More than just an off-the-shelf data architecture design, this service provides actionable guidance to accelerate your cloud adoption, optimize business outcomes, and deliver a customized, next-steps blueprint for your cloud journey. Our services experts work with you to make sure that our architecture meets your specific business requirements to innovate quickly, incorporate the latest cloud capabilities, scale for the future, and minimize risks to your business. In addition, with this service you get specialized expertise to help you align your new NetApp cloud solutions with your existing environment, to optimize performance and to reduce costs.

Our NetApp Professional Services team understands cloud workloads and how they affect your applications, and no one knows how to design and integrate NetApp cloud architectures better than we do. With industry-leading expertise, methodologies, and tools, we:

• Fully assess your current state—workloads and NetApp technology requirements—and establish what you should run in the cloud and where.
• Create an information-driven, expert-guided plan that optimizes placement of your workloads both in the cloud and on premises.
• Validate the design to confirm that it meets all requirements and adjust it as necessary.
• Deliver a high-level, graphical design architecture document to help you accelerate your transition to cloud.