NetApp Shuts Down Its Spot PC VDI Business

‘We continue to sharpen our prioritization efforts to focus only on those high value and growth areas of the business, which is why we’re exiting the Cloud Desktop product category, which includes Spot PC. We’re confident these moves will bolster NetApp’s dominant market position, and help our customers take full advantage of the cloud,’ says NetApp in a statement to CRN. ARTICLE TITLE HERE Share this Storage and cloud management technology developer NetApp has quietly shut down its Spot PC virtual desktop technology business, CRN has learned. NetApp Friday confirmed the move to CRN via an emailed statement not attributed to any executive. Spot PC, which was unveiled in July 2021 , brought together two 2020 NetApp acquisitions into a new cloud-based desktop-as-a-service offering targeting MSPs. [Related: NetApp CEO George Kurian: Dell, HPE Are ‘Doing What We Did In 2014’ ] They included Spot , which drives continuous workload optimization in a public cloud while ensuring that applications follow customer service-level agreements and service-level objectives. It takes advantage of compute spot instances available from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Those spot instances gave the company its name. Advertisement The second is CloudJumper , which developed […]

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