NetApp shows hybrid love, revamps products for Amazon's cloud

NetApp is cosying up even more to Amazon in pursuit of its hybrid cloud data fabric ideas. What it’s doing is this: Adding three SteelStore cloud-native backup products as Amazon Machine Images (AMI) to backup cloud-based workloads, taking on EMC'S newly acquired cloud app firm Spanning. On-premises SteelStore physical …

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I think you're mistaken. Steelstore doesn't compete with Spanning. Unless somehow Steelstore learned how to during the acquisition, to backup Google Apps, SalesForce.com, etc?

I think you mean, TwinStrata, which is now CloudArray or CloudGateway or something by EMC.