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back to article It was always Azure thing: NetApp floats boxen into Microsoft's cloud

NetApp is setting up a speedy connection to Microsoft’s Azure cloud so its arrays can have an Azure backend for scaling up capacity, archiving, DR and enabling workload moves. NetApp Private Storage (NPS) for Azure relies on a NetApp box in a managed services type data centre or colo centre like those Equinix operates. A …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Bearing in mind that Azure storage is quite a lot faster than Amazon S3, this is good news...

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  2. EddieD

    Hmmm.

    If you flip through Dante's Inferno, you'll find a short passage in the 6th circle that says

    but the ultimate wrath and scorn

    is reserv'd for those would boxen say...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Hmmm.

      Net App arn't so bad. At least its not Apple or IBM boxen...

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    So much for Cloud computing killing NetApp

    So much for Cloud computing killing NetApp.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Hmm, as a NetApp customer I asked for some details on how I could connect to AWS. Not one person could advise technically or commercially how this would work. In the end I had to adopt a local solution for my problem.

    They way I see it is that NetApp (and other vendors) shout loudly about their 'cloudy' abilities but when testedm the reality is just a bunch of hot air.

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