Many organizations wait until performance problems or budget overruns appear before they act, but by then the issues are usually more disruptive and expensive to fix. In a hybrid multicloud environment, you’re likely dealing with: - Multiple datacenters (on-premises and in the cloud) - Different vendors and platforms - Separate, sometimes costly observability tools for each environment This leads to complexity, higher OPEX, and growing personnel costs—often under shrinking IT budgets. By optimizing and right-sizing now, you can: - Identify and reclaim wasted or idle resources across compute and storage - Defer new on-premises hardware purchases by using what you already have more efficiently - Prepare workloads for future cloud migrations with fewer surprises With NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights, organizations typically: - Reduce future infrastructure costs by an average of **30%** through right-sizing (from individual VMs and containers up to entire clusters) - Cut troubleshooting time by up to **90%** by quickly pinpointing where issues originate (storage, network, client, or application) - Manage demand more effectively by reducing compute and storage over-allocation Addressing optimization proactively helps you keep performance steady, control costs, and avoid last-minute, reactive fixes that can be more disruptive to your business.

NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights is designed to help you both control costs and improve performance by giving you clear visibility into how your virtualized infrastructure is being used. Here’s how it helps: 1. **Right-sizing and cost control** - Identifies over-allocated compute and storage resources so you can right-size VMs, containers, and clusters. - Helps you reclaim unused or idle resources to reduce cloud spend or delay new on-premises investments. - Aligns physical and cloud infrastructure with actual requirements, helping you avoid unnecessary license and capacity costs. - Customers typically see an average **30%** reduction in future costs through right-sizing. 2. **Performance optimization and faster troubleshooting** - Monitors your entire heterogeneous IT landscape—from local storage arrays and VMware clusters to Kubernetes and cloud compute. - Analyzes infrastructure topology so you can see which workloads run on which components and for which teams or applications. - Projects storage usage ("time-to-full") and shows how it will affect other resources. - Identifies “greedy” or degraded shared resources and correlates changes with performance impact. - This level of insight can reduce troubleshooting time by up to **90%**, helping teams resolve issues faster. 3. **Ease of use and adoption** - Uses a standardized, user-friendly data model across platforms. - Simple query and dashboarding capabilities reduce the need for intensive reskilling. - Guided workflows help your team move from issue detection to resolution more quickly. 4. **Support for modernization and cloud strategy** - Makes it easier to analyze workloads for optimization and migration, so you can move the right workloads to the right storage tier or cloud platform. - Helps you reimagine how you operate infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud, with visibility from a few clusters up to hundreds or thousands. In short, Data Infrastructure Insights gives you the data and context you need to make informed decisions about where to cut waste, where to invest, and how to keep your VMware and hybrid cloud environments running efficiently.

The Virtualization Modernization Assessment is a structured evaluation that helps you understand the current state of your virtualized environment so you can plan a realistic and cost-effective future state. It is delivered as part of the NetApp Architecture and Design Service and focuses on giving you clear, data-driven insights rather than generic recommendations. Here’s what it involves and how it helps: 1. **Detailed utilization mapping** - Every VM in scope is mapped on two key axes: **CPU utilization** and **memory utilization**. - Utilization is typically measured over **14 days** on an hourly basis, giving you a more accurate picture than a one-time snapshot. 2. **Actionable insights for on-prem optimization** - You see which VMs are over-allocated and which are under-resourced. - This helps you right-size workloads, reduce waste, and improve performance on your existing infrastructure. - You can use these insights to defer hardware purchases and better align workloads with the right storage tiers. 3. **Informed cloud migration planning** - During the workshop, NetApp experts walk through the findings with you and discuss both on-premises optimization and cloud migration options. - You get guidance on which workloads are good candidates for cloud, and what sizing and resource profiles they should have once migrated. - This reduces the trial-and-error that often comes with moving vSphere workloads to the cloud. 4. **Cost mitigation and risk reduction** - By understanding your current state in detail, you can plan changes that mitigate cost and reduce operational risk. - The assessment supports a more predictable path to modernization, rather than ad-hoc changes. Combined with a **30-day free trial** of Data Infrastructure Insights, the assessment gives your team both the tools and the expert guidance to optimize today’s environment and plan for tomorrow’s hybrid multicloud strategy with more confidence.