footprint reduction through FabricPool automated tiering, which moves inactive data to efficient object storage without impacting application performance.
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If your data could move as fast as your ideas, where would you take your business tomorrow?
The transition from complex, error-prone migrations to a silo-free, intelligent data infrastructure is the prerequisite for the next wave of enterprise evolution. By unifying management across the hybrid cloud, you do more than stabilize the present — you enable the future, including GenAI and rapid deployment of RAG pipelines using your private data securely and at scale.