The partnership between NetApp Inc. and Google Cloud reached another milestone last week when NetApp was named the Technology Partner of the Year for Infrastructure. The Cloud Volumes service for Google, launched by NetApp approximately one year ago, has become a simple way for information technology organizations to spin up a cloud-native, no-ops file storage service to run applications and analytics.

“It takes about eight seconds to establish a volume in Google Cloud that may take, through trouble tickets and IT and capital purchases, about six months to do,” said Anthony Lye (pictured, right), senior vice president and general manager of cloud at NetApp. “What people want to do in the public cloud is innovate, not administrate.”

Lye spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco. They were joined by Louis Verzi (pictured, left), senior cloud engineer at Cardinal Health Inc., and they discussed the challenges faced by healthcare organizations in a competitive market and how a collaboration with both NetApp and Google helped move on-premises workloads into the cloud (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Need for agility and speed

Like a number of organizations, Cardinal Health is facing cost pressure while needing to move faster and create agility to better respond to marketplace changes, according to Verzi. Moving to the cloud allowed the organization to address all three challenges.

“On-premises didn’t give us the flexibility to turn the levers in any of those three areas,” Verzi explained. “Those three things have really driven our push into the cloud. We’re about 80% of the way there.”

Verzi and his IT team at Cardinal Health wanted a one-click solution for developers that would give them a higher tier of storage with no downtime or restarting. NetApp collaborated with both Google and Cardinal Health to move high-performance file workloads into the cloud.

“We enabled him to run some pretty heavy on-prem workloads that required Network File System and can now run in production on Google Cloud,” Lye said. “We built it like dial tone. The NFS is always on in Google Cloud and you come and provision an endpoint.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Google Cloud Next event. (* Disclosure: NetApp Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither NetApp nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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