SYDNEY, Australia-August 25,
2009-To empower customers who are rapidly changing the way
their data centres are designed and shifting to a model of IT
delivered as a service (ITaaS), NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today
unveiled Data ONTAP® 8 along with other new technologies and
solutions that will serve as the cloud infrastructure foundation
for today and tomorrow.
"Today's announcements truly usher in a new
era and way of doing business for NetApp," said Peter O'Connor,
vice president and managing director for NetApp Australia and New
Zealand. "Customer dynamics are changing in the face of increased
economic pressures as IT executives are tasked with doing more with
less. As a result, the makeup of the data centre is drastically
changing as companies choose to take advantage of applications,
infrastructure, and platforms delivered in the form of services.
NetApp is primed to take advantage of this major shift in the
market by providing enterprises with not only the industry-leading
storage and data management solutions that are ideal for the cloud,
but, more importantly, also serve as the technology partner of
choice to guide enterprises on their journey in deploying a cloud
infrastructure."
Enterprise customers, global systems
integrators, and service providers are already leveraging existing
Data ONTAP platforms as the foundation for a wide range of their
internal and external cloud deployments. Data ONTAP 8 will build
upon these proven cloud capabilities with enhanced functionality
for virtualized and shared infrastructure environments, including
nondisruptive data mobility, dynamic growth through a scale-out
architecture, and 64-bit storage aggregates to support
multipetabyte deployments. Data ONTAP 8 will also provide customers
with improved data management capabilities and tighter integration
with data centre orchestration and management systems, enabling the
storage, server, networking, and application layers to interface
with one another. The Data ONTAP 8 family combines Data ONTAP 7G
and Data ONTAP GX under a single code base in a phased approach
that will allow customers to leverage the combined scale-up and
scale-out capabilities.
With the addition of these new innovative and
enhanced capabilities, Data ONTAP 8 provides customers with a
platform that meets their stringent cloud requirements and
addresses their challenges in deploying a cloud storage
infrastructure, including:
- Secure Multi-Tenancy-Customers can deploy a
shared, cost-effective infrastructure across separate user groups
or enterprise customers with NetApp's proven technology called
MultiStore®.
- Transparent Data Motion-Customers can achieve
nondisruptive data access during mandatory shutdowns or upgrades
and respond quickly and transparently within a single-site or
across multi-site distributed deployments.
- Service Automation-Customers can leverage a
comprehensive set of role-based data management and monitoring
tools to meter usage and enable a charge-back model, significantly
reducing operational costs and improving service response
time.
- Storage Efficiency-Customers can improve ROI
for raw storage purchases and reduce data centre space, power, and
cooling.
- Integrated Data Protection-Customers can
deploy built-in backup/recovery and business continuity
capabilities, which are a necessity for shared infrastructures that
must always be on.
"While Data ONTAP provides a wide range of
enterprises with storage solutions that fuel their cloud
infrastructures, Data ONTAP 8 will take it to the next level by
providing enhanced scalability, performance, efficiencies, and
other features that are key to the cloud," said Terri McClure,
analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Combine this technology
foundation with its impressive lineup of cloud enablement partners
and NetApp has clearly strengthened its position as a true cloud
storage infrastructure provider."
New Products, Solutions, and Services
Empower the Cloud
The following new NetApp® products, solutions, and services
address customers' critical cloud requirements for a more efficient
and flexible cloud infrastructure:
- NetApp Data Motion™-NetApp's new data
motion technology allows enterprises to move data nondisruptively
across storage systems with zero application downtime. Now
customers can eliminate the impact of planned maintenance outages
in virtualized multi-tenant environments. NetApp Data Motion is the
first solution of its kind in the storage industry and builds upon
the NetApp unified storage architecture to greatly enhance
availability for both internal and external cloud customers.
- Performance Acceleration Module II-The
second-generation Performance Acceleration Module, a family of
flash technology-based caching modules, provides an innovative,
alternative use of flash/SSD technology rather than using SSDs in
disk shelves. Customers can cost-effectively improve performance
across a broader set of workloads without straining their existing
infrastructure. Tests
conducted by NetApp with an Online Transaction Processing
(OLTP) workload show that customers can cost-effectively increase
I/O throughput by approximately 78% and speed response time by
approximately 30%. These gains were achieved using less than 1%
more power and no additional rack space.
- NetApp Dynamic Data Center (NDDC) Solution-The
NetApp dynamic data centre solution comprises three components to
provide customers with a proven and tested solution for delivering
ITaaS. The first component is a service-oriented infrastructure
(SOI) that leverages NetApp's industry-leading storage
technologies. This standardised architecture allows customers to
consume and deploy storage, network, and compute resources in a
repeatable manner to reduce costs and increase service levels.
NetApp offers these shared resources through a service catalogue to
deliver infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to end users. A second
component includes a service management framework that provides
processes and best practices to help manage the infrastructure and
reduce fixed costs wherever possible. The last component is a
delivery methodology that leverages NetApp Professional Services
and NetApp systems integrator partners to deploy ITaaS
infrastructures efficiently and with the least risk to
customers.
- NetApp Fast-Start Customer Workshop-NetApp now
offers two- to four-day consulting workshops to help customers
develop their plan to deploy their NetApp dynamic data centre
solution. The workshops are designed to quickly evaluate the
customer's current business needs, identify the projects necessary
to address the needs, and then help the customer execute a plan to
achieve maximum agility and data centre cost savings.
In addition to the products, solutions, and
services detailed above, NetApp also introduced the DS4243 disk
shelf, a versatile SAS/SATA disk subsystem that enables enterprise
customers to streamline their data footprint thanks to the
subsystem's dense and space-efficient design (24TB in 4U). As a
result, enterprise customers with cloud deployments are able to
more efficiently use valuable data centre resources.
"T-Systems provides over 170 enterprise
customers worldwide with cloud services for key applications like
SAP® and Microsoft® Exchange with our Dynamic Services
offering," said Olaf Heyden, member of the Board of Management
T-Systems for ICT Operations. "Together with our technology
partners we are able to achieve 90% service infrastructure
utilisation, allowing us to pass on both cost savings and higher
service levels to our customers. In fact, our customers see up to
30% reduction in cost using Dynamic Services vs. in-house hosting.
Furthermore, our customers benefit from integrated data protection
and secure multi-tenancy while we are able to flexibly scale IT
resources up and down in a matter of hours rather than days or
weeks. NetApp is an essential component to enabling all of these
benefits by regularly and reliably delivering on our specific
requirements."
"More and more enterprises are moving to a
virtualized infrastructure in order to take advantage of both the
business and IT benefits that it affords, such as increased
flexibility, faster responsiveness, and lower costs," said Peter
O'Connor, vice president and managing director for NetApp Australia
and New Zealand. "The NetApp Data ONTAP storage platform, thanks to
its unique and industry-leading capabilities, has been helping
enterprise customers realise their infrastructure goals for several
years. However, today's announcement of Data ONTAP 8 builds on this
foundation by offering customers the storage solutions and
technologies needed for tomorrow's IT-as-a-Service
environments."
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Additional Resources
To learn about how NetApp is working with its partners and
customers to enable enterprise cloud computing, please read
today's press release or visit the NetApp Cloud Experience.
For more perspective on NetApp's cloud
enablement strategy and vision, please visit one of several NetApp
blogs, including that of Dave Hitz, NetApp founder and
executive vice president; Jay Kidd, NetApp's chief
marketing officer; and the new "Breaking Through the Cloud"
NetApp team blog.
Also, listen to Val Bercovici, NetApp cloud
czar, in a two-part series discussing
all things cloud, including customer requirements, NetApp's
definition, and NetApp's approach to helping customers deploy the
cloud.
Please visit NetApp
Play-by-Play as Jeff O'Neal, senior director of Data Centre
Solutions for NetApp, takes a deeper dive into how NetApp is
enabling ITaaS.
White Papers
For more information on NetApp's vision for enabling the cloud,
read the white paper "Storage
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing." The paper describes the
key storage infrastructure requirements for enabling a cloud
environment.
For more information on how NetApp helps
customers deploy a dynamic data centre, read the white paper
"Building
a Dynamic Data Center." The paper describes the steps required
by customers to begin building a next-generation data centre.
Pricing and
Availability
All customer pricing for products described in this release is
available from NetApp sales or reseller partners. NetApp Data ONTAP
8, the NetApp Performance Acceleration Module II, and the NetApp
DS4243 disk shelf are scheduled to be available in September 2009.
NetApp Data Motion is scheduled to be available in early 2010.
About NetApp
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that accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost
efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the
world go further, faster at www.netapp.com/au.
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