Which option provides flexible payment for on-premises and hybrid cloud NetApp solutions?

• A. Keystone
• B. Cloud Volumes ONTAP PAYGO
• C. ONTAP Select
• D. Cloud Volumes ONTAP BYOL

Answer: (A)

Keystone provides flexible payment for on-premises and hybrid cloud NetApp solutions. It’s NetApp’s flexible consumption model that lets you pay based on usage with monthly payments, covering both on-prem hardware and cloud deployments in a single, unified arrangement. This approach lets you scale up or down as needs change without large upfront capital outlays, and it streamlines purchasing and billing for hybrid environments by tying together hardware, software, and services under one flexible agreement.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP PAYGO, by contrast, is focused on paying for Cloud Volumes ONTAP in public clouds on a usage basis, not providing a single, cross-environment payment model for on-prem and hybrid. ONTAP Select is a software-defined option you run on generic hardware, but it does not inherently offer a flexible, consumption-based payment model across both on-prem and cloud. Cloud Volumes ONTAP BYOL relies on bringing your own licenses and typically involves traditional license-based pricing rather than a flexible, usage-driven payment structure.