NetApp Bulks Up Cloud Operations Portfolio With Instaclustr

NetApp announced on April 7 that it is buying Instaclustr. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.

Instaclustr delivers data-layer-as-a-service solutions. NetApp intends to use those capabilities to create “a cloud operations platform that provides the best and most optimized foundation for … applications in the public clouds and on-premises,” per a statement from NetAPP CEO George Kurian.

NetApp will use Instaclustr to target enterprises that use apps in the public cloud or on-premises. Combining the two companies’ platforms will allow users to reduce cloud complexity “while eliminating vendor lock-in risks and the high costs of building and maintaining that same expertise internally,” said Ben Bromhead, CTO and co-founder at Instaclustr.

NetApp will fold Instaclustr into its Spot by NetApp portfolio, which offers cloud cost control and optimization. CloudCheckr, of course, now lives in that same group.

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