Cloud Carib Joins NetApp Partner Program

Cloud Carib Ltd
announced availability of NetApp, Inc.
FAS and V-Series storage solutions in The Bahamas.

NetApp solutions deliver a mix of performance,
capacity scaling, and value to create an infrastructure foundation that
accelerates business growth.

"There are
so many efficiencies inherent in NetApp solutions, that the overall value
proposition is unmatched in the industry" stated Dr. Yannis Kalfoglou,
member of cloud Carib’s advisory board. "The new collaboration will allow cloud Carib to work closely with
NetApp’s Caribbean team to deliver agile data infrastructure solutions to cloud
Carib’s client base."

Bahamas Presentation
May 2013
The introductory presentation will take place in
Nassau on May 23.

Innovations
The new partnership enables cloud Carib to utilize
NetApp’s technology integrations with its existing partners VMware and Citrix,
delivering end-to-end, jointly-engineered solutions to its client base and
enabling virtualization of business-critical applications.

Storage for vSphere
Private clouds
Cloud Carib is currently the only enterprise VMware solution provider in The Bahamas.

NetApp storage for vSphere environments
delivers:

• Instantaneous backup and recovery
• Automation of labor-intensive data management tasks
• The ability to provision storage as fast as VMs
• Data deduplication across primary, backup, DR, and archival storage

Storage for Citrix VDI
Cloud Carib as a Silver Solution Advisor is certified
across the entire Citrix solutions range in The Bahamas, and experienced
with XenDesktop deployments.

With NetApp storage, Cloud Carib customers can now:

• Provision thousands of virtual desktops in minutes, with near-instant,
  low-overhead storage cloning.
• Use 50% less storage by eliminating redundant desktop and user data.
• Provide users continuous access with reliable storage optimized for VDI.
• Backup and secure end-user data in an instant, straight to the storage system

The IT landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift to
IT as a service, a model that requires a pool of compute, network, and storage
to serve a range of applications and deliver a range of services. Clustered Data ONTAP are fueling this innovation.

Key Facts:

• Since April 2005, IBM
  STG and NetApp have been partnered in an OEM relationship through which IBM is
  rebranding NetApp’s FAS series products as IBM N Series.
• NetApp has been
  recognized in multiple research reports, and industry distinctions, with the
  most recent ones by Gartner and IDC:
• Data ONTAP was recently named the #1 Branded
  Storage OS from IDC.
• In Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose
  Disk Arrays, NetApp was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant. Gartner stated that
  vendors in the Leaders Quadrant "have
  the highest scores for their ability to execute and completeness of vision"
• NetApp was identified by GovWin Consulting, the
  management consulting division of Deltek, Inc., as the top vendor serving the federal
  government’s information storage needs.