26 INTERVIEW // NETAPP
Enhancing cloud performance
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Fadi Kanafani, managing director - Middle East at NetApp, points out that the time is right for a cloud-led, data-centric IT experience.
Fadi Kanafani, managing director - Middle East at NetApp
www.tahawultech.com // Reseller Middle East // OCTOBER 2020
very organisation is looking to cut costs on cloud, but how can they enhance their cloud performance while keeping costs low? The key is partnering with a cloud-led, data centric software company. The reason is that building a performance-minded but cost-efficient cloud strategy requires very specific capabilities, on the solutions side, as well as the tools side. Let’s look at some examples that bring together the seeming conundrum of price and performance: There are advanced data services in the public cloud such as NetApp Cloud Volumes that are perfectly capable of running demanding workloads such as databases, SAP, or verticalized applications for biotech or oil & gas – but within the flexibility of a global hyperscale cloud. Standardisation is another big advantage: With Virtual Desktop Service, customers can deploy optimised virtual infrastructure or procure it as-a-service by ways of the cloud at the click of a mouse button. This would have been a multi-step, drawn out process in the past. There are tools for the hybrid cloud world that for example allow customers to continuously optimise storage and compute usage in the cloud. They monitor the use of virtual machines and containers and ensure SLAs are met for the infrastructure resources that run
