Friend of the CTO Advisor Chris Evans wrote about the history and challenges of NetApp’s Ontap everywhere strategy back in 2016. Fast forward to September 2021, and NetApp now has a significant feather in its cap. AWS announced FSx for Ontap a couple of weeks ago.
Ontap runs in a customer’s VPC but is delivered and managed by AWS as a first-class citizen.
In a sponsored interview, I talked with AWS about why they made the solution and how it will help customers migrate to the public cloud.