On June 1st 2019, Microsoft announced the GA of their latest shared file service: Azure NetApp Files (ANF)– a PaaS shared file service supporting both NFS/SMB protocols for enterprise workloads. NetApp technology is widely used in many on-premise deployments with Kubernetes and OpenShift today, however, the launch of ANF allows Azure users to take advantage of this ultra-low latency and high-performance platform without having to know ANY NetApp at all.
Let’s just recap on that again:
“without having to know ANY NetApp at all”