Amazon and NetApp: Linking Public and Private Cloud Storage
December 4, 2012
NetApp Private Storage for Amazon Web Services — a new offering — is a sign of things to come for VARs, MSPs and cloud integrators that want to connect the dots between public and private cloud services. Plus, the Amazon-NetApp relationship could signal Avnet Technology Solutions‘ growing influence as a bridge between the traditional IT channel and the cloud services market.
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced the private storage solution during the AWS re:Invent conference last week. The offering leverages AWS Direct Connect, giving customers the ability to link existing on-premises storage infrastructure to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) public cloud storage. Over the next six to 12 months, I suspect most major on-premises storage companies will offer some sort of bursting option that allows customers and partners to extend into Amazon’s cloud…
Meanwhile, there’s Avnet’s emerging role in all this. Although I don’t have any confirmed information, I strongly suspect Avnet Technology Solutions (NYSE: AVT) — which runs the Avnet Cloud Solutions business — helped NetApp and Amazon to find common cloud ground. I could be wrong but I believe Avnet may be the only distributor that’s working with both NetApp and Amazon. And within the NetApp-Amazon annoncement, Avnet VP Tim FitzGerald is quoted in support of the relationship…
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