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Storage Software Systems

NetApp provides simple and affordable primary storage, backup, data protection and disaster recovery solutions for Large, Midsize & Small Enterprises. Our scalable FAS storage systems, the NetApp Manageability Software Family and our solutions for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, SAP as well as Oracle and VMware help you manage and protect your critical data.

As the leader in iSCSI-based IP SAN solutions, NetApp has helped companies leverage their existing IP network infrastructures for networked storage giving them affordable NAS & SAN solutions.

Why NetApp?

NetApp are recognised by Gartner as a ‘leader’ in storage solutions. The Data ONTAP® operating system is used by ALL NetApp Storage systems and delivers unmatched flexibility, scalability, administrative simplicity, and storage utilization for great price-performance.

The NetApp V-Series storage virtualization system extends these capabilities to heterogeneous storage networks such as IBM, HDS & EMC.

Manage your storage at the application level

Your business is changing. You need a reliable infrastructure that manages growing complexity and enhances productivity while reducing costs. Your data centre runs business-critical business applications every day and you must provide the high service levels, performance, and availability that your business and users demand, Network Appliance application partners cover business critical data centre applications.

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Enterprise class storage utilisation tools

Disaster Recovery

NetApp is the value leader in Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions by virtue of their simplicity and flexibility. NetApp makes it affordable for you to deploy a DR solution for more of your business critical applications, than would be possible with alternative solutions.

Typical DR solutions are simple replications of the working NAS or SAN, NetApp’s uniquie solution enables you to implement a DR plan over IP to a smaller unit running ISCSI thus reducing the overall cost of the required DR structure.

NetApp provides Asynchronous SnapMirror and Synchronous SnapMirror, MetroCluster Replication solutions addressing the broadest set of DR requirements

Archive & Compliance

NetApp archive and compliance solutions eliminate the need for separate storage silos and bridge the gap between point solutions for archive and compliance. NetApp achieve this by leveraging the same infrastructure for primary storage applications as for archive and compliance initiatives such as:

Data Classification
Classify, index, search to fulfill compliance and litigation discovery requests.

Data Discovery
Identify hidden privacy exposures, inappropriate content, and non-public information.

Data Migration
Automatically move data and optimize storage utilization.

Data Permanence
Enable business records to be unalterable and rapidly accessible with disk-based WORM storage.

Data Security
Obtain control over your data and secure your vital assets across the enterprise.

Virtualisation & Consolidation

NetApp’s Data ONTAP software environment incorporates virtualisation technology which simplifies enterprise data management while dramatically reducing TCO. Since Data ONTAP enables a logical presentation of data which is not constrained by physical storage infrastructure, attention can be focused on critical business applications instead of hardware complexity, leading to a reduction in required servers.

NetApp is partnering with VMware to offer solutions and best practices for the design of a virtualised infrastructure from servers to storage, with storage solutions that can deliver:

Scalable and consistent I/O performance for all ESX protocols (NFS, iSCSI, and FCP)
Flexible, rapid, simple, and cost-efficient provisioning and data management solutions
Best-in-class virtualized storage for thin provisioning of heterogeneous storage environments

Backup & Recovery

NetApp NearStore VTL and NetApp SnapVault are two families of disk-to-disk backup solutions that address virtually any environment or any requirement. NetApp NearStore VTL optimizes backup and recovery for any existing tape environment. NetApp SnapVault simplifies backup and recovery using snapshot and replication technology to reduce reliance on tape. SnapVault solutions are available for NetApp storage, non-NetApp storage, remote offices and a version for Symantec NetBackup jointly engineered with Symantec.

Deduplication

NetApp deduplication combines the benefits of granularity, performance, and resiliency to provide you with a significant advantage in the race to provide for ever-increasing storage capacity demands.

Data deduplication is an important new technology in your struggle to control data proliferation. The average UNIX® or Windows® disk volume contains thousands or even millions of duplicate data objects. As data is created, distributed, backed up, and archived, duplicate data objects are stored unabated across all storage tiers. The end result is inefficient utilization of data storage resources.

By eliminating redundant data objects and referencing just the original object, an immediate benefit is obtained through storage space efficiencies. The result is twofold:

Cost Benefit:
Reduced initial storage acquisition cost, or longer intervals between storage capacity upgrades.

Management Benefit:
The ability the store “more” data per storage unit, or retain online data for longer periods of time.

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