fluidOps is NetApp Advantage Alliance Partner

As of October 2010 fluid Operations™ has been chosen as a NetApp Advantage Alliance Partner. fluid Operations is collaborating with NetApp to tightly integrate NetApp storage systems. With this partnership, customers will be able to fully automate their data centers (up to 100%) and bring enterprise applications to the cloud.

Joint Solution Overview

The eCloudManager™ is qualified by NetApp as a proven data center monitoring and management solution, and its addition to the NetApp solution portfolio allows customers to make the most of NetApp’s storage systems for their private or public cloud initiatives.
The eCloudManager™ integrates directly with NetApp storage systems by using the NetApp Zephyr and REST APIs to monitor NetApp storage filers and leverage advanced enterprise storage features such as NetApp FlexClone and LUN snapshots. This enables rapid provisioning of enterprise application Virtual Landscapes, and allows enterprises to offer up multi-tiered multi-system enterprise apps (such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange), as well as company-developed applications as Landscape as a Service™ – on demand and without any post-provisioning effort. The results are massive improvements in the time and effort required for enterprise application lifecycle management.

For more information please also see the NetApp partner directory or fluidOps & NetApp Solution Overview.

Joint Solution Benefits

Use Case	Typical Data Center	eCloudManager™ & NetApp Joint Solution
Provisioning (e.g. for enterprise application landscapes)	Manual, error-prone, requires post-provisioning configuration, can take up to a few weeks	Leverages advanced storage features, automatic, reliable, no post-provisioning effort, ready within minutes
IT stack monitoring	Difficult, requires several tools from several vendors, and individual login for each resource	One console solution, full IT stack integration, multi-datacenter, vendor independent
Resource utilization	Inefficient, wasted hardware space	Optimal hardware allocation, increased workflow efficiency, speeds up internal expansion through ease of use
Error tracking throughout the whole IT stack	Manual, error-prone, can take up to a few hours	Automatic, reliable, based on internal processes and workflows, errors discovered within minutes
SLA enforcement	Difficult to determine whether SLAs will be met, high lead times	SLAs remain within defined parameters, potential failure to meet SLAs recognized immediately
Resource booking	Tedious process, requires permission from several departments	On-demand, full control over costs, real cloud enablement