Helping RapidScale Scale Rapidly - NetApp Certifications

You know how it is: a lot of data, a lot of costs. Backing up data in the cloud can quickly drain your budget and impede your growth. RapidScale, a managed cloud service provider, had this issue, too. Its data was projected to triple in 9 months and the company didn’t have a cost-effective way to handle it.

Implementing NetApp solutions® like the StorageGRID® object-based storage solution allowed RapidScale to store and manage unstructured data securely, at scale; keep pace with their data growth; and plan for further expansion in Europe – all while lowering TCO.

Cost-Effective, Scalable Storage

NetApp eliminates RapidScale’s slow ingestion rates and related public cloud performance challenges. Scale-out architecture and a single global namespace allow RapidScale to easily manage the data pouring in from various areas of the business. Storage tiers and policy-based data placement keep the company’s data in the most cost-effective location for its usage requirements.

The company uses NetApp ONTAP® integration with its AFF and FAS systems as well as  NetApp Snapshot™ and SnapMirror® capabilities for data backup and disaster recovery, letting it scale effectively and cut costs.

Investment Monetization

Stopping the hemorrhage of expensive data management costs wasn’t RapidScale’s only priority. With the ability to place data at the optimal storage tier in a multitenant environment, RapidScale was able to turn its attention to its newest offering: Veeam as a Service (VaaS).

NetApp’s policy-based approach enables RapidScale to isolate various data and workflows so that its VaaS data is separate from internal backups. RapidScale Chief Operating Officer William Hiatt said, “The ability to monetize our investment and offer that value to our customers is a huge added benefit. NetApp StorageGRID is more than just the data infrastructure for RapidScale. It’s become a differentiator as well.”

Expansion into New Geographies

NetApp solutions are also enabling RapidScale to continue its European expansion. Its policy engine and application-defined metadata tags can automatically specify where data is distributed, protected, or even deleted to provide GDPR compliance.

Now, with its NetApp foundation, RapidScale has the scalability to handle quick data growth – even when it triples in a matter of months – and the potential to reduce TCO by a whopping 75%.

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Drive Your Success with NetApp Partner Enablement

A thoughtful plan for your career can break down barriers and improve your chances of advancement, along with better compensation. More compensation can give you upward mobility. Over time, you build your professional equity, the combination of your accumulated job skills, expertise, and experience, along with your reputation and the relationships that you have developed.

As a partner-first company, NetApp continues to empower partners like you to be successful. How can we better enable you in your career as far as the sale, implementation, and support of NetApp® based solutions? We view this effort as a continuous journey.

The journey starts with great onboarding. The NetApp Partner Enablement Guide functions as a comprehensive onboarding tool if you are new to NetApp as a partner. In the guide, you will find everything from a welcome to a channel strategy overview, how to get started, how to engage, and ultimately how to win. Use the newest, streamlined version of the Enablement Guide as a launchpad into role-based enablement content on the Partner Hub. There, you can find marketing, sales, and technical messaging and tools that help you have productive, consultative conversations with prospects and customers. Use the Enablement Guide to get started quickly with NetApp.

It continues with excellent enablement. The global NetApp GetSuccessful™ Partner Enablement Program empowers channel partners like you to successfully position and sell NetApp solutions. This program uses a “learn your way” approach, with resources such as videos, online events, channel playbooks, Lunch & Learn sessions, and workshops. Check out a recent example of an enablement tool that helps you stay current with the latest technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), which is quickly shaping business possibilities everywhere. Listen to the NetApp podcast that’s dedicated to growing your business with analytics and AI, and learn how to help your customers take full advantage of these powerful new technologies.

It endures with the latest information and ongoing education. The NetApp Partner Academy is a regularly scheduled educational networking event that takes place in most major cities and in other regional locations around the world. Through the Partner Academy, we continue to engage with partners like you in the long-running cloud story. We bring you up to date on what’s new in the industry and how it affects the outcomes that customers want. You also learn how you can meet these customer demands with the NetApp portfolio. Attend a local Partner Academy event in your area to:

• Foster relationships with the NetApp sales and technical team.
• Gain meaningful opportunities to connect with peers and with the larger partner ecosystem.
• Develop new relationships that promote fresh ideas and that generate leads and new business opportunities.

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Simplifying Video Surveillance Storage with NetApp E-Series

The lines between security and IT organizations are being blurred. With the rapid proliferation of video surveillance data and the rise of intelligent video management systems, security personnel now find themselves responsible for fast-growing IT infrastructure. In addition to keeping people and property safe, they now must also protect and manage terabytes—or even petabytes—of critical data.

Remember When Video Was Simple?

It wasn’t long ago that video was recorded directly onto the camera or fed into a central hub with closed-circuit television (CCTV). Yes, back then, video surveillance was simple—it wasn’t always reliable, but it sure was simple. As concerns around reliability, privacy, and centralization of data have become more prevalent, video surveillance has had to evolve. For many security operations, this evolution has resulted in an increasingly complicated infrastructure with myriad technical processes that require more time and effort to set up and maintain.

Who’s in Charge Here?

Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the security team to decide what video surveillance solutions to deploy and how to deploy them. But when it comes to the infrastructure to support those solutions, it is not always clear where that technology should live and who should manage it.

Enterprise storage can be foreign territory for the security organization. Security personnel would rather spend less time managing IT infrastructure and more time doing their jobs. However, at many organizations, IT doesn’t have the bandwidth to take on another complicated workflow. Furthermore, any additional budget is better spent upgrading cameras and adding capabilities—not adding headcount.

Making Enterprise Storage Simple Again

Five network video recorders (NVRs) are easy to manage. Fifty are a headache. When you get to 100 or more NVRs, it can be a nightmare. That’s the sweet spot for NetApp video surveillance storage solutions. NetApp® E-Series’ high-density, 60-drive shelves can support up to 558 cameras each. Instead of managing hundreds of devices independently, you can manage more than 270PB of storage from a single pane of glass.

NetApp E-Series systems offer purpose-built, high-performance, high-density storage, making them ideal for video surveillance workloads. E-Series storage is reliable, easy to deploy, and easy to manage, so you can grow your video surveillance deployment without adding complexity.

Case in Point: Tufts University

When Tufts University refreshed its video surveillance deployment, the university needed an enterprise-grade storage solution with the speed to provide continuous, uninterrupted access to real-time video feeds and with the reliability and cost-efficiency to archive and retain video for evidence in court.

After choosing exacqVision video management software, Tufts campus police partnered with the university’s central IT department to provide the infrastructure that was needed to support the new solution. Today, the NetApp E-Series video surveillance solution makes it easy for the department to manage 238TB of video data with no additional headcount.