The company announced the release of NetApp StorageGRID for VMware Sovereign Cloud. The NetApp Plugin for VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension enables customers to more cost-effectively store and protect unstructured data while complying with global privacy and data location regulations. NetApp also announced the latest release of NetApp ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere (OTV 10.0), designed to simplify and centralize enterprise data management in multi-tenant vSphere environments.

The new NetApp Object Storage plug-in enables cloud service providers to seamlessly integrate StorageGRID as a go-to Object Storage solution to offer customers secure Object Storage. The integration delivers StorageGRID services within the familiar VMware Cloud Director user interface, minimizing training efforts and maximizing time to revenue. A standout feature of StorageGRID is its universal compatibility and native support for industry-standard APIs, such as Amazon S3 API, ensuring smooth interoperability across diverse cloud environments. Further enhanced values like automated lifecycle management help ensure more cost-effective safeguarding, storage, and maintain high availability for VMware environments with unstructured data.

Integrating NetApp Sovereign Cloud with Cloud Director will allow service providers to offer their customers the following benefits:

• Better assurance that sensitive information, including metadata, remains under control while preventing access by people or organizations that could violate data privacy laws.
• Increased security and compliance that protects applications and data from rapidly evolving attack vectors while maintaining continuous compliance.
• Future-proofed infrastructure to react quickly to changing data privacy regulations and security threats.
• The ability to unlock the value of data with secure data sharing and analysis to drive innovation without violating privacy laws.

Additionally, NetApp announced a collaboration with VMware to modernize the API integrations between NetApp ONTAP and VMware vSphere. This integration helps VMware administrators simplify the management and operation of NetApp ONTAP-based data management platforms in multi-tenant vSphere environments, while leveraging a new microservices-based architecture for greater scalability and availability. With the latest releases of NetApp ONTAP and ONTAP Tools for vSphere, it's much faster and easier to provision, protect, and enhance the security of modern VMware environments at scale, while maintaining a single point of visibility and control through vSphere.

NetApp ONTAP Tools for VMware deliver two key benefits to customers:

• A redefined architecture with VMware vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) integration simplifies policy-driven operations and cloud-like scale.
• Automation-enabled framework through an API-first approach that allows IT teams to integrate with existing tooling and build end-to-end workflows.

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