New Portfolio of Programs and Guarantees With NetApp Advance

by Harold Fritts February 7, 2023

written by Harold Fritts February 7, 2023

NetApp AFF customers are getting the help needed to cost-effectively future-proof on-premises environments with NetApp Advance, a new portfolio of programs and guarantees to make it easier to manage storage investment and avoid sporadic capital expenditures delivering hybrid cloud flexibility and efficiency.

NetApp Advance

NetApp Advance takes storage lifecycle management to the next level allowing companies to avoid complex, expensive, time-consuming refresh cycles with ongoing, non-disruptive hardware upgrades. The new program is expected to ensure efficient, secure, and sustainable storage with new guarantees.

To simplify storage ownership and management, NetApp Advance will help customers stay current with technological innovations, avoiding typical upgrade cycles. The program allows organizations to choose on-premises or cloud storage to future-proof environments to scale securely, seamlessly, and without disruption, as their business grows.

NetApp Advance brings best practices for cyber resilience, sustainability, and efficiency capabilities that continually improve energy efficiency and operational performance. In addition, the program will help avoid ransomware events while delivering expertise to rapidly and securely recover data in the event of an attack.

NetApp Storage Lifecycle Program

NetApp Advance also includes the new NetApp Storage Lifecycle Program that introduces the NetApp Cloud Advantage Program. Cloud Advantage allows customers to trade in controllers for full credit toward their choice of NetApp cloud solutions that enable easy scale-out to the cloud to meet ever-changing business demands, as well as new guarantees to benefit organizations in need of agile and efficient storage consumption options and models.

NetApp Storage Lifecycle Program benefits include:

No additional cost, non-disruptive upgrades to the latest storage controller technology every three, four, or five years.
Option to upgrade controllers at only incremental cost prior to three-year renewal.
Optional capacity refresh allows customers to replace lower capacity drives as part of a storage refresh, so customers never have to buy the same capacity twice, achieving a more efficient & sustainable data center footprint.
Remotely managed software updates, including non-disruptive ONTAP software upgrades packed with new capabilities and enhancements.
Premier-level support services, with Active IQ and Cloud Insights, enable full-stack visibility and AIOps to streamline the observability of the infrastructure beyond the storage layer in a single interface to pinpoint issues and simplify troubleshooting quickly. At the same time, ONTAP Essentials provides detailed overviews of ONTAP inventories, workloads, and data protection.

NetApp 4:1 SAN Storage Efficiency Guarantee

Customers with AFF all-flash systems will benefit from NetApp’s 4:1 SAN Storage Efficiency Guarantee. If workload efficiency goals are not met, NetApp will rectify this at no cost to the customer.

Availability

NetApp Advance is available today.

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Harold Fritts

I have been in the tech industry since IBM created Selectric. My background, though, is writing. So I decided to get out of the pre-sales biz and return to my roots, doing a bit of writing but still being involved in technology.