A large part of enterprise data is stored in files—serving everything from back-end legacy databases to today’s cloud-native applications. That’s a lot of data, and with more and more enterprise workloads making their way to the public cloud, the need for high-performance cloud file sharing is only going to grow.
For enterprises that are planning to leverage file storage on Google Cloud Platform, there are some important considerations to keep in mind. This article takes a look at several enterprises that have solved the challenges of cloud-based file sharing with Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud.
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When pursuing file-based Google Cloud storage options, there are a number of key challenges to keep in mind:
Major enterprises around the world have turned to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP to enhance their cloud file sharing on GCP. Cloud Volumes ONTAP is a data storage and management platform that deploys on native Google Cloud resources. It provides enterprise-grade performance, availability, accessibility, and data protection along with cost containment capabilities and single-pane management across multicloud and hybrid architectures.
With Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud, enterprises benefit from a wide array of benefits, from lift and shift migrations, superior performance over cloud-native file shares, and multiprotocol accessibility to scalability, data protection, enhanced security, and reduced storage footprint.
In this section we describe how several multinational giants from different verticals have used Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud to accelerate their cloud strategies in general and their cloud file sharing capabilities in particular.
The Carrefour Group is a France-based global retailer that ranks among the top ten earners in its industry. It operates groceries and hypermarkets in tens of thousands of locations spread out across more than 30 countries around the globe.
When Carrefour Group decided to undertake a digital transformation, migrating applications and data to the cloud was a major goal. Carrefour chose Cloud Volumes ONTAP to help make that possible.
Read more about the Carrefour success story with Cloud Volumes ONTAP here.
This company is an energy concern with worldwide operations, providing products and services that help deliver renewable power to hundreds of thousands of customers in more than 80 countries.
Many of those services are run on file-based SAP workloads. But as part of a company-wide shift to the cloud, those SAP workloads had to move to Google Cloud.
The major concern was making sure that vast amounts of data remained available, protected, and that the new environment could handle that scale. To make sure all that happened, the company chose Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
This European financial institution is responsible for the banking and financial services of tens of thousands of corporate customers throughout the continent, with individual private customers that number over 10 million.
The company has an extremely DevOps-driven IT culture, and wanted a way to manage its container-based NFS file share workloads using OpenShift across multiple storage environments both in multiple clouds and in its data centers.
While there are many aspects to this Cloud Volumes ONTAP deployment, several points related to file sharing stand out:
Find out the rest of the details of this major financial company’s deployment here.
This company is one of the largest telecommunications providers in the Southeast Asia/Pacific Region, providing wireless and internet services for tens of millions of customers. What makes this company’s story unique is that it has a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to advance the hyperscaler in the region.
As part of that mission, the company was migrating its customer-facing application and related iSCSI file data to Google Cloud. But the application had strict performance requirements and the company needed data center-class storage management features in the cloud: easy-to-scale high performance storage with flexible management options and high availability. They found that in Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud.
This international music publisher creates products for managing and delivering audio and video content to Digital Service Providers (DSPs) including some of the biggest streaming services in use around the world today.
This company is leveraging Cloud Volumes ONTAP as a unified platform that solves multiple business challenges. By utilizing storage efficiencies, cross-region replication, NFS and SMB protocols, caching, encryption, governance, and multi-tenancy, the company gets to benefit from a wealth of unique innovative advantages that NetApp delivers to its customers.
The benefits include:
With Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google, Cloud enterprises get the best of both worlds for their cloud file-based storage. With file sharing in the cloud, enterprises benefit from cloud agility, elasticity, and operational efficiency without forfeiting the performance, availability, and data protection of on-premises file servers.
Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud enhances these benefits of file sharing in the cloud and ensures seamless data mobility and optimized storage footprints across the enterprise’s entire Data Fabric—even in complex hybrid and multicloud architectures.