NetApp Alliance
Gale Technologies is an Advantage Alliance Partner with NetApp, a leading innovator of storage and data management solutions.
Collaboration
Gale Technologies is collaborating with NetApp to integrate the GaleForce automation software with NetApp’s open-management APIs and to deliver the GaleForce Turnkey Cloud Solution for customers. With this partnership, customers will be able to implement private and hybrid cloud solutions in just two steps and as little as two weeks, to dramatically accelerate IT service delivery.
The GaleForce software is an advanced infrastructure provisioning and orchestration framework that provides template-based automated provisioning of bare metal, physical, and virtual resources, spanning across storage, networking, computing, and virtualization technologies. The GaleForce Turnkey Cloud Solution for NetApp is a solution bundle that includes the GaleForce software and new GaleForce resource adapters for the NetApp® Data ONTAP® and OnCommandTMsoftware interfaces, and support for the NetApp Storage Service Catalog. With these GaleForce resource adapters for NetApp storage products, together with adapters for compute and network resources, and pre-built automation workflows, organizations gain newfound agility and simplicity that allows them to easily define service-level templates for storage services and publish them to the GaleForce self-service catalog. The GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for NetApp therefore provides a ready-made solution for three of NetApp’s main tenets of the path to a private cloud – Automation, Service Catalog, and Self-Service Enablement.
Solution Highlights:
Compute, Network, and Storage Services Catalog
Easily define service-level (gold, silver, bronze) templates of compute, network, and NetApp storage services and publish them to the GaleForce self-service catalog.
Automated Provisioning and Orchestration of Heterogeneous Environments
Automate the provisioning of any workload environment at any scale across multiple vendors and technologies.
Geographically Distributed Clouds
Consolidate physically separated labs or data centers into common pools of resources that can be accessed by users anywhere in the world. Burst into a public cloud when needed.
Supported Products from Gale Technologies and NetApp:
NetApp Products
FAS6200 series
FAS6000 series
FAS3200 series
FAS3100 series
FAS2000 series
V-Series
NetApp OnCommand
NetApp ONTAPI
NetApp VSC Plug-in API
Gale Products
GaleForce Server
GaleForce Turnkey Cloud
GaleForce Control Center
GaleForce Web Portal
GaleForce Resource Adapters for NetApp
GaleForce Resource Adapters for servers, virtualization, and networking
GaleForce Resource Adapters for public cloud APIs
VMworld 2011
Gale Technologies will be demonstrating the integrated GaleForce Turnkey Cloud Solution at VMworld 2011, in Las Vegas from August 29 to September 1, in booth 871. Gale will also be participating in NetApp’s booth 402.
Learn More
To learn more about the GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for NetApp, view this youtube video, and read the press release.
