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Fueled by NetApp Programme Endorsement
Internet Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data and part of NTT, is a pan-African telecom and cloud service provider providing end-to-end telco and cloud services to its customers. “We evaluated a number of leading storage vendors, and NetApp SolidFire came out on top in terms of performance, risk, licensing, cost, and modular scalability,” said Kevin Pillay, director of technology, Internet Solutions. “The Fuelled by NetApp team provided training and go-to-market consulting and offered best practice cost modelling around pricing and productisation of the SolidFire system in a way that we were not expecting. It really helped Internet Solutions to shape our flash storage strategy.”
BaaS Partner Endorsements:
Nathan Marke, Chief Digital Officer of the Daisy Group says: “Data is often referred to as the currency of the digital economy, but the cost of ensuring that it is always available has in the past prevented smaller businesses from maximising its value. Daisy's new NetApp-powered service puts enterprise-class availability in the hands of mid-market organisations. It is by leveraging NetApp's amazing technology – and wrapping it in amazing Daisy service – that we ensure businesses are immune to disaster and always on, 24x7."
General Partner endorsements
Speaking of its fruitful NetApp partnership, Ben Laws, Head of Enterprise , CDW, said: “The partnership with NetApp continues to go from strength to strength. With such channel commitment CDW benefit from many programmes not least the Support Services Certified (SSC) offering. CDW also benefit from marketing funds to run highly visible and impactful articles in the Press and funding for bespoke customer executive briefings to the NetApp Amsterdam centre. This ensures our customers benefit from knowing the latest strategy updates from CDW and NetApp. We look forward to another successful year in partnership with NetApp.”
Paul Stringfellow, technical director, Gardner Systems says, “We are a NetApp Gold Partner. We understand how NetApp technologies are developing and what Vital Energi needed. The NetApp AFF8040 was a perfect fit. This platform has been designed as an enterprise-class, all-flash array that dovetails high performance and flexibility with best-in-class data management.”
Customer Endorsements:
“We have a commitment to deliver data to different institutes in Europe on a daily basis,” explains Ruben Alvarez, IT Manager at ESA. “NetApp has given us the confidence that we will meet those requirements. In the coming years, we will be launching new missions that will demand huge amounts of data. NetApp provided us with solutions that were scalable, even if we didn’t know in advance how much disk storage we were going to need. Now we always have a solution ready.”
Jon Woan, IT manager, Vital Energi: “Reports that took 3-5 hours are now generated in 10 minutes and we’re aiming to bring this down to a single digit figure. We’re blown away by the performance. There are no restrictions.”
Steve Denby, Head of Solution Sales at Node4: “Node4 partner with NetApp to deliver innovative service-based solutions that support the modern Digital Transformation age. Today NetApp is easily the most forward thinking partner of all the large vendors that we work with, with an unrivalled ability to execute on our shared vision. With NetApp’s storage infrastructure, our customers have more time on their hands to focus on IT issues that affect business outcomes, with the reassurance of knowing that fundamental processes such as back-up are being taken care of by a secure, reliable service.”