NetApp Collaborates with Talon Storage to Bring ROBO Capabilities

By Cloud Computing Outlook | Monday, May 25, 2020

Talon Storage is the software developer that consolidates data from multiple remote and branch offices into a centralized location, which is managed and then made accessible to users outside the central office

Fremont, CA: In a bid to centralize data from multiple offices to the cloud, NetApp, a hybrid cloud data services and data management company, acquired Talon Storage. Talon Storage is the software developer that consolidates data from multiple remote and branch offices into a centralized location, which is managed and then made accessible to users outside the central office.

Talon Storage's technology complements NetApp in what it has been doing with its customers via Data Fabric technology, said Vikram Bhatia, vice president of the go-to-market strategy for cloud and partnerships at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based NetApp.

"Talon offers a remote office, back-office solution which consolidates data from multiple locations," Bhatia said. "The majority of our customers and Talon's customers look to do this on the cloud."

From small businesses working from just a few locations to companies with multiple offices from international locations, all are looking to synchronize their data and move to the centralized solutions and share to local caches for fast local access, Bhatia said.

The FAST technology of Talon Storage has already started working with NetApp's cloud technologies. NetApp is working to integrate the technology with its single management layer and single user interface, he said. "A majority of Talon's installed base and upcoming customers already work with NetApp Cloud Volumes Services, Azure NetApp Files, and Cloud Volumes Ontap," he said. On these services, Talon makes a great fit."

Some of NetApp's top channel partners said they are thrilled to see NetApp acquire Talon Storage as it will pave the way for new opportunities with a broad range of potential customers. Talon Storage is bridging the big gap in NetApp's offerings, said Glenn Dekhayser, field chief technology officer at Red8, a Costa Mesa, Calif.-based solution provider and long-term NetApp channel partner.

"If there's a large national or international company with global data, they need to replicated data and send it to remote offices," Dekhayser told. "And customers today want to store that data in the cloud and make it available to the edge and managed with file locking and fast caches. NetApp has its FlexCache technology, but it works only for NFS (network file system) data."