NetApp Teams Up with Fujitsu and VMware to Offer Affordable Hybrid Cloud Solution for Midmarket

NetApp has unveiled a bundled virtualization solution aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, collaborating with Fujitsu, a VMware and NetApp reseller, to make this offering available. This solution provides an integrated and cost-effective virtualized infrastructure solution to assist small and medium businesses in streamlining and accelerating the management of both traditional and modern applications. It will be marketed and supported through Fujitsu and its partners and features the latest VMware vSphere 8 virtualization software, Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers, and NetApp all-flash storage systems integrated with NetApp ONTAP.

According to a recent IDC European CloudOps survey conducted in 2023, approximately 60% of surveyed organizations are exceeding their cloud budget by two to three times. This has led many organizations to adopt an application-first, cloud-smart approach to building hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, aiming to maintain flexibility and control over their virtual machines (VMs) and data.

Jenni Flinders, Senior Vice President of WW Partner Organization at NetApp, highlighted the need for reliable technologies tailored to the requirements of small and midsize businesses. These businesses often find the available solutions to be overly complex and cost-prohibitive. She emphasized that the collaboration with Fujitsu, which marks the 25th anniversary of their partnership, aims to bring an integrated virtualized infrastructure solution to the SMB market, offering enterprise-class, hybrid multi-cloud architecture at an affordable price.

The solution, combining the latest VMware vSphere virtualization software, Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers, and NetApp All-Flash systems, enables IT organizations to deploy a cost-effective and efficient cloud-ready platform that is designed to easily shift workloads to public cloud providers of choice and bring workloads back on-premises while maintaining operational consistency.

Christian Leutner, Vice President and Head of European Platform Business at Fujitsu, expressed their commitment to delivering innovative solutions to empower customers regardless of size or industry. The collaboration with NetApp allows Fujitsu to provide simplified, cost-effective virtualization solutions to their customers, focusing on innovation and gaining a competitive edge.

The key benefits of this bundled solution include:

• VMware vSphere 8: Enterprise virtualization software that brings cloud benefits to on-premises deployments.
• Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers: Equipped with the latest Intel x86 processors, Fujitsu Software Infrastructure Manager (SIM), and Fujitsu Professional Services.
• NetApp All-Flash A150 Storage: Offering enterprise-class performance at an entry-level price.
• NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software: With API integrations to vSphere for simplified storage provisioning and operations.
• NetApp Software Bundle: Includes technologies like SnapCenter, SnapMirror, SnapRestore, and FlexClone to simplify data management operations.

Ricky Cooper, Head Partner of WW Partner and Commercial Sales at VMware, noted the shift from cloud-first to cloud-smart approaches among IT organizations as they seek solutions that offer the fastest return on investment for their businesses. The collaboration with Fujitsu and NetApp is designed to provide customers with an affordable hybrid cloud infrastructure for their workloads.

NetApp, Fujitsu, and VMware are collectively committed to helping customers simplify and standardize IT infrastructure and operations. The outcome for customers is an enterprise-class, virtualized, cloud-smart infrastructure with simplified procurement, services, and support, all tailored to the midmarket, and affordably priced.