SYDNEY, Australia - January 20,
2009 - NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced
SnapManager® 3.0 for Oracle, providing customers who have
Oracle® Database environments running on NetApp®
enterprise storage systems with significant improvements in backup,
restore, and cloning capabilities.
In today's enterprise environment, customers
require 24x7 availability and protection of their business-critical
applications on Oracle Databases. Meeting this requirement has been
a significant challenge for customers whose data and management
demands continue to grow. NetApp SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle, which
is available today and builds upon the previous capabilities and
features, enables customers to perform self-service data management
of their Oracle Databases more completely and efficiently.
SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle provides
policy-driven data protection through its integration with NetApp
Protection Manager, helping storage administrators better create
and manage policies and empowering database administrators (DBAs)
to easily implement them using the software's self-service
features. As a result, DBAs can now standardise and automate
backups of Oracle to primary and secondary storage through
integration with NetApp SnapVault® and SnapMirror®,
providing more streamlined and comprehensive data protection.
SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle also integrates
with NetApp FlexClone® technology. Now DBAs can clone
databases directly to primary or secondary storage in a matter of
minutes, resulting in faster development and test cycles for
quicker time to market. In addition, DBAs can use SnapManager 3.0
for Oracle to execute existing data masking scripts on database
clones to protect sensitive information. Finally, SnapManager 3.0
for Oracle allows for increased Oracle Database availability,
providing customers with the ability to schedule backups on the fly
and enable volume-level restores.
"We've seen many of our customers realise
tremendous benefits with SnapManager for Oracle," said Ari Kaplan,
senior consultant and business applications practice lead, Datalink
Corporation. "Customers used to spend several days cloning their
entire Oracle environment. Now they're able to do it in just a
matter of minutes, while typically using only 10% of their storage
capacity to do so. NetApp SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle will only
strengthen this offering by providing customers with increased
cloning and restore capabilities along with enhanced
protection."
"SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle makes life easier
for IT staffs, allowing DBAs to conduct self-service, comprehensive
data protection on their Oracle Databases in far less time then it
used to," said Patrick Rogers, vice president Solutions Marketing
for NetApp. "The enhanced policy-driven data protection and cloning
capabilities found in the new SnapManager are further proof of
NetApp's commitment to providing customers with Oracle Databases
with the industry's best data protection tools for their NetApp
enterprise storage systems."
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Press Contact:
Gabriel Wong
Max Australia
02 9954 3492
gabriel.wong@maxaustralia.com.au
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