June 20179 The five principles are:1. Scale-Out: The Predictable growth of capacity and performance with guaranteed quality of service is an essential operative which makes a scale-out design critical to success.2. Guaranteed Performance: Legacy infrastructures were not designed to balance increased network capac-ity simultaneously with expected levels of service in large-scale cloud deployment. In the NGDC, resourc-es like CPU, memory, bandwidth, storage capacity, and storage performance are dynamically managed to deliver the application experience required and ex-pected. A successful NGDC model enables enterpris-es to access their data constantly and run applications at peak performance consistently even in the face of unexpected failures. 3. Automated Management: NGDC automation max-imizes business results with policy-driven provisioning and resource allocation, eliminating endpoint-centric administration. Automating tasks and orchestrating workflows are fundamental if service-delivery needs are expected to be met at scale.4. Data Assurance: NGDC data assurance includes seamless infrastructure resiliency without application configura-tion. This is a key attraction for businesses who demand complete data protection and security.5. Global Efficiencies: The traditional data center model was built on the premise that more capabilities would require more resources -- be it physical, fi-nancial, or human. In the NGDC, businesses are not burdened with excess IT resources. NGDC enables global efficiencies through improved utilization of server platforms, networks, and stor-age protocols, which trickles down to ven-dors and IT teams that support each layer.Why invest in the Next Generation Data Center?Transitioning out of legacy, monolithic data centers is a necessary step to raise your efficiency, productivity and increase organizational agility. In traditional data centers, each infrastructure component has an independent set of management software and inherent integration between hardware and applications. Time-consuming processes, human error, and a lack of agility are a hindrance to those responsible for managing legacy models. Dynamic workloads simply cannot scale in a traditional infrastructure without reconfiguration and hardware investments, putting more pressure on constrained IT time and budgets.A NGDC enables you to capitalize on the agility and elasticity of the cloud, resulting in cost-effective, on-demand IT services at scale. As a result, developers spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time doing what they were hired to do: innovate and accelerate your business. Hence, adopting a NGDC should not be seen as a cost, but as a solution for a company's business problem or as an opportunity to take advantage of new technologies and create new value propositions to their customers.Innovation at the heart of any CIO's missionToday's businesses have a unique opportunity to move up the value chain by simply transforming the backbone of their businesses­the data center.After all, in today's data-driven economies, data is a business asset, yielding high value when is applied creatively. The NGDC makes for a compelling business proposition by freeing IT bottlenecks through agility, speed, and scalability, laying the ground for innovation to take place. NGDC DATA ASSURANCE INCLUDES SEAMLESS INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCY WITHOUT APPLICATION CONFIGURATIONRick ScurfieldFounded in 1992 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, U.S., NetApp offers hybrid cloud data services to manage data and applications across the cloud and on-premises for acceleration of digital transformation.
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