We are thrilled to announce a significant enhancement to Google Cloud NetApp Volumes with the integration of Assured Workloads. This powerful combination empowers organizations to deploy NetApp Volumes in a rigorously secure and controlled environment, specifically designed to meet the stringent compliance demands of highly regulated sectors such as government, healthcare, and financial services.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes offers organizations Assured Workloads support for Regional Controls in Australia, Canada, Europe, Singapore, and US regions.
Reduced risk
With Assured Workloads support, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes opens the path to running more secure and compliant storage workloads on Google Cloud. Enterprises can now significantly reduce their risk and liability by enabling adherence to relevant standards, regulations and mitigate risks of noncompliance that can result in reputational damage, legal challenges, and severe penalties.
Future proof security
Regulatory standards are constantly evolving to address emerging technologies and threats. Google Cloud NetApp Volumes with Assured Workloads support helps enterprises stay ahead of these changes and enables their compliance measures to remain effective and up to date, future-proofing their security and compliance.
Uncompromised compliance
Navigating the complex landscape of industry regulations and standards like ISO, SOC, HIPAA, and GDPR is simplified with Assured Workloads. Assured Workloads offers a preconfigured environment meticulously designed to align with these requirements, easing the burden of compliance and audit preparation. Assured Workloads establishes a fortified environment for NetApp Volumes, incorporating robust isolation controls and encryption mechanisms to safeguard sensitive data from unauthorized access and potential breaches.
Comprehensive security and performance
NetApp Volumes delivers exceptional performance and scalability to support demanding workloads. Integration with Assured Workloads lets the high-performance capability remain uncompromised, even within the most security-conscious environments. By providing a comprehensive security framework, Assured Workloads can potentially reduce the need for supplementary security measures, leading to cost savings and operational efficiencies.
Enhanced controls and visibility
Assured Workloads offers enterprises stringent controls and enhanced visibility into data locality, personnel access and auditing of their data stored in NetApp Volumes.
- Data locality: Assured Workloads provides granular control over data location, allowing you to specify where NetApp Volumes data is stored and processed, maintaining compliance with data sovereignty and residency requirements.
- Personnel access: Stringent controls are implemented to govern access to NetApp Volumes environments within Assured Workloads. Enterprises have the authority to define which Google Cloud personnel can access your data and under what circumstances, providing an additional layer of security and oversight.
- Audit logging: Comprehensive audit logging capabilities in Assured Workloads offer detailed visibility into activities and events in your NetApp Volumes environment. This transparency aids in monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining compliance.
- Cryptographic control over data access: All data stored in NetApp Volumes is encrypted by default. For more control on data encryption, you can use Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage your own encryption keys. Assured Workloads supports appropriate encryption based on compliance needs. Google Cloud's multi-layered approach maintains data confidentiality, security, and compliance.
Use cases
The synergy between NetApp Volumes and Assured Workloads unlocks a wide array of use cases.
- Highly regulated industries: Organizations operating in sectors with stringent regulatory requirements, such as healthcare, financial services, and government, can leverage NetApp Volumes with Assured Workloads to confidently deploy workloads in a secure and compliant manner.
- Sensitive data: For organizations entrusted with safeguarding sensitive data, including personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), and financial data, NetApp Volumes with Assured Workloads offers robust protection against unauthorized access and data leakage.
- Mission-critical applications: Assured Workloads provides a dependable foundation for mission-critical applications that rely on NetApp Volumes, so that these applications operate within a secure and highly available environment, and minimize the risk of disruptions and downtime.
Get started
The integration of Assured Workloads with NetApp Volumes enables seamless deployment and management. The intuitive interface and comprehensive documentation facilitate the configuration and deployment of volumes in the Assured Workloads environment.
To delve deeper into the capabilities and benefits highlighted in this blog post, explore our detailed documentation and resources for Assured Workloads, and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Elevate your enterprise's file storage and compliance capabilities with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and Assured Workloads support. Embrace the future of secure, compliant, and efficient data management today.
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