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NetApp Keystone

Storage as a Service with NetApp Keystone

STaaS done right - delivers a true hybrid cloud experience with a common, multi-protocol storage OS across on-prem and public cloud, all via a single subscription: NetApp Keystone.

True hybrid cloud STaaS

Speed time to value with unmatched agility and flexibility

Seize your advantage with Keystone’s pay-as-you-go, hybrid cloud storage services. Power all your block, file, and object workloads wherever you want them — on-prem, in colos, and natively in all three major public clouds. Accelerate and optimize your IT with the industry-leading performance, resiliency, and seamless hybrid data mobility of NetApp intelligent data infrastructure.

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AI-optimized storage as a service—built for speed, scale, and simplicity

Remove barriers to entry and fast-track your AI journey with an AI-optimized architecture and integrated ONTAP data management features for scalable, secure AI operations—without the complexity and cost of traditional storage investments.

Eliminate upfront CapEx

Let’s you start small and easily grow with predictable OpEx while avoiding long-term hardware investments or manual capacity planning.

Why Keystone STaaS for Enterprise AI

Scale storage on demand

Offers a turnkey solution to dynamically expand performance and capacity as your AI projects grow—no overprovisioning required.

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Move from AI pilot to AI operations faster

Leverages NetApp AFX and the AI Data Engine to quickly operationalize AI initiatives with seamless data movement, protection, and visibility across hybrid environments

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Go faster with agile IT

Speed all your apps with predictable performance and 99.999% availability guaranteed. Respond to business needs faster with seamless data mobility and unified management across hybrid cloud — and forget time-consuming refresh cycles and day-to-day management overhead.

More on predictable performance

Align IT costs with business usage via pay-as-you-go storage. Optimize spend with the broadest range of scalable performance tiers and flexible 1-5 year terms. Save up to 50% via automated data tiering, adjust capacity or shift to the cloud by up to 25% annually, and burst to the cloud at no extra cost.

Get future-forward IT

Leverage NetApp continuous innovation to modernize storage — just choose your performance SLA and capacity needs and go. Move workloads to any public cloud at will, and know your data is secure with our built-in data protection, end-to-end encryption, and Ransomware Recovery Guarantee.

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Sustainability guarantee

Minimize the impact of your carbon footprint and meet sustainability goals—guaranteed—with standard watts/TiB for each SLA-based performance level, automated data tiering, sustainability monitoring, and cancellation of overprovisioning, on premises and in the cloud.

Simplify management, reduce complexity

In a single subscription support block, file, and object on a unified platform and simplify data storage management with seamlessly integrated NetApp Console and Data Infrastructure Insights for unified visibility, intelligent automation, and proactive monitoring across hybrid environments.

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Leave behind the cost and complexities of disruptive hardware refreshes

Reduce support and maintenance costs for storage by up to 30%. Free up IT teams to focus on business innovation, not day-to-day tasks.

Architect forward with real hybrid multicloud connectivity

As-a-service everywhere―monitor and orchestrate your hybrid data environment with a single pane of glass. You choose how, where, and when to use data services: on premises and in the cloud.

Cloud ready from the start

Bridge to the cloud with the ability to move to any major public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), seamlessly.

Quickly accommodate new workloads

No need to modify your entire infrastructure.

Respond faster to business changes

Move data, automatically, wherever you need it.

Stop paying for high-performance storage you don’t need

Save over 50% of capacity cost by automatically offloading unused cold data into cost-efficient cloud storage.

Burst storage on demand

No hidden costs for bursting to the cloud, and no premium charges for data changes.

Lower your rates

Flexible multi-year contracts enable you to reduce capacity or shift to the cloud by 25% annually.

Pay only for what you need

Align costs with usage by matching workloads to the broadest range of performance tiers available.

Keystone STaaS

delivers the right operating model for cloud flexibility

NetApp’s unstoppable momentum

In the same year Gartner® named NetApp a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Storage Platforms, we were recognized as a Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice. Now, we’re ranked #1 in Hybrid Cloud Storage in the Critical Capabilities report.

Transform Your Data Storage with NetApp Keystone® STaaS

Leader and Fast Mover in GigaOm's 2025 Sonar Report – Experience True Hybrid Cloud Integration, Cost Predictability, and AI-Driven Insights

Services Catalog

Keystone STaaS offerings are optimized for performance outcomes and costs for unified file and block, object storage, and cloud data services. It’s time to simplify our storage management and reap the benefits of NetApp innovation. Experience the ultimate on premises and cloud connector that delivers agility, operational flexibility, and reduced financial risk.

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File, block, and object

Service Level Extreme Premium Standard Value
Best for Mission-critical workloads (analytics, databases) T1 workloads (VDI, virtualized apps, sw dev) T2 workloads (File shares, web servers) Secondary storage, backup
Min commitment File/Block – 50 TiB File/Block – 50 TiB File – 100 TiB
Object – 200 TiB
File – 100 TiB
Object – 500 TiB
Capacity Increment 25 TiB 25 TiB 25 TiB File – 25 TiB
Object – 100 TiB
Protocols File – FC, iSCSI, NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, NFS, NFSv4/RDMA, SMB, S3
Block – NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI
Object – S3

Cloud Services

Service Level Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Best for DR, dev/test, business apps
Min committed capacity 4 TiB
Capacity increment 1 TiB
Protocols NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, S3* (*AWS & Azure only)

Easy as 1-2-3

Getting started with NetApp Keystone STaaS is easy. First, determine which workloads are best for a storage-as-a-service model. Next, select your performance levels, capacities, and add-on data services. And finally, choose your terms. Our team of specialists will take care of the design, build, and deploy, and have you up and running in as little as two weeks.

Build your Keystone roadmap for success

Start by identifying those use cases that will benefit from a storage-as-a-service offering. Need help planning your roadmap? Explore our portfolio of Professional Services for Hybrid Multicloud, and one of our specialists will help guide your success.

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Build your Keystone roadmap for success

Start by identifying those use cases that will benefit from a storage-as-a-service offering. Need help planning your roadmap? Explore our portfolio of Professional Services for Hybrid Multicloud, and one of our specialists will help guide your success.

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Build your Keystone roadmap for success

With a solid plan in place, it’s time to subscribe to Keystone. Select your performance service levels and committed capacities, add-ons like advanced data protection and data tiering services, contract terms, and who will operate the environment—you, a certified partner, or us. NetApp offers a fully managed service for an additional monthly fee. Need help determining storage requirements for your various workloads? Request a Workload Analysis for Keystone workshop.

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Lean on our expertise

Our team of NetApp specialists is here to provide design, build, installation, configuration, deployment, and onboarding services according to your contract terms. And we can migrate your data onto Keystone and put it on the same bill. We won’t leave until you’re happy.

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