AWS, NetApp unleashes the first fully-managed ONTAP file system in the cloud, giving customers a simple way to run their applications on AWS without changing their code, this enormous opportunity leads customers to really enable more and more digital transformation and adoption of AWS.
ONTAP is NetApp's file system technology that has traditionally powered network-attached storage (NAS) on-premise. NAS is a large market with a number of major players like NetApp, Dell Technologies, HPE, Pure Storage, and Nutanix. Most enterprise applications rely on NAS, so multiple servers running the application can access a shared dataset.
For instance, critical programs like Epic's electronic health record (EHR) software use NAS to give doctors within the hospital access to a system of record. Typically, that application physically sits in a hospital. Now, it can live on AWS.
"This opens up an enormous opportunity for both of us and our customers to really enable more and more digital transformation and adoption of AWS," Anthony Lee, EVP, and GM of public cloud at NetApp, said to ZDNet.