NetApp on Tuesday introduced the latest version of its flagship ONTAP software, as well as a number of updates to its portfolio of products designed to help organizations build a better hybrid cloud.

NetApp’s Cloud Insights monitoring and optimization tool provides instrumentation for infrastructure monitoring ranging from the physical to the application level.

Fylamynt is slated to automate CloudOps as part of NetApp’s Spot portfolio of cloud-native services.

The two companies announced that IT managers now can utilize their standard Microsoft management tools to monitor and manage virtual environments that include NetApp storage arrays.

With the introduction of Amazon FSx for NetApp Ontap, NetApp now offers cloud-native storage capabilities across all three type hyperscalers.

Hitachi Data Systems gets ready to launch a series of products that act as a gateway between its disk arrays and software from Network Appliance.

NetApp also recently released a revamped version of its Decru DataFort E-Series 3.0 firmware product for IP-based NAS (network-attached storage) and SAN (storage area network) environments.

The new NetApp Advanced Single Instance Storage (A-SIS) software provides de-duplication across NetApps NearStore R200 and FAS storage systems, the company said.

EMC and Network Appliance each released software products that can be used to manage unstructured files, a key requirement for complying with everchanging government regulations.

Hitachi Data Systems gets ready to launch a series of products that act as a gateway between its disk arrays and software from Network Appliance.