BlueXP & Cloud Insights

Service scope

Service constraints: N/A
System requirements: Access to platform

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/bluexp-classification/

User support

Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
Support response times: See : https://www.netapp.com/us/media/software-support-plan-product-description.pdf
User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Phone support: Yes
Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support: Web chat
Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
How the web chat support is accessible: N/A
Web chat accessibility testing: N/A
Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
Support levels: Full details of NetApp support , Support Levels and On-Site offering can be found here: https://www.netapp.com/us/services/index.aspx
Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started: All relevant onboarding documenatation can be found here : https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/cloud/
Service documentation: Yes
Documentation formats: HTML

PDF
End-of-contract data extraction: A multi-cloud agnostic data management solution, data can be simply replicated to alternate cloud provider. In event client wishes to replace ontap, data can be replicated to a non Ontap data location.
In addition to the extraction of data, there may be more detailed integration or Exit requirements when exiting a cloud and a Cloud Exit service available via G-Cloud Support Services can further assist in this process.
End-of-contract process: Buyer may terminate the relationship with Supplier for any reason by (i) providing Supplier with notice and (ii) closing Buyers account for all services for which Supplier provide an account closing mechanism.

Buyers pay for the services they use to the point of account termination. Please see the AWS UK Pricing Document affiliated with this Service in the Digital Marketplace.

Supplier customers retain control and ownership of their data. Supplier will not erase customer data for 30 days following an account termination. This allows customers to retrieve content from Supplier services so long as the customer has paid any charges for any post-termination use of the service offerings and all other amounts due.

Logicalis - at an additional cost can assist in the End of contract process as there may be more detailed integration & Exit requirements when exiting a cloud and a Cloud Exit service available via G-Cloud Support Services can further assist in this process.

Using the service

Web browser interface: Yes
Using the web interface: Cloud Manager simplifies enterprise cloud storage management by providing cloud monitoring, administration and orchestration frontend for NetApp ONTAP storage systems on-premises and in the cloud. For more details including a free trial https://cloud.netapp.com/cloud-manager
Web interface accessibility standard: None or don’t know
How the web interface is accessible: N/A
Web interface accessibility testing: This Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) provides guidance on the accessibility
characteristics of the NetApp ONTAP® Cloud : Full details can be found here : https://www.netapp.com/us/media/vpat-netapp-ontap-cloud.pdf"
API: Yes
What users can and can't do using the API: OnCommand Cloud Manager includes REST APIs that enable software developers to automate the management of NetApp storage in the cloud. The Cloud Manager APIs enable you to perform operations on different types of resources. The resources are broadly categorized as follows:

Administrative resources
Used to set up and configure Cloud Manager

Auditing resources
Used to view details about Cloud Manager operations

Authentication resources
Used to authenticate with Cloud Manager so you can run API operations

Working environment resources
Used to deploy and manage working environments: single ONTAP Cloud systems, ONTAP Cloud HA configurations, and ONTAP clusters

More detail can be found here : https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2735474/html/index.html#_how_the_rest_apis_work"
API automation tools: Ansible

Chef

OpenStack

SaltStack

Terraform

Puppet

Other
Other API automation tools: WorkFlow automation (WFA)
API documentation: Yes
API documentation formats: Open API (also known as Swagger)

HTML
Command line interface: Yes
Command line interface compatibility: Other
Using the command line interface: The ONTAP command-line interface (CLI) provides a command-based view of the management interface. You enter commands at the storage system prompt, and command results are displayed in text. A full description of the CLI capabilities can be found here: https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.dot-cm-sag%2FGUID-DD81D296-184D-4779-8031-B24286D6CD52.html

Scaling

Scaling available: Yes
Scaling type: Automatic

Manual
Independence of resources: You can use storage quality of service (QoS) to guarantee that performance of critical workloads is not degraded by competing workloads
Usage notifications: Yes
Usage reporting: API

Email

SMS

Analytics

Infrastructure or application metrics: Yes
Metrics types: CPU

Disk

Memory

Network

Number of active instances
Reporting types: API access

Real-time dashboards

Regular reports

Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type: Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold: NetApp

Staff security

Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
Data storage and processing locations: United Kingdom

European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
Penetration testing approach: In-house
Protecting data at rest: Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process: Yes
Data sanitisation type: Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation

Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Backup and recovery

Backup and recovery: Yes
What’s backed up: All / Any data can be backed up

Feature of multi_cloud data management is replication to any location
Backup controls: Backups can be done via both manual and automated standard NetApp Back and recovery services.

Backup to separate regions is supported
Datacentre setup: Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
Scheduling backups: Users schedule backups through a web interface
Backup recovery: Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface

Users contact the support team

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: Private network or public sector network

TLS (version 1.2 or above)

IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Other
Other protection within supplier network: AWS Customer environments are logically segregated to prevent users and customers from accessing resources not assigned to them. AWS gives customers ownership and control over their content by design through simple, but powerful tools that allow customers to determine how their content will be secured in transit.
AWS enables customers to open a secure, encrypted channel to AWS services using TLS/SSL, and/or IPsec or TLS VPN (if applicable), or other means of protection the customer wish to use.
API calls can be encrypted with TLS/SSL to maintain confidentiality; the AWS Console connection is encrypted with TLS.

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability: " AWS currently provides SLAs for several services. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of AWS’s product offerings, SLAs are best reviewed directly on our website via the links below:

• Amazon EC2 SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/
• Amazon S3 SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/s3-sla
• Amazon CloudFront SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/sla/
• Amazon Route 53 SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/
• Amazon RDS SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/rds-sla/
• AWS Shield Advanced SLA: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/sla/

Well-architected solutions on AWS that leverage AWS Service SLA’s and unique AWS capabilities such as multiple Availability Zones, can ease the burden of achieving specific SLA requirements."
Approach to resilience: "The AWS Business Continuity plan details the process that AWS follows in the case of an outage, from detection to deactivation. AWS has developed a three-phased approach: Activation and Notification Phase, Recovery Phase, and Reconstitution Phase. This approach ensures that AWS performs system recovery and reconstitution efforts in a methodical sequence, maximizing the effectiveness of the recovery and reconstitution efforts and minimizing system outage time due to errors and omissions.

AWS maintains a ubiquitous security control environment across all regions. Each data centre is built to physical, environmental, and security standards in an active-active configuration, employing an n+1 redundancy model, ensuring system availability in the event of component failure. Components (N) have at least one independent backup component. All data centres are online and serving traffic. In case of failure, there is sufficient capacity to enable traffic to be load-balanced to the remaining sites.

Customers are responsible for implementing contingency planning, training and testing for their systems hosted on AWS. AWS provides customers with the capability to implement a robust continuity plan, including the utilization of frequent server instance back-ups, data redundancy replication, and the flexibility to place instances and store data within multiple geographic regions across multiple Availability Zones."
Outage reporting: Public dashboard; personalised dashboard with API and events; configurable alerting (email / SMS / messaging)

Identity and authentication

User authentication: 2-factor authentication

Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)

Limited access network (for example PSN)

Dedicated link (for example VPN)

Username or password

Other
Other user authentication: AWS controls access via unique user ID/password authentication. No actions are permissible without authentication. Remote access is multi-factor, login attempts are limited, remote administrative access attempts are logged and reviewed by Security. Suspicious activity initiates incident response procedures.

A session lock out policy that is systematically enforced: locks are retained until identification/authentication procedures are concluded.

AWS’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) system controls access to AWS services/resources. IAM facilitates the issuance of access permissions per user/group.
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: IAM provides user access control to AWS services, APIs and specific resources. Other controls include time, originating IP address, SSL use, and whether users authenticated via MFA devices.

API calls to launch/terminate instances, change firewalls, and perform other functions are signed by customers’ Amazon Secret Access Key (either the root AWS Account’s Secret Access Key or the Secret Access key of a user created with AWS IAM). Amazon EC2 API calls cannot be made on customers’ behalf without access to customers’ Secret Access Ke.

API calls can be encrypted with TLS/SSL for confidentiality and customers can use TLS/SSL-protected API endpoints.
Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
Management access authentication: 2-factor authentication

Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)

Limited access network (for example PSN)

Username or password
Devices users manage the service through: Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information: Users receive audit information on a regular basis
How long user audit data is stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information: Users receive audit information on a regular basis
How long supplier audit data is stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months
How long system logs are stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: AWS - EY CErtifypoint, Logicalis BSI
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: AWS 22/11/2023, Logicalis 25/11/2022
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: NA
ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
CSA STAR certification: Yes
CSA STAR accreditation date: 22/11/2023
CSA STAR certification level: Level 3: CSA STAR Certification
What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover: Certification available here - https://d1.awsstatic.com/certifications/csa_star_certification.pdf
PCI certification: Yes
Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: Coalfire Systems Inc
PCI DSS accreditation date: 1/4/2016
What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/pci-dss-level-1-faqs/
Cyber essentials: Yes
Cyber essentials plus: Yes
Other security certifications: Yes
Any other security certifications: FIPS-140-2, Common Criteria and DoDIN APL.

https://security.netapp.com/certs/

SOC1,2 & 3

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
Security governance certified: Yes
Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001

Other
Other security governance standards: "ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 15408

For further information check the below links:
https://security.netapp.com/certs/
https://library-clnt.dmz.netapp.com/info/web/ECMP1138936.html?&access=a

FIPS-140-2, Common Criteria and DoDIN APL.
https://security.netapp.com/certs/
Information security policies and processes: "AWS implements formal, documented policies and procedures that provide guidance for operations and information security within the organisation. Policies address purpose, scope, roles, responsibilities and management commitment.

"NetApp is committed to providing its customers with quality products that provide the security posture they require.

NetApp has a comprehensive secure development lifecycle program based on industry best practices which includes, security training, static analysis security testing (SAST), dynamic analysis security testing (DAST), vulnerability scanning, third-party penetration testing and other security practices. NetApp further incorporates certain security features such as encrypted data-at-rest and data-in-motion depending on the system. NetApp’s secure development lifecycle is a journey and continues to be rolled out to achieve maturity.

As part of the development, ONTAP executes various secure development lifecycle practices and determines corrective actions. SAST, DAST, Fuzzing and vulnerability scanning are performed with each release. Penetration testing is performed at least annually.

Logicalis are accredited to ISO27001 and independently audited each year. We are also Cyber Essentials certified and have access to a team of secure staff from our QSS division dealing with sensitive public-sector organisations.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Configuration and change management approach: Changes to AWS services and features follow secure software development practices, including security risk reviews prior to launch. Developer access to production environments is via explicit access system requests, subject to owner review and authorisation.

Teams set bespoke change management standards per service, underpinned by standard AWS guidelines.

All production environment changes are reviewed, tested and approved. Stages include design, documentation, implementation (including rollback procedures), testing (non-production environment), peer to peer review (business impact/technical rigour/code), final approval by authorised party.

Emergency changes follow AWS incident response procedures. Exceptions to change management processes are documented and escalated to AWS management.
Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach: AWS Security performs vulnerability scans on the host operating system, web applications, and databases in the AWS environment. Approved 3rd party vendors conduct external assessments (minimum frequency: quarterly). Identified vulnerabilities are monitored and evaluated. Countermeasures are designed and implemented to neutralise known/newly identified vulnerabilities.

AWS Security monitors newsfeeds/vendor sites for patches and receives customer intelligence via http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/.

AWS customers are responsible for all scanning, penetration testing, file integrity monitoring and intrusion detection for their Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS instances/ applications. Scans should include customer IP addresses (not AWS endpoints). AWS endpoint testing is part of AWS compliance vulnerability scans.
Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Protective monitoring approach: AWS deploys (pan_environmental) monitoring devices to collect information on unauthorized intrusion attempts, usage abuse, and network/application bandwidth usage. Devices monitor:

• Port scanning attacks
• Usage (CPU, processes, disk utilization, swap rates, software-error generated losses)
• Application metrics
• Unauthorized connection attempts

Near real-time alerts flag incidents, based on AWS Service/Security Team- set thresholds.
Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach: AWS adopts a three-phased approach to manage incidents:

1. Activation and Notification Phase
2. Recovery Phase
3. Reconstitution Phase

To ensure the effectiveness of the AWS Incident Management plan, AWS conducts incident response testing, providing excellent coverage for the discovery of defects and failure modes as well as testing the systems for potential customer impact.

The Incident Response Test Plan is executed annually, in conjunction with the Incident Response plan. It includes multiple scenarios, potential vectors of attack, the inclusion of the systems integrator in reporting and coordination and varying reporting/detection avenues.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Separation between users

Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: Yes
Who implements virtualisation: Supplier
Virtualisation technologies used: Other
Other virtualisation technology used: AWS Proprietary - However, clients could alternatively choose the AWS VMC service which will use VMware hypervisor
How shared infrastructure is kept separate: "Customer environments are logically segregated, preventing users and customers from accessing unassigned resources. Customers maintain full control over their data access. Services which provide virtualized operational environments to customers, ensure that customers are segregated and prevent cross-tenant privilege escalation and information disclosure via hypervisors and instance isolation.

Different instances running on the same physical machine are isolated from each other via the Xen hypervisor. The Amazon EC2 firewall resides within the hypervisor layer, between the physical network interface and the instance's virtual interface. All packets pass through this layer. The physical random-access memory (RAM) is separated using similar mechanisms.

Energy efficiency

Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
Description of energy efficient datacentres: AWS complies with the EU code of conduct for energy efficient datacentre best practices. Further information on AWS energy programmes can be found at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/?nc1=f_cc

Social Value

Fighting climate change
Equal opportunity
Wellbeing

Fighting climate change

Social Value

Fighting climate change
Equal opportunity
Wellbeing
Fighting climate change

Take a look at our latest developments: Carbon neutral on scope 1&2 by 2025 - Announced intent to be carbon neutral on scope 1 and 2 by 2025. Engaged EcoVadis – Partnered with EcoVadis to provide a holistic understanding of our ESG performance. Carbon Disclosure Project – Deepened our scope with the CDP. SBTi – Committed to Science Based Targets initiative, joining the largest group of companies actively driving the reduction in global emissions. Launched customer sustainability score – Developed scoring mechanisms that enable customers to understand their IT emissions with recommendations, all available as a managed service.

Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

Diversity, equity and inclusion activities From our global inclusion council to unconscious bias training for all employees, we empower our employees to create an inclusive environment.

Wellbeing

Wellbeing

Innovation drives creativity and when people from diverse backgrounds work together, the more innovative and creative that team is likely to be. Our people are critical to our ongoing success and together we can create an environment where everyone can belong, grow and thrive. We are committed to making Logicalis the best it can be through our people and in FY23 we were recognised as being a 'Great Place to Work' in 12 countries.

Pricing

Price: £12 a unit a month
Discount for educational organisations: No
Free trial available: Yes
Description of free trial: A 30 day Free trial is available of the Cloud Data Sense product

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Service scope

User support

Onboarding and offboarding

Using the service

Scaling

Analytics

Resellers

Staff security

Asset protection

Backup and recovery

Data-in-transit protection

Availability and resilience

Identity and authentication

Audit information for users

Standards and certifications

Security governance

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Secure development

Separation between users

Energy efficiency

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BlueXP & Cloud Insights

Features

Benefits

Pricing

Service documents

Framework

Service ID

Contact

Service scope

User support

Onboarding and offboarding

Using the service

Scaling

Analytics

Resellers

Staff security

Asset protection

Backup and recovery

Data-in-transit protection

Availability and resilience

Identity and authentication

Audit information for users

Standards and certifications

Security governance

Operational security

Secure development

Separation between users

Energy efficiency

Social Value

Pricing

Service documents