SOLUTION BRIEF Cloud Volumes Service for Cloud

Enterprise-grade shared file storage for your most demanding applications Today’s enterprises must be agile and adaptable enough to meet changing business and customer Key features needs. For many businesses, that means transitioning • 70% lower cloud storage infrastructure cost to cloud services to accelerate digital transformation. • 30 times faster application development with Despite growing cloud adoption, most traditional rapid copy enterprise applications still run on premises. • Fully managed service integrated into the Google To migrate these applications to the cloud, Cloud console organizations need to modernize, acquire new knowledge, and update policies. This approach can • Multiprotocol support (NFS, SMB/CIFS) make the cloud journey seem slow, expensive, and • Data protection with NetApp® snapshot™ complex. But it doesn’t have to be that way. copies, zone redundancy, and volume replication and backup NetApp and Google Cloud have collaborated to create NetApp® Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, a fully managed file storage service that simplifies how you migrate and run enterprise NetApp and Google Cloud = better together workloads in the cloud. Cloud Volumes Service includes out-of-the- capabilities such as The partnership of NetApp and Google Cloud multiprotocol support, data protection, storage has always been focused on easing migration efficiency, cloning, and more—all with the scale, to the cloud and helping you get the most value availability, security, and performance you need for from your data while lowering IT costs. We’ve an array of enterprise workloads. known from the start that our complementary strengths could benefit our customers. When you Migrate and modernize enterprise applications combine Google Cloud’s robust infrastructure and Modernize your business-critical applications and rich analytics with NetApp enterprise-class data migrate to Google Cloud confidently. With support management services, you get co-engineered, for NFS and SMB/CIFS, Cloud Volumes Service advanced services that help fulfill the promise of for Google Cloud allows you to move more of cloud—faster and more easily—for even the most your file-based applications to the cloud without complex enterprise apps. rearchitecting. You get reliable, affordable persistent storage for your applications without the complexity.

Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is capacity fit for your workload and adjust as your integrated into the Google Cloud console. It’s a fully application changes. Performance for each cloud managed service with billing from Google, world- volume scales with the amount of allocated capacity, class support managed by Google Cloud, and so you can increase or decrease allocated capacity enables you to configure access for specific roles. dynamically as your data grows—without having to Cloud Volumes Service lets you do the following: worry about adding or deleting underlying nodes. • Build and deploy both Windows-based and - based applications. Get cloud-native storage for cloud-native applications • Schedule snapshot copies of your cloud volumes Organizations are developing new applications and restore them to keep your data protected. and rewriting old ones to run in containers with • Replicate a volume from one region to another for . These production cloud-native . applications typically have a strong requirement • Back up a volume to Google Cloud storage for more for reliable data storage. In a Kubernetes workload protection. environment, it’s especially critical to ensure that • Deploy a volume across multiple zones in a Google data is easy to back up and restore, and is always Cloud region for greater availability. available, consistent, and durable.

With four service levels (Standard, Standard-SW, Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud delivers Premium, and Extreme) that can be changed on protected persistent data storage, allowing pods demand, you can find the right performance and and containers within Kubernetes to take advantage

2 Solution Brief of the enterprise data protection capabilities in their data, and can adjust capacity based on their Google Cloud. It also allows you to create Snapshot specific application requirements. copies and restore them back to the original source volume or to a new volume. The solution fully For their first application, the healthcare company supports NFS, which is often the preferred platform used Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud to for Kubernetes deployments. deliver highly available NAS-encrypted storage for application binaries. They started with 10TB of Storage efficiency is also important in Kubernetes storage and quickly expanded to over 100TB. The environments due to the inherent scalability of company expected the migration to take 6 months containers. With Cloud Volumes Service for Google and was extremely pleased when they moved their Cloud, you can spin up new volumes within minutes first application to Google Cloud in just 2 weeks. to handle an increase in workloads and to provide greater redundancy and availability. Then, to save Customer snapshot: Retail money, you can quickly spin down volumes when A global retail analytics expert uses millions of files to they’re not needed. help traditional retailers improve profits through their Internet of Things (IoT) devices and comprehensive Customer snapshot: Healthcare analytics suite. To increase business agility and A Fortune 500 global healthcare services company platform efficiency, the company decided to move migrated 100% of their applications to Google Cloud their files from on-premises storage to Google Cloud. to simplify operations. The company, which uses SAP, As part of the shift, they needed to adopt a reliable used Cloud Volumes Service to deliver simple, easy- cloud storage service to manage the raw data from to-consume NFS and SMB/CIFS endpoints running their IoT devices in the cloud. in Google Cloud. They pay only for the storage they use, can change performance tiers without moving

3 Solution Brief The company selected Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud to improve their analytics application Are you ready to get started? performance, reduce overhead costs, and improve NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud the efficiency of their cloud operations. The solution removes the complexity associated with running supported their NFS and SMB application protocols enterprise applications that require file storage and allowed them to provision new storage volumes in the cloud, enabling you to get up and running easily and autonomously. It also let them deliver the quickly and easily. high availability they need across Google Cloud regions. Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud To learn more, visit our Cloud Volumes Service helped the company keep their customer’s raw data page. Or, if you’re ready to get started, check out secure, efficiently stored, and easily accessible. The our free trial today. fully managed service was able to meet their high service-level object (SLO) and SLA requirements and deliver 99.9% availability across Google Cloud regions. They were also able to automate the process of relegating less important data to a lower-performance storage tier, saving them both time and money.

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