Netapp and Google Cloud have announced a new series of functionalities for their Joint Google Cloud Netapp Volumes, with the aim of facilitating companies the management of critical workloads in cloud and hybrid environments. The platform, which is already widely used to automate complex processes such as electronic design (EDA), now expands its capabilities to support data sets at Petabytes scale, artificial intelligence applications and business content repositories.
With these improvements, organizations can integrate their data more fluid with the Google Cloud VERTEX AI platform, preconfigure environments under specific regulatory parameters and climb storage resources without compromising performance or cost efficiency.
Scalability without friction and direct access to ia
One of the main novelties is integration with VERTEX AI, which will allow companies to use data stored in NetApp volumes directly in increased recovery generation (RAG) applications without having to design custom flows. This step not only optimizes the operation, but democratizes access to artificial intelligence in corporate environments.
“Simplified AI access is a democratizing force that allows organizations to take advantage of their most critical asset – the data – to obtain a competitive advantage,” says Sameet Agawal, vice president and general director of Cloud Storage on Google.
In parallel, NetApp has improved the benefits of its premium and Extreme service levels, now available in 14 regions, allowing individual volumes to be supplied from 15th to 1pib with up to 30 gib/s performance. This facilitates the migration of large workloads without the need to divide the data into multiple volumes.
The cloud storage service expands its scalability, performance and integration with AI to facilitate large -scale business workloads
Granular control and regulatory compliance
Another outstanding functionality is the improvement of the Flex Service level, which now allows you to climb capacity, performance and IOPS independently. Users can configure custom storage groups, adapting the performance up to 5 GIB/SY 160,000 IOPS, which reduces overprovision and optimizes costs.
In addition, NetApp Volumes will soon integrate the Google Cloud framework framework, which will ensure that storage environments meet the specific data residence requirements, access control and regulatory compliance by region.
Real use cases
Great companies are already taking advantage of these capabilities. “In OpenText we trust Netapp for several critical storage technologies. In GCP we greatly trust Google Cloud Netapp Volumes for our data storage needs,” explains Stan Rock, main technology architect in OpenText. “Global availability and flexibility in supply have allowed us to operate more efficiently and quickly adapt to our business needs.”
These updates reaffirm the joint commitment of Netapp and Google Cloud by an intelligent data infrastructure, which allows to transform raw data into real -time processable information. One more step towards an agile cloud ecosystem, safe and prepared for the era of artificial intelligence.
