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Shifting to the cloud is the best way ensure your business stays both current and competitive. With cloud adoption growing, the underlying infrastructure and services can grow to be quite complex.

When two Cornell University instructors wanted improve student access to course resources, they turned to the AWS Cloud. By using cloud-based virtual desktops and application streaming services, every student could access the same application on any device. This increased in-class interactivity, eliminated the need for visits to the on-campus computer labs, and improved the experience for distance learners. Now, students use the same applications required in future careers, in the classroom and beyond, and on any device.

Infrequently-used data, whether it’s active data, DR copies, or snapshots, can be real cost burdens if stored on performant storage types like Amazon EBS or Azure managed disks. NetApp has a solution for this with Cloud Volumes ONTAP’s automated storage tiering feature.What is data tiering? Cloud Volumes ONTAP can automatically shift cold data to an object storage capacity tier on Azure Blob or Amazon S3 and automatically bring it back to the performance tier on Azure managed disks or Amazon EBS as soon as it’s needed and with hardly any performance impact, saving you time and reducing your Azure storage costs or AWS storage costs.

The founders of Data Center Frontier and datacenterHawk joined us to share their research in market trends and the individual characteristics of the New York, New Jersey and Boston markets, as well as answer pertinent questions at the end. The discussion was hosted and moderated by our very own Martin Triplett, Director of Global Product Management at Digital Realty.