HotLink Corporation today
announced a secure, high performance hybrid IT solution spanning VMware
environments and Amazon Web Services using NetApp® Private Storage for
Amazon Web Services and HotLink’s award-winning transformation
technology and VMware vCenter plug-in solutions. The solution integrates
the market-leading VMware vCenter management with enterprise-proven
NetApp Private Storage for Amazon Web Services (AWS); low-cost,
pay-as-you-go computing of Amazon EC2; and high-speed, low-latency AWS
Direct Connect. The result is a fully integrated, high-performance
hybrid IT infrastructure for VMware environments with a total cost of
ownership that is second to none.
NetApp Private Storage for AWS enables enterprises to build an agile
infrastructure that accommodates a mix of VMware and AWS resources to
best meet business needs and economic interests while providing control
and data mobility. When combined with qualified AWS direct Connect
service providers, customers have sub-5 millisecond response times
between NetApp storage and AWS for the lowest latency hybrid IT
environment available. HotLink’s patented transformation technology
provides the management and workload interoperability between VMware and
AWS that completes the solution stack providing easy and
cost-effective, hybrid on- and off- premises use cases, including
comprehensive data protection and cloud bursting for VMware customers.
“In order to gain the full benefits of flexibility, scalability and
cost savings of public cloud, IT administrators need methods and
technologies to combine public cloud and private data center resources
in a holistic fashion,” said Lee Gates, director Cloud Solutions at
NetApp. “By leveraging HotLink, NetApp, AWS and Direct Connect, we offer
customers unified hybrid management, workload portability, complete
data control, low-latency data transfer, and the attractive economics
and scalable compute power of AWS.”
Key use cases for enterprises and service providers include disaster
recovery and business continuity, cloud bursting for peak load, and
development and test — all benefiting from the high-performance,
low-cost hybrid IT solution. Capabilities include:
- The security, flexibility and scale of NetApp Private Storage for AWS extended to VMware environments;
- The ability to dynamically adjust private infrastructure and public
cloud resources and easily manage the hybrid pool using customers’
on-premise VMware vCenter infrastructure;
- Operational recovery in Amazon EC2 within minutes of an on-premises VMware failure;
- Complete data control and low-latency data transfer using NetApp Private Storage for AWS;
- Fully integrated and automated bi-directional workload conversions between on-premises VMware and off-premises AWS; and
- When combined with qualified AWS Direct Connect service providers, the lowest latency hybrid environment available.
Brian Lillie, chief information officer at Equinix, an
interconnection data center and global colocation service and AWS Direct
Connect provider, said, “We find many enterprises are looking for
methods to leverage public cloud more fully for a number of use cases,
including disaster recovery and business continuity. Our customers gain
greater efficiencies and costs savings when we can combine the speed of
Direct Connect with the high-performance of NetApp Private Storage for
AWS, and the complete integration and interoperability to on-premises
VMware management environments using HotLink.” Lillie recently joined
HotLink’s CIO advisory board, which includes CIOs from industry-leading
companies such as Facebook, ETRADE, Clorox, AstraZeneca, Citrix, BMC and
more.
HotLink also announced today its membership in the NetApp Alliance
Partner Program. HotLink will continue to work with NetApp to ensure
tight integration between HotLink solutions and NetApp Private Storage
for AWS to dramatically simplify IT management and reduce the cost of
hybrid computing infrastructures.
“AWS provides practically unlimited compute resources at a trivial
cost that’s affordable for any size IT shop. However, integrating
existing data center operations with public cloud resources and managing
data and workloads across both platforms historically posed huge IT
challenges,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and founder of HotLink. “By
combining HotLink’s transformation technology and NetApp Private Storage
for AWS, companies can unify hybrid management, easily move workloads,
retain control of their data and leverage AWS’s scalable compute power
and unique pay-as-you-go economics — all critical components of an
effective hybrid IT strategy.”
Availability
The solution is immediately available through a network of VARs in North America, including Blue River Information Technology, Clearpath Solutions Group, Day1 Solutions and Integrated Archive Systems.
HotLink will demonstrate its hybrid management solutions and NetApp
Private Storage for AWS integration at re:Invent booth #1014 and at
NetApp booth #301 in Las Vegas from November 12 to 15, 2013.