Arrow NetApp podcasts

Powered by NVIDIA DGX systems and NetApp cloud-connected all-flash storage, NetApp ONTAP AI helps fully realize the promise of AI and deep learning (DL). To assist customers in jumpstarting their AI initiatives, NetApp and NVIDIA have partnered with Arrow to offer new, simplified, bundled solutions based on their reference architecture: ONTAP AI-integrated solutions. Listen to learn more!

Host bios:


Ryan Rascop
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Ryan is an accomplished engineer with a combined 12 years at Arrow, focused on multiple storage suppliers. As a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow channel partner, he helps support growth in their NetApp storage, cloud solutions, and data management business. Ryan is passionate about creating technical and sales enablement programs, such as Arrow Quick Hits, as well as creating content with a focus on simplicity and ease of consumption. Ryan consistently continues to accelerate his knowledge of all things data center, most recently around NVIDIA solutions. Rascop was selected as a President’s Club MVP pick for the NetApp line of business for 2019.

Russ Braden
Lead Solutions Architect, Arrow
Russ is a seasoned data center technologist with over 20 years’ experience, having worked for companies such as Dell, EMC (before merger), and American Power Conversion (by Schneider Electric). He has been part of the Arrow engineering team for 13 years, providing Arrow channel partners with technical enablement and support on technologies like NetApp’s data management, storage, and cloud solutions. More recently, he has supported NVIDIA solutions for AI, HPC analytics, as well as enterprise-level professional graphics, VR/AR, and VDI. Russ has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Hampton University and a master’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland. His current research and learning focus is around all things NVIDIA and other data intelligence solutions from providers within the Arrow supplier line card.

Arrow Quick Hits: NetApp ONTAP AI - integrated solutions

Cloud volume ONTAP brings 25 years of developed intellectual property to efficiency manage data in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Learn how effortless the deployment and management of Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) is both in the public cloud and on-prem, as well as how partners can make money selling NetApp products like CVO.

Host bio

Nadine Cummings
Presales Solutions Manager, Arrow
As a leader in the Arrow Engineering organization, Nadine's role as a Technical Solutions Manager involves building strategies and practices across the enterprise data center infrastructure. With over 10 years of experience, she continues advocating and delivering technical awareness and the vision of digital transformation to our partners.

How much can a partner really make selling NetApp cloud services?

In this podcast, we will recap the top alliance plays and partnerships with NetApp.

Host bio

Nadine Cummings
Presales Solutions Manager, Arrow
As a leader in the Arrow Engineering organization, Nadine's role as a Technical Solutions Manager involves building strategies and practices across the enterprise data center infrastructure. With over 10 years of experience, she continues advocating and delivering technical awareness and the vision of digital transformation to our partners.

Top Alliances With NetApp

In this simulcast of Arrow bandwidth and our US team Arrow’s NetApp Quick Hits Mark Carlton  EMEA Solution Architect IoT 7 Edge at Arrow ECS EMEA (@mcarlton1983)  and Ryan Rascop Technical Solutions Engineer at Arrow Electronics (@R2_Arrow)  and myself Ruairi McBride TAM at Arrow ECS UK sit down and discuss NetApp INSIGHT. Recorded on the 30th Oct day 3 of the conference, we delve into several of the main announcements made during our time in Las Vegas covering Keystone and the New AFF/FAS models. We discuss the Mega-Sessions and their content, and the focus towards AI at the conference as well as Arrows booth during the event. Finally the Hybrid cloud message that NetApp are now going to market with and what it means to our customers.

Bandwidth at NetApp Insights

In this episode of Arrow Bandwidth, we will discuss NetApp’s new, mid-range to high-end FAS and mid-range AFF systems. These new models are simple, efficient and versatile; and they offer more capacity and greater IO scaling to your customers than ever before.

SPEAKERS:

Ryan Rascop
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Ryan Rascop is an Arrow Technical Solutions Engineer who has been with Arrow for over 11 years and is focused on multiple storage suppliers. As a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner, Rascop supports growth in their supplier-specific storage business. He is passionate about creating technical and sales enablement programs, such as Arrow’s Quick Hits, and producing content with a focus on simplicity and ease of consumption. Rascop was selected as a President’s Club MVP pick for the NetApp line of business for 2019.
 
Walter Lemieux
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Walter Lemieux is a Technical Solutions Engineer at Arrow. He is a NetApp-proficient engineer with more than five years of experience working with customers to attain a plethora of goals and achievements. Lemieux brings his hands-on experience to Arrow as a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner. He has a zeal for creative solutions and collaboration, and has contributed to Arrow’s technical and sales enablement programs, including Arrow’s Quick Hits podcast.

What You Need to Know About NetApp’s New FAS and AFF Models

In this episode of Arrow Bandwidth, we will cover NetApp’s special edition of Arrow Quick Hits, packed full of NetApp resources and solutions designed to help you protect your current environment and ensure performance as you support a remote workforce during these unprecedented times.

NetApp can help you understand, optimize and protect your entire multi-vendor infrastructure by giving you visibility into your hybrid cloud and on-premises environments with a range of NetApp tools and offerings. Ensure that your customers can provide the best end-user computing and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure experiences to all their users.

Our current need to work from home requires around the clock access with no dips in performance. NetApp can help you rationalize your data and application infrastructure, move data between on-premises storage and clouds, and ensure data availability across clouds. With NetApp’s industry-leading resiliency and focus on reliability, you can be sure your data will always be ONTAP.

Read the Quick Hit on Arrow Channel Advisor: https://www.arrow.com/ecs/na/channeladvisor/channel-advisor-articles/arrow-quick-hits-netapp-business-continuity-special-edition/

SPEAKERS:

Ryan Rascop
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Ryan Rascop is an Arrow technical solutions engineer who has a combined 11 years at Arrow, focused on multiple storage suppliers. As a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner, he helps support growth in their supplier-specific storage business. He is passionate about creating technical and sales enablement programs such as Arrow’s Quick Hits, creating content with a focus on simplicity andease of consumption. Rascop was selected as a President’s Club MVP pick for the NetApp line of business for 2019.

Walter Lemieux
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Walter Lemieux is a technical solutions engineer at Arrow. He is a NetApp-proficient engineer with more than five years of experience working with customers to attain aplethora of goals and achievements. Lemieux brings his hands-on experience to Arrow as a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner. He has a zeal for creative solutions and collaboration, and has contributed to Arrow’s technical and sales enablement programs, including Arrow Quick Hits podcasts.

Arrow Quick Hits: NetApp Business Continuity Special Edition

In this episode of Arrow Bandwidth, you’ll hear about NetApp’s new AFF All-SAN (ASA) solution, a dedicated, block-only SAN solution that includes FC and ISCSI protocols (no NFS or SMB) — a perfect fit for customers looking to isolate SAN workloads for mission-critical applications.

The AFF ASA is based on the already popular AFF A220, A400 and A700 controller hardware that your customers know and trust with added benefits that position a great fit for many SAN customers. With NetApp's unparalleled cloud integration, your customers can expect reliability and performance.

Tune in to learn about the added benefits and how you can overcome objections you may have faced in the past, continue to grow your SAN business and offer your customers yet another amazing solution from NetApp.

Read the full Quick Hit on Arrow Channel Advisor: https://arrow.com/ecs/na/channeladvisor/channel-advisor-articles/arrow-quick-hits-netapp-aff-all-san-solutions/

SPEAKERS:

Ryan Rascop
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Ryan Rascop is an Arrow technical solutions engineer who has a combined 11 years at Arrow, focused on multiple storage suppliers. As a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner, he helps support growth in their supplier-specific storage business. He is passionate about creating technical and sales enablement programs such as Arrow’s Quick Hits, creating content with a focus on simplicity and ease of consumption. Rascop was selected as a President’s Club MVP pick for the NetApp line of business for 2019.

Walter Lemieux
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Walter Lemieux is a NetApp-proficient engineer with more than five years of experience working with customers to attain a plethora of goals and achievements. Lemieux brings his hands-on experience to Arrow as a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner. He has a zeal for creative solutions and collaboration, and has contributed to Arrow’s technical and sales enablement programs, including Arrow Quick Hits podcasts.

Arrow Quick Hits: NetApp AFF All-SAN Solutions

In this episode of Arrow Bandwidth, you’ll hear an audio version of the latest Arrow Quick Hit with NetApp and witness the power of their Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure (HCI) solutions.

Read the full Quick Hit on Arrow Channel Advisor: https://www.arrow.com/ecs/na/channeladvisor/channel-advisor-articles/arrow-quick-hits-witness-the-power-of-netapp-hybrid-cloud-infrastructure-hci/

Traditionally only available with a minimum of 2x compute nodes and 4x storage nodes, NetApp is pleased to offer the new 2+2 (2x compute nodes and 2x storage nodes) HCI configuration — opening the door to more customers, use cases and hybrid cloud possibilities.
This enterprise-scale, disaggregated HCI (dHCI) solution offers the guaranteed performance, cloud-like experience and automated management that your customers expect for their hybrid cloud journey.

The simplicity, flexibility and ability to reduce consumption costs empower organizations to move faster to achieve their hybrid cloud goals. With easy deployment, NetApp data fabric integration and a common experience across private and public clouds, NetApp HCI streamlines hybrid cloud infrastructure. Read the full Quick Hit to find out how you can break free from the constraints of traditional HCI solutions. 

SPEAKERS:
Ryan Rascop
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Ryan Rascop is an Arrow technical solutions engineer who has a combined 11 years at Arrow, focused on multiple storage suppliers. As a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner, he helps support growth in their supplier-specific storage business. He is passionate about creating technical and sales enablement programs such as Arrow’s Quick Hits, creating content with a focus on simplicity and ease of consumption. Rascop was selected as a President’s Club MVP pick for the NetApp line of business for 2019.

Walter Lemieux
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Walter Lemieux is a technical solutions engineer at Arrow. He is a NetApp-proficient engineer with more than five years of experience working with customers to attain a plethora of goals and achievements. Lemieux brings his hands-on experience to Arrow as a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner. He has a zeal for creative solutions and collaboration, and has contributed to Arrow’s technical and sales enablement programs, including Arrow Quick Hits podcasts.

Arrow Quick Hits: NetApp HCI Update

In this episode of Arrow Bandwidth, Ryan Rascop and Walter Lemieux discuss Arrow's newest Quick Hit around NetApp's Global File Cache.

NetApp’s intelligent Global File Cache (formerly Talon Fast Storage) is a software-based solution that delivers fast and secure access to data for users by caching “active data” sets to distributed offices globally. This allows access to data anywhere, at any time, with consistency and guaranteed performance. In addition, Global File Cache is cloud platform-agnostic, operationally simple with transparent integration, and end-to-end security. It provides cost-savings, high-performance access for remote offices to access their SMB shares. Listen today!

SPEAKERS:
Ryan Rascop
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Ryan Rascop is an Arrow technical solutions engineer who has a combined 11 years at Arrow, focused on multiple storage suppliers. As a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner, he helps support growth in their supplier-specific storage business. He is passionate about creating technical and sales enablement programs such as Arrow’s Quick Hits, creating content with a focus on simplicity and ease of consumption. Rascop was selected as a President’s Club MVP pick for the NetApp line of business for 2019.

Walter Lemieux
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Walter Lemieux is a technical solutions engineer at Arrow. He is a NetApp-proficient engineer with more than five years of experience working with customers to attain a plethora of goals and achievements. Lemieux brings his hands-on experience to Arrow as a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner. He has a zeal for creative solutions and collaboration, and has contributed to Arrow’s technical and sales enablement programs, including Arrow Quick Hits podcasts.

Arrow Quick Hits: NetApp Global File Cache

Welcome to Arrow Bandwidth, the podcast brought to you by Arrow to help the channel better understand the trends, technologies and concepts facing the IT industry today.