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Dave Vellante, Co-founder of Wikibon spoke with Rich Clifton, Vice President of Solutions Integration Group with NetApp, at the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Customer Event.

Clifton reports that they are out talking about agile data infrastructures and how customers can really create cloud environments. Additionally, people are standing up extreme scale, big data environments. He explains agile data infrastructure, "From our perspective an agile data infrastructure is one where you can take the infrastructure and scale it, expect it to be up indefinitely and consume it with new things that you're standing up in IT. It's not about procuring infrastructure for each IT project, its about having an infrastructure you can consume, that you can move to an on demand kind of a consumption model."

Many companies make similar claims regarding infrastructure, Clifton explains what makes NetApp unique, "We have the number one storage operating system in the industry in Data ONTAP. It's newer versions allow for the creation of an infrastructure which spans multiple platforms, multiple boxes and allows it to live on through things like new upgrades, new hardware infusion and just be able to be an infrastructure." This is completely different from the way people have done storage or IT infrastructures in the past by allowing it to flow together with virtualization and Oracle RAC.

Clifton discusses the strategy of NetApp's acquisition of Engenio, "People are creating clouds, mixed, shared infrastrucutres of different kinds of workloads: databases, putting together virtualized applications, creating private clouds, also sitting in service providers is public clouds. Beside that, there are some environments, large scale contact repositories, large scale data warehouses where people want to create dedicated infrastructures and the data management is in the application layer." The price performance and density characteristics of the E-Series platform is considered the best match for that environment.

Hybrid clouds are a major factor in the marketplace and a trend that has to do with infrastructure at the next level. Oracle's cloud strategy is quite clear, to essentially build private and public clouds with an all red stack. Clifton responds to the marketing/technology initiative that Oracle is laying down, "We think that cloud is a broad industry trend. It's no surprise that Oracle is also focusing on this, just as every major supplier is. The issue for a customer is, how do you mix together technologies and blend them from multiple, different places?" Oracle is looking at red stacks, however, there are customers who want to blend different technologies together. Partnerships give customers more options.

NetApp has Flash offerings in their storage processors and also that can be put into their shells that can both be expanded at-will. Clifton continues, "The key to Flash is making sure that you have a deep integration with the end-to-end data management, so that I can use Flash in my host to accellerate my database applications or my virtualization applications." Integration is a key part of getting the high value on data management as well as price performance.