Sunnyvale, California - January 26,
2009 - NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced the immediate
availability of NetApp® SnapManager® 2.0 for
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007, enabling
customers to better manage their SharePoint Server environments to
increase storage efficiency, reduce costs, and improve data
protection in both physical and virtual IT environments.
"With the explosive growth of Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments-their number, their size,
and the sheer importance of their data-comes a corresponding
increase in the associated storage needs and potential challenges,"
said Mark Peters, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Simply put,
users ideally require two things of their data management solution:
first, it should add value to their SharePoint implementation; and
second, it should integrate the data into a scalable and flexible
architecture. In a nutshell, those two things are what NetApp
offers SharePoint users: by adding dedupe, tiering, flexible
provisioning, and so on plus providing integration into its central
management, backup, and recovery schema, NetApp can help them
address both their scale and complexity issues."
SnapManager 2.0 for Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server automatically discovers and monitors all data
associated with SharePoint Server farms and flags any new and/or
unprotected data. This enables administrators to easily and
efficiently provision storage as needed to support the growing
SharePoint data environment without impacting system performance or
business users. SnapManager can also be used to set up automatic
backup policies that protect the data on an ongoing basis,
resulting in increased storage efficiencies, higher storage
utilization, and a reduction in management complexities and costs.
Also, its ability to protect or recover any size database, ranging
from an entire site down to one single document, can be done in
just a matter of minutes for enhanced data protection and
availability.
Additionally, SnapManager 2.0 for Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server enables customers to streamline
development and testing for their customized SharePoint Server
environments, further reducing development time and expenses. This
functionality, which leverages NetApp FlexClone® technology,
empowers customers with the ability to develop a customized portal
to meet their specific SharePoint Server needs and test it in a
safe environment without risking impact to operations. It also
allows customers to make full production test copies in minutes
with minimal additional storage space needed. Furthermore,
integration with NetApp Protection Manager and SnapMirror®
technologies provides added data management and disaster recovery
capabilities of business-critical SharePoint Server data. Added
flexibility is provided through its support of virtualized IT
environments.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server customers
can enjoy further storage savings and efficiencies by leveraging
additional NetApp technologies such as Snapshot™,
FlexVol®, and deduplication, which are all available through
NetApp's unified storage architecture. For example, NetApp's
deduplication technology can help customers reduce their storage
costs on both primary and secondary storage by an additional 30% to
40%.
"Due to the sheer increase in data managed by
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, protecting that data has become
both more important and more challenging," said Patrick Rogers,
vice president of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "NetApp
SnapManager 2.0 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
improves data protection, while reducing overall storage costs.
Microsoft and NetApp have tightly integrated our respective
technologies to simplify the SharePoint Server administrator's job,
and create a great user experience."
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