During an Insight Pavilion Theater presentation, Kamal Vyas, IT Senior Storage Engineer, provided an explanation of Data Fabric and how it enables IT to manage data across a hybrid cloud environment—critical to IT’s next generation service delivery platform to leverage both private and public cloud. Data Fabric provides the framework to enable NetApp IT to use Cloud on its terms, by placing application workloads in the cloud that offers the right service level, right price and ability to dynamically migrate as service levels and price requirements change.

1. How Data Fabric simplifies data
management across Hybrid
cloud inside NetApp
Kamal Vyas
Cloud Solution Architect @NetAppIT

2. Agenda
1) The New Data Center
2) Data Fabric : A Practitioner View
3) Data Fabric and Cloud Architecture
4) Data Fabric in Action
5) Data Fabric: Use Cases
6) Key Takeaways
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Unique Value Proposition
of NetApp IT
10,000 employees
150 office locations
45 countries
 5 data centers
 5,348 servers (~75% virtualized)
 52 PB data center storage
 560 enterprise applications
NetApp on NetApp
• Practitioner’s viewpoint
• Business benefits realization
• Sharing lessons learned
Customer-1
• Early product adoption
• Feedback on products & services
• Technology use cases

4. Need for a data fabric
Data center definitions are changing
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Traditional Data Centers

DC-1
DC-2
DC-3
New Data Centers
Physical
Virtual
Dispersed
Data
Disparate Data Sets
everywhere

5. What is Data Fabric
A practitioner’s view
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 Data Management Framework for Digital Business
 Framework which consists of;
 Data Management Solutions
 Endpoints
 Tools
 Transport
 Partners
 Framework that Delivers;
 Choice
 Control
 Responsiveness
Transport
Snap Mirror
SnapVault
Etc.
Endpoints
ONTAP
SolidFire
Etc.
Tools
WFA
OCI / OCUM
Etc.
Partners
AWS
Azure
Etc.
Solutions
Analytics
Service
Continuity
Compliancy Etc.

6. NetApp’s Hybrid Cloud
Architecture overview
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7. NetApp’s Data Fabric
US-East Data Fabric in action
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 Full control of corporate data
 Data privacy and compliancy
 No-vendor lock-ins
 Service continuity planning
 Standardized architectures
 Standardized operations
 Lower TCO ~ 30X
compression
~ 75%
gain

8. Data Fabric Use Cases
Beyond storage
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9.  Data is the new oil
 Cloud providers want to take control of your data
 Data-management is foundation of a successful hybrid cloud deployment
 Organizations that embrace and leverage BI and analytics will outpace their
competitors and win in their markets
 Analytics, security, compliance and regulatory, business continuity planning
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Key Takeaways
Work in Progress

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