15636-2 - Databases with NetApp ONTAP in Public and Private Clouds

Cloud-based infrastructures are becoming easier to deploy and are delivering more and more value to real customers every day. The benefits are especially compelling for data-intensive environments such as databases. On-demand provisioning of compute resources allows a quicker response to changing business needs, while reducing license costs. Even more important, the advanced on-demand data management capabilities of NetApp ONTAP can combine with the on-demand compute abilities of a cloud infrastructure to take the benefits even further. It's easier to scale out, backups become faster and simpler to manage and disaster recovery can be a pushbutton procedure—all at lower costs than traditional approaches. Complicated needs such as DevOps and scale-out replication of database and application deployments become easier and allow users to create wholly new services. New technologies such as Docker are also starting to disrupt the traditional cloud architecture. This session will focus on real-world cloud deployments (including both public and private cloud options) in production with real customers. The focus is equally split between the business value of these approaches and the high-level technical implementation. We will discuss both Oracle and Microsoft SQL, but the principles apply to almost any database environment.