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FreeBSD Foundation Delivers V1 of FreeBSD SSDF Attestation to Support Cybersecurity Compliance

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

The SSDF Attestation continues the FreeBSD community’s longstanding commitment to security by providing transparency and trustworthiness in its software development environment.

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  • The SSDF Attestation continues the FreeBSD community’s longstanding commitment to security by providing transparency and trustworthiness in its software development environment.
  • First announced by the FreeBSD Foundation in November 2023 , the FreeBSD SSDF Attestation, which conforms to the CISA SSDF Self-Attestation , includes references and sources that validate the trustworthiness of the FreeBSD development process, offering partners and potential collaborators confidence in the community’s rigorous standards.
  • "The SSDF Attestation from the FreeBSD Foundation aligns with our commitment to deliver secure and reliable networking infrastructure.
  • This attestation enhances our credibility and demonstrates our adherence to rigorous security standards.”
    To learn more about the SSDF Attestation and the advantages of partnering with the FreeBSD Foundation, interested parties are encouraged to contact [email protected].

Joe Hand Promotions Launches New Business: OnTap Sports

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Joe Hand Promotions , the global leader in live sports viewing for the hospitality market which includes bars, restaurants, and casinos, is proud to announce the launch of its latest business, OnTap Sports .

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  • Joe Hand Promotions , the global leader in live sports viewing for the hospitality market which includes bars, restaurants, and casinos, is proud to announce the launch of its latest business, OnTap Sports .
  • Joe Hand Promotions has partnered with the world's most used sports bar finder, FANZO , to create the ultimate barfinder in the United States, OnTap Sports , which offers customers an enhanced platform to discover live sports events showing at local establishments.
  • In addition, Joe Hand Promotions’ customers can become a paid sponsored establishment to give their location premium placement on the OnTap Sports barfinder.
  • From our roots in selling content to bars, we've always hoped to provide a resource for all fans, ensuring they know exactly where to go to find their favorite events,” said Joe Hand, Jr., President of Joe Hand Promotions.

NetApp Partners with Google Cloud to Maximize Flexibility for Cloud Data Storage

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

NetApp and Google Cloud are announcing the Flex service level for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes which supports storage volumes of nearly any size.

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  • NetApp and Google Cloud are announcing the Flex service level for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes which supports storage volumes of nearly any size.
  • NetApp is also releasing a preview of its GenAI toolkit reference architecture for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) operations using Google Cloud Vertex AI platform.
  • Google Cloud and NetApp are announcing a new service level for NetApp Volumes called Flex that gives customers more granular control to adapt their storage and performance to match the exact needs of their cloud workloads.
  • “Google Cloud NetApp Volumes remains a critical component of every enterprise’s digital transformation strategy,” said Sameet Agarwal, GM/VP, Google Cloud Storage at Google Cloud.

NetApp Fights Ransomware in Real-Time with Built-In Artificial Intelligence on Enterprise Storage and Enhanced Cyber-Resiliency Solutions

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

NetApp is one of the first to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) directly into enterprise primary storage to fight ransomware in real-time.

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  • NetApp is one of the first to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) directly into enterprise primary storage to fight ransomware in real-time.
  • “NetApp is taking an aggressive and proactive approach to protecting our customers’ data against cyber threats using artificial intelligence.
  • We are the first storage vendor to explicitly and financially guarantee our data storage offerings against ransomware,” said Mignona Cote, CSO at NetApp.
  • NetApp Keystone Ransomware Recovery Guarantee extends NetApp’s current Ransomware Recovery Guarantee to our leading storage-as-a-service offering, NetApp Keystone.

NetApp and AWS Deliver a Nine Times Performance Increase for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced at re:Invent, scale-out FSx for ONTAP® file systems through its collaboration with AWS.

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  • NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced at re:Invent, scale-out FSx for ONTAP® file systems through its collaboration with AWS.
  • Scale-out file systems offer up to nine times higher storage performance compared to existing file systems, enabling customers to run high-performance applications on AWS more quickly and efficiently.
  • Organizations of all sizes are migrating on-premises workloads to AWS or deploying cloud native workloads to accelerate innovation, increase agility, improve security, and reduce costs.
  • With FSx for ONTAP, customers have access to the full range of ONTAP features.

NetApp Extends Partnership with Microsoft Empowering Customers to Achieve More Through Cloud Adoption

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Thursday, November 9, 2023

“Through our collaboration with Microsoft, we can deliver market-leading cloud storage and cloud infrastructure operations to our customers and partners that nobody else in the industry offers,” said Ronen Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage, NetApp. “NetApp is offering a robust set of capabilities--with ANF, NetApp BlueXP Hybrid data services, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and Spot. We innovate in collaboration with Microsoft Azure, offering customers unparalleled optimization to both storage and compute. We accelerate the move of the cloud of general file and enterprise workloads, and increasingly help customers with cloud native workloads, Kubernetes and AI.”

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  • NetApp delivers innovations to Microsoft Azure users that bring together solutions for cloud storage with Azure NetApp Files (ANF) NetApp BlueXP, and Cloud Volumes ONTAP and now CloudOps solutions from Spot by NetApp—all based on industry-leading NetApp and Microsoft technologies.
  • “NetApp is offering a robust set of capabilities--with ANF, NetApp BlueXP Hybrid data services, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and Spot.
  • “Azure NetApp Files continues to deliver ever-greater innovation to our customers as a result of our long-standing and fruitful partnership with NetApp,” said Aung Oo, General Manager for Microsoft Azure Storage.
  • “Our expanded Spot by NetApp portfolio on Microsoft Azure and partnership with Microsoft provides customers with what they need to continuously automate and optimize application infrastructure in the cloud and drive the cloud operation and cost efficiency their businesses demand while delivering the digital experience customers expect.”
    Spot by NetApp Cloud Ops solutions are available from Azure Marketplace, Microsoft Azure channel partners and NetApp and Azure NetApp Files is available through the Microsoft Azure portal as a native Azure service.

NetApp Announces VMware Sovereign Cloud Integration and Simplified Data Management for Modern Virtualized Applications

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global cloud-led, data centric software company, today announced NetApp StorageGRID for VMware Sovereign Cloud.

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  • NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global cloud-led, data centric software company, today announced NetApp StorageGRID for VMware Sovereign Cloud.
  • The NetApp plugin for VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension enables sovereign cloud customers to more cost-effectively store, secure, protect, and preserve unstructured data while meeting global data privacy and residency regulations.
  • VMware Sovereign Cloud providers commit to designing and operating cloud solutions based on modern, software-defined architectures that embody key principles and best practices outlined in the VMware Sovereign Cloud framework.
  • NetApp’s Sovereign Cloud integration with VMware Cloud Director will help customers simplify complex data environments and help ensure their data will stay secure and in compliance of the data sovereignty laws in their regions.”
    Today NetApp also announced a collaboration with VMware to modernize API integrations between NetApp ONTAP and VMware vSphere.

FreeBSD Foundation Announces SSDF Attestation

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Friday, November 3, 2023

BOULDER, Colo. and SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The FreeBSD Foundation, the public charity dedicated to advancing the open source FreeBSD operating system and supporting its community, today announced a new service to aid commercial users of FreeBSD with the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).

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  • BOULDER, Colo. and SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The FreeBSD Foundation, the public charity dedicated to advancing the open source FreeBSD operating system and supporting its community, today announced a new service to aid commercial users of FreeBSD with the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).
  • With governments around the world recognizing the ubiquity of open source, the importance of open source to innovate, and the need for security by design and default, the FreeBSD Foundation is proud to provide SSDF Attestation to our commercial partners,” said Ed Maste, Senior Director of Technology with the FreeBSD Foundation.
  • To ensure access to commercial users of all sizes, the FreeBSD SSDF Attestation report is available to all FreeBSD Foundation partners regardless of donation level: Silver, Gold, or Platinum.
  • "As a startup, the SSDF Attestation report from FreeBSD Foundation is a welcome help and important enabler to our Federal Government growth strategy."

NetApp Extends Its Storage Leadership and Innovation at INSIGHT 2023 with the Only Unified Data Storage Across On-premises and Public Cloud

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Today, NetApp extends the definition of unified data storage to an entire architecture that enables file, block, and object workloads.

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  • Today, NetApp extends the definition of unified data storage to an entire architecture that enables file, block, and object workloads.
  • Unified data storage provides a common storage operating system that spans multiple on-premises storage offerings and every major public cloud, unified by a common API set and single control plane.
  • This includes the leading unified all-Flash storage, NetApp AFF, the new block-optimized all-Flash storage, NetApp ASA, and the only first-party, cloud-native storage solutions running on all of the three largest public clouds with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Microsoft Azure NetApp Files, and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.
  • To better serve these customers and the overall block storage market, NetApp introduced the NetApp All-Flash SAN Array (ASA) earlier this year.

NetApp Advances the State of AI & Secure Infrastructure at INSIGHT 2023

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Yesterday at NetApp INSIGHT 2023, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian spoke to the ongoing innovation and partnership between NetApp and his company, highlighting the August 2023 introduction of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.

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  • Yesterday at NetApp INSIGHT 2023, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian spoke to the ongoing innovation and partnership between NetApp and his company, highlighting the August 2023 introduction of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.
  • Today, NetApp and Google are announcing support for Google Cloud’s Vertex AI with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes to support hybrid Generative AI applications.
  • Today, NetApp extended its Ransomware Recovery Guarantee is available for all on-premises NetApp ONTAP-based storage systems, including NetApp AFF, ASA and FAS.
  • NetApp can provide a single solution for DR from on premises to the cloud, minimizing the cost of providing standby DR infrastructure.