![]() “We both believe that there’s an opportunity to pivot from an infrastructure-driven application architecture to an application-driven infrastructure,” Lye said. It will target traditional information technology buyers with enterprise applications, cloud-native workloads and data lakes, he said. Anthony Lye, senior vice president and general manager of NetApp’s Public Cloud Services, told SiliconANGLE in an interview that the plan is to offer Spot’s platform for continuous compute and storage optimization. The acquisition of Spot appears to fit with that strategy. The company’s response has been to shift its strategy to products that enable customers to access their data wherever it lives, as if it were on a local file system. NetApp has traditionally been a seller of data storage hardware, but its business has slowed in recent years because of the growth of cloud computing services such as AWS. It can also intelligently manage, provision and orchestrate spare capacity to help its customers take better advantage of these cheaper compute resources. But most enterprises fail to benefit from these cheaper prices because they can’t predict their availability.īut Spot says it can accurately predict the availability of this excess capacity thanks to its AI-powered software. These cloud companies sell excess data center capacity, which is usually referred to as “spot instances,” at significantly discounted rates, rather than not sell it at all. Spot does that primarily by tapping into excess server capacity offered by public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google LLC and Alibaba Cloud, the subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. It uses artificial intelligence software to help its customers manage cloud workloads across different data centers, claiming it can achieve savings of 80% on average. Spot sells a platform that helps companies to optimize their cloud computing spending across multiple providers in order to save them more money. ![]() Spot had raised about $52 million in funding and employs 150 people in Tel Aviv, San Francisco and London. The companies didn’t reveal the amount, but a source told Calcalist the price was $450 million. said Wednesday it’s buying the Israeli cloud infrastructure optimization startup Spot. In addition, NetApp will add significant resources to the existing CloudJumper channel partner program enhancing the capabilities of MSP, VAR, SI and ISV partners to solve customer challenges and grow their businesses.In its third acquisition this year, Data storage firm NetApp Inc. NetApp VDS will be available immediately on NetApp Cloud Central and integrated with Azure NetApp Files and Cloud Volumes. NetApp VDS provides CloudJumper’s customers highly resilient data storage with enterprise-class features including performance, high availability, global file caching, backup, compliance and essential capabilities to help move business operations to the cloud. ![]() “NetApp and CloudJumper provide a simplified management platform for delivering virtual desktop infrastructure, storage and data management across Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud with best in class virtual desktop management combined with best in class storage and data services.”ĬloudJumper gives customers a simple and secure path to the future by managing current environments – often on-premises or using older technologies such as Remote Desktop Services (RDS) – in addition to the environment the market is moving to – cloud hosted desktops using Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD). “The ability to provide a consistent virtual desktop experience at scale while keeping data available and secure without sacrificing performance has always been important and is especially critical in today’s unprecedented environment,” said Anthony Lye, senior vice president and general manager of NetApp’s Cloud Data Services business unit. NetApp, the leader in cloud data services, announced that it acquired CloudJumper, a leading cloud software company in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and remote desktop services (RDS) markets.Īs a result of the acquisition, the new NetApp Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) will solve the most challenging problems of virtual desktop services and application management, allowing customers to deploy, manage, monitor and optimize those environments as a total solution from a single company on the public cloud of their choice.
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