A customer needs on-prem performance with cloud-like OpEx billing and automatic burst capacity. They want to avoid CapEx.

A customer needs on-prem performance with cloud-like OpEx billing and automatic burst capacity. They want to avoid CapEx.

• A. FAS purchase
• B. Keystone
• C. ONTAP Select
• D. Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Answer: (B)

Keystones is designed for on-prem storage that you can bill in a cloud-like OpEx, with the ability to scale capacity automatically as demand grows, all while avoiding upfront capital expenditure. This fits the customer’s need for on-prem performance coupled with subscription-based, pay-as-you-go pricing and elastic burst capacity. It lets you deploy storage on premises but pay as you use, and capacity can ramp up automatically when bursts occur, removing the need to lock in large CapEx purchases. Traditional hardware purchases are CapEx-heavy and don’t deliver OpEx billing. ONTAP Select is software-defined and still typically ties to supplied hardware and resources, not a pay-as-you-go on-prem model with automatic bursts. Cloud Volumes ONTAP targets cloud deployments rather than on-prem, so it doesn’t meet the on-prem requirement.

Keystones is designed for on-prem storage that you can bill in a cloud-like OpEx, with the ability to scale capacity automatically as demand grows, all while avoiding upfront capital expenditure. This fits the customer’s need for on-prem performance coupled with subscription-based, pay-as-you-go pricing and elastic burst capacity. It lets you deploy storage on premises but pay as you use, and capacity can ramp up automatically when bursts occur, removing the need to lock in large CapEx purchases.

Traditional hardware purchases are CapEx-heavy and don’t deliver OpEx billing. ONTAP Select is software-defined and still typically ties to supplied hardware and resources, not a pay-as-you-go on-prem model with automatic bursts. Cloud Volumes ONTAP targets cloud deployments rather than on-prem, so it doesn’t meet the on-prem requirement.