NetApp becomes an AWS Government ISV Competency Partner

"With this competency, users can confidently run file shares and block-level storage serving NAS and SAN protocols such as NFS, SMB, and iSCSI," said Amy Belcher, leader, ISV Sales and Go To Market Strategy at AWS.

As an AWS Partner Network Technology Partner and AWS Public Sector Partner, NetApp can help you extend your unstructured data, databases, and applications to AWS. "You can migrate any workload more easily with the right file services tool," says Ronen Schwartz, senior vice president and general manager of Cloud Volumes at NetApp. "Consider NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, a storage service that unifies data management across the hybrid cloud, letting you make the most of your agency's storage infrastructure."

The benefits of easily scaling storage on AWS are borne out by customers' experiences. When the pandemic struck, educational technology company Blackboard saw usage of its virtual classroom tool expand by more than 45 times in less than 3 weeks. Turning to NetApp and AWS, Blackboard quickly responded and continued to provide 100% uptime for learners.

"In the cloud, we're able to use orchestration and automation by leveraging NetApp ONTAP APIs to deliver on storage in a matter of hours. And that was the difference between success in continued education and catastrophic failure," says Kris Stokking, vice president of Software Engineering at Blackboard.