NetApp Keystone STaaS is designed to help you align storage spend directly with usage so you can avoid large upfront investments and surprise bills.

• Single, pay‑as‑you‑go subscription. You get one monthly invoice that covers both on‑premises and cloud data storage services, making it easier to budget and forecast.
• Pay only for what you use. You can scale capacity up or down as your needs change, so you avoid overprovisioning and big capital expenditures.
• Tiered performance options. Choose from multiple performance tiers and reallocate volumes across three tiers on demand, so you’re not paying high‑performance prices for workloads that don’t need it.
• Flexible terms. Contracts range from 1 to 5 years, and you can adjust capacity or shift to the cloud by up to 25% annually within that term.
• Lower total cost of ownership. You can save up to 50% of storage TCO by automatically tiering infrequently accessed or cold data to lower‑cost object storage, either on premises or in the cloud.

Because billing is predictable and tied to actual consumption, finance and IT teams can jointly plan storage investments with more confidence.

Keystone STaaS is built to reimagine how you manage storage across on‑premises and public clouds using a common platform and operational model.

• One platform for block, file, and object. You can power block, file, and object workloads on premises, in any major cloud, and in between, all under a single subscription.
• Unified control plane. With NetApp Console, you can monitor, provision, and orchestrate both on‑premises and cloud storage services for a consistent, hybrid cloud experience.
• Cloud-ready from day one. Workloads can be moved to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud without reworking your entire infrastructure, using the same service model.
• Flexible workload strategies. Use multiple clouds for data migration, bursting workloads, backup, disaster recovery, and cold data storage, while keeping a single, monthly bill.
• Cloud bursting and repatriation. You can burst to cloud at no extra cost and later bring workloads back from higher‑cost public cloud services when it makes financial or operational sense.

This approach lets you support current data center investments while evolving toward a more flexible hybrid cloud architecture at your own pace.

Keystone STaaS is designed to keep critical workloads running reliably while protecting your data end to end.

• High availability SLAs. The Extreme and Premium service tiers provide 99.999% guaranteed uptime, which equates to an average of less than 27 seconds of downtime per month for unified file and block storage with data tiering.
• Predictable performance. Performance is aligned to your business needs with clearly defined, predictable IOPS per TiB for each performance level.
• Sustainability targets. Each SLA-based performance level comes with guaranteed watts per TB, and you can receive service credits if those efficiency targets aren’t met, helping you support sustainability goals.
• End-to-end observability. NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights, included as part of your Keystone subscription, provides AI-driven analytics, monitoring, and troubleshooting across your entire hybrid environment.
• Built-in security and ransomware recovery. Data is protected with end‑to‑end encryption and guaranteed ransomware recovery for zero data loss, helping you meet cyber resilience and governance requirements.

Together, these capabilities help your team deliver consistent performance and availability while strengthening your overall security posture.