Cloud Volumes Service is a fully managed cloud storage service that provides SMB/CIFS and NFS file services for your cloud applications. It is designed for customers who want to use NetApp cloud solutions for their CIFS and iSCSI data but have a very limited staff. Cloud Volumes Service simplifies and automates the deployment, management, and scaling of your file systems, while delivering high performance, availability, security, and data protection. You can also leverage NetApp’s data management capabilities, such as snapshots, clones, replication, and backup, to enhance your data lifecycle management. References = What is Cloud Volumes Service for AWS?, Cloud Volumes Service for AWS Documentation, Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud Documentation, Cloud Volumes Service for Azure Documentation

BlueXP edge caching is a NetApp BlueXP product that enables a customer to provide read and write access to remote Windows servers from a centralized datastore. BlueXP edge caching allows you to cache data from a BlueXP volume or a Cloud Volume ONTAP system on a local Windows server, which improves the performance and availability of your applications. You can also sync the cached data back to the source volume, ensuring data consistency and protection. References = BlueXP edge caching overview, BlueXP edge caching documentation, BlueXP edge caching: Accelerate access to your data

 = When provisioning SAN, the host owns the file system. A LUN is a logical unit of storage that is presented to the host as a SCSI device. The host can format the LUN with any file system it supports, such as NTFS, ext4, or XFS. The ONTAP software does not manage the file system on the LUN, but only provides the block-level access to the LUN. The volume is a logical container for one or more LUNs, but it does not own the file system either. References = SAN Concepts, LUNs and Volumes