NetApp and Microsoft Alliance: Transforming the Data Center for the Future
Through an alliance with Microsoft, NetApp has
developed innovative storage and data
management solutions for Microsoft
technologies to help customers realize the
full value of their Microsoft technology
investments.
Cisco®, VMware®, and NetApp® have jointly designed a best-in-breed Enhanced Secure Multi-Tenancy (ESMT) Architecture and have validated this design in a lab environment. This document describes the design of and the rationale behind the Enhanced Secure Multi-Tenancy Architecture. The design includes many issues that must be addressed prior to deployment as no two environments are alike. This document also discusses the problems that this architecture solves and the four pillars of an Enhanced Secure Multi-Tenancy environment.