Interview with a NetApp Cloud Architect | VMGuru TV
Posted on April 19, 2021 • 2 min read • 255 words
A couple of months ago, Alex and I were talking about the ‘vMotion’ of Dimitri de Swart from VMware to NetApp. We wanted to know why anyone would move from a virtualization company to a ’legacy’ storage vendor. Luckily Dimitri wrote a rather extensive post on the whole matter called ‘ Perception is Everything ’. Still, we had some questions left. And what else could we do then ask the man himself? So we did.
We talked about this in episode 5 of VMGuru TV, in which we hear firsthand what made him make the switch, but also the answer to the question “What does a storage vendor like NetApp deliver in a cloud world?”
A quick dive into the subjects we touch:
- Who is Dimitri de Swart?
- Where did he come from?
- NetApp vision on cloud
- NetApp Spot? What’s that?
- Who manages the Spot service?
- Do you give all your data to NetApp? (spoiler, no, you don’t) / Compliancy
- NetApp Cloud Insight
- private storage
- Cloud Volumes on Azure, AWS and others
- NetApp Files
- Data fabric
- Data locality
- ‘give the infrastructure what it needs. not what a developer thinks it needs’
- cloud and high availability
After watching the video and still think NetApp doesn’t belong in your list of vendors that can make a difference in your cloud strategy? Don’t hesitate to ask him yourself in the comments below or on YouTube .