{"id":93,"date":"2021-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-25T03:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:22:26","slug":"the-wait-list-is-over-azure-netapp-files-is-enterpriseready-in-your-azure-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/the-wait-list-is-over-azure-netapp-files-is-enterpriseready-in-your-azure-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"The wait (list) is over: Azure NetApp Files is enterprise-ready in your Azure portal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Four years ago we imagined what many said would be impossible: build a fully-managed, on-premises-like storage infrastructure service for the most demanding mission-critical workloads in Azure and make it available on-demand<\/a>, anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would need speed, security, and scalability. We would need to pass the most stringent certifications and compliance criteria. And we would need to make it simple. IT specialists with minimal knowledge of storage should be able to migrate core workloads to Azure with little to no risk and manage those workloads in a seamless and deeply integrated way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We announced the general availability of Azure NetApp Files<\/a> in May 2019. Since then, we have worked with customers to successfully migrate and run some of their most important production workloads. Today, we are announcing<\/a> the removal of the waiting list for this service. The capabilities, scale, performance, and cost-efficiency of Azure NetApp Files are unmatched in the cloud for ONTAP\u00ae workloads, and we look forward to continuing our work with customers to enable their most demanding applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First-party service in Azure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We delivered Azure NetApp Files as a Microsoft service, bringing together NetApp\u2019s 30 plus years of ONTAP\u00ae innovation on bare-metal systems and Azure\u2019s networking and service management experience. Our joint engineering teams worked hand-in-hand to deliver a great customer experience and ensure that we provided every feature an enterprise would need to trust their core, mission-critical workloads on the cloud. These are systems that run the lifeblood of any enterprise: sales orders, product development, finance, forecasting, supply chain, predictive analytics, imagery, robotics; even high-performing SAP, HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server database workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We addressed cost by introducing three performance tiers. We designed the service to meet or exceed the scale and performance requirements of large and performance-sensitive applications. Customers can store up to 10 PB in a single deployment. They are achieving up to 4.4 GBps of throughput and consistent low latency as low as sub-ms with full data durability. And they have embraced Azure NetApp Files for their SAP workloads since it is the only Cloud File system certified for SAP HANA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past two-plus years since our GA, we have worked closely with customers to ensure the successful deployment and migration of their production workloads. We\u2019ve listened closely to our customers and have continued to improve the service. We continue to release new capabilities, including backup and restore, cross-region replication, snapshot policies, and additional protocol support. See the following documentation to find all the recent releases for Azure NetApp Files<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stories that prove our vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Customers of all sizes have embraced Azure NetApp Files for a wide variety of scenarios. Here are a few of our customer stories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n