The leading storage operating system is now in the cloud, providing secure, proven NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI data management. Cloud ONTAP is a software-only storage appliance running the clustered Data ONTAP storage operating system, offering you control of your data with the power of an enterprise storage software solution. Building your cloud storage environment on Cloud ONTAP provides enterprise-class storage features across all protocols. You get zero-impact NetApp Snapshot copies with near-instantaneous point-in-time backups of your data, taking minimal storage resources. Cloud ONTAP lets you minimize your storage footprint with efficiency features such as data deduplication and data compression. Cloud ONTAP includes leading replication software, SnapMirror technology, which ties your on-premises FAS storage to your Cloud ONTAP environment. Cloud ONTAP is deployed and managed from Cloud Manager, giving you a simple point-and-click environment to manage the software and underlying AWS resources for your cloud storage solution. You can get advanced management from the NetApp OnCommand suite, offering you individual storage node control to multiplatform analysis and application integration. Explore (Hourly) provides the power of Data ONTAP in a prepackaged solution for smaller capacity applications and can be provisioned with up to 2TB of raw EBS capacity. IMPORTANT: Requires OnCommand Cloud Manager available on AWS Marketplace at http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00OMA42XU