CIOs and IT leaders should not be migrating everything toward cloud services, nor should they wait for the market to settle. A prudent data center strategy incorporates the best of both worlds. Here's how.

This CIO Guide examines several innovative solutions from NetApp that enable organizations to leverage Microsoft Azure in a hybrid cloud environment. NetApp AltaVault helps organizations to lower costs and reduces backup and archiving risks, while NetApp Private Storage for Microsoft Azure improves disaster recovery and deploys primary enterprise workloads.

This Forrester research report emphasizes that how CIOs handle storage will heavily influence their cloud success. Henry Baltazar of Forrester claims that although the road to hybrid clouds will not be short or easy, hybrid clouds are the future state of compute and storage for enterprises.

Protecting against the loss of critical data should be one of the highest priorities of business and IT leaders today. This white paper examines some of the key challenges that enterprises face as they try to protect their data, and how NetApp® solutions can help them meet these challenges cost-effectively.

This white paper examines how existing data protection strategies can prove to be unsuitable or are not optimized for new production capabilities. Important trends are converging, which creates chaos and great change for businesses across all industries. Taken together, these trends add up to 10 critical reasons to transform your data protection strategy.

This white paper, written by Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst Jason Buffington, explores the data protection spectrum and how NetApp delivers integrated data protection offerings.

This IDC Infographic examines trends regarding cloud backup and data protection and how organizations can benefit from NetApp's SnapProtect backup management software and AltaVault cloud-integrated storage.

This IDC Technology Spotlight examines trends regarding cloud backup and data protection and how NetApp's SnapProtect backup management software and AltaVault cloud-integrated storage can play a role in simplifying the effort.

This eBook provides an overview of cloud-integrated backup solutions. It shows how you can improve your backup performance and reduce IT costs without sacrificing security.

This CIO Guide examines several innovative solutions from NetApp that enable organizations to leverage Microsoft Azure in a hybrid cloud environment. NetApp AltaVault helps organizations to lower costs and reduces backup and archiving risks, while NetApp Private Storage for Microsoft Azure improves disaster recovery and deploys primary enterprise workloads.

ESG published white paper focusing on NetApp Flash Strategy and Offerings—a Breadth of Choice. NetApp supports hybrid infrastructures—including cloud as needed—in both principle and in fact. Within that infrastructure, it offers a portfolio of differentiated solutions—multiple all-flash arrays, and multiple hybrid flash arrays—that enable NetApp’s customers to integrate flash into their enterprises in whatever way makes the most sense for their business, needs, and options/constraints. NetApp has been a leading trailblazer in flash for some years now: it is to be applauded for thinking broadly and not just following the herd to certify an SSD or two into its storage boxes.