SYDNEY, Australia -
12 November 2008 - NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today furthered
its role as an innovator and a leader in the archive and compliance
market by announcing three new strategic relationships. As a
result, CommVault, Quest and Mimosa, all leaders in the archive
industry, will integrate with NetApp's industry-leading data
protection and storage efficiency solutions, providing customers
with a unified solution for increased performance and
affordability.
Today, archiving important business data is
more than just making sure that the information is retained and
meets strict government compliance regulations. With customers
paying closer attention to their IT bottom lines, it's also
imperative that their archive solutions operate efficiently and
cost-effectively, without sacrificing performance.
"Our research suggests that companies will
archive over 100,000 petabytes of data in the next three years,"
said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.
"When you combine this capacity with multiyear retention periods,
it drives the need for archive solutions that help organisations
cost-effectively save data for long periods of time. Archive
solutions that leverage the latest in data protection technology,
including those that support the backup and disaster recovery of
critical archive data, can address these significant demands."
By allowing NetApp's data protection and
storage efficiency capabilities to integrate with their respective
archive solutions, CommVault, Quest and Mimosa are teaming with
NetApp to provide customers with industry-leading archiving
platforms. These archiving platforms leverage NetApp's unified
storage architecture, enabling joint archive customers to support
multiple classes of storage and protocols within a single
architecture, driving lower operating costs, higher performance,
and less physical storage than competing storage solutions offer.
Furthermore, customers can harness components of the NetApp®
Data ONTAP® operating system, including deduplication, thin
provisioning, and FlexVol®, gaining storage-efficiency
solutions that result in lower power, cooling, and space
requirements, creating a more efficient archive environment.
In addition, NetApp delivers cascading
Snapshot™ copies, a data protection approach that provides
end-to-end protection for the archive application stack. To enable
cascading Snapshot copies, NetApp's lineup of data protection
solutions, including Snapshot, SnapVault®, SnapManager®
for SQL™, and SnapMirror®, run in concert to automate
and synchronise backups and replication across the archive
database, index, and content repositories. Synchronisation enables
data consistency across the multitiered application that is
critical to quickly and easily recovering the archive environment.
As a result, customers can increase application availability,
dramatically reduce backup downtime, and significantly improve
recovery point objectives and recovery times of the archive
application and content.
The solutions from CommVault, Quest and
Mimosa all support archiving for major messaging, collaboration,
and unstructured data, including Microsoft® Exchange Server,
Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server, file data, and Lotus
Notes. Each of the vendors also supports NetApp SnapLock® WORM
(write once, read many) storage, allowing customers to lock down
this data to address compliance, information governance and legal
discovery requirements.
"Data volumes are exploding, particularly as
customers face increased regulatory compliance and disaster
recovery pressures," said Michael Marchi, vice president of Product
and Segment Marketing, CommVault. "As a result of closer joint
development with NetApp, we deliver customers unique data
management solutions built on CommVault Simpana software and NetApp
storage solutions. We jointly offer customers a more efficient,
flexible, and cost-effective way to optimise storage for data
protection and archiving, while significantly improving data access
and availability in any storage environment."
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NetApp strategic relationship
"We are excited about our relationship with NetApp, specifically
around our e-mail management solutions, which allow faster
archiving, e-discovery, and compliance through the preservation of
business-critical messaging data," said Michael Ragusa, vice
president of Global Alliances, Quest Software. "Aligned with the
NetApp solution set, the Quest Archive Manager platform is the key
component of our Exchange management suite to help our customers
manage massive growth of their messaging environments."
"Organisations today must take a more
proactive approach to managing content growth and optimising
information access to reduce their risks and overall infrastructure
costs," said Scott Whitney, vice president of Product Management,
Mimosa Systems. "Mimosa is delivering next-generation archiving and
recovery thanks to integration with NetApp's industry-leading
storage solutions to ensure our mutual customers can deploy a
unified solution in a simplified, affordable way. As part of our
commitment, Mimosa has integrated with SnapDrive®,
SnapManager, and SnapMirror to archive and protect our customers'
file data and Exchange messaging environments."
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and NetApp strategic relationship
"Archiving today is no longer considered a nice-to-have by
customers," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions
Marketing, NetApp. "Instead, it's now an integral component of any
enterprise's data management infrastructure. With this partnership
news to integrate our industry-leading data protection and storage
efficiency solutions with leading archive solutions, we are better
equipped to address the growing needs of customers for advanced,
affordable archive solutions that more efficiently manage and store
the ever-growing pools of business critical data."
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