Infrastructure as a Service

Provider of open source cloud computing software Cloud.com has joined the NetApp Alliance Partner Program, which provides qualified infrastructure and application providers with access to NetApp solutions, software development kits, technical support, training, and more.

“The NetApp Alliance Partner Program helps bring together solution providers that have a shared vision of helping customers get the most business value from their IT investments,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Corporate Alliances at NetApp.

As part of this partnership, Cloud.com’s Infrastructure as a Service platform CloudStack will integrate with NetApp storage systems and will simplify how customers can build, deploy and manage public and private cloud environments for improved IT flexibility and efficiency.

“Cloud.com’s membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program will help our customers achieve a faster time-to-market and improve IT flexibility and efficiency by combining leading cloud and storage infrastructure technology,” Rogers said.

Thanks to the integration with NetApp, Cloud.com can now directly integrate with the NetApp OnCommand management software. Company officials said that this will automate provisioning volumes on the storage system and also create Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) of administrator-specified sizes, and perform LUN masking.

Moreover, Cloud.com has also integrated, tested, and validated CloudStack with NetApp unified storage systems, enabling customers to continue to use the NetApp Data ONTAP platform.

For delivering all of the key components used to develop, deploy and manage any cloud environment, the CloudStack and NetApp collaboration provides a turnkey cloud infrastructure software stack – whether organizations are running private or public clouds.

“Data center infrastructure is facing a number of challenges as enterprises increasingly move to deploying on-premise clouds, making it even more important for leading companies like Cloud.com and NetApp to partner,” said Peder Ulander, chief marketing offer at Cloud.com.

Ulander said that by leveraging NetApp OnCommand management software, cloud architects can empower their users with self-service automation while improving storage and service efficiency through functions that help users control, automate, and analyze their secure, multi-tenant NetApp storage infrastructure.

Earlier this year in April, KT (News - Alert), a Korea-based landline operator and mobile service provider, selected CloudStack as the foundation for its public cloud offering, KT ucloud.