AUSTRALIA, Sydney - 15 May 2007 -
Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) today broke the industry's
traditional deduplication legacy with the availability of
NetApp® advanced single-instance storage (A-SIS) deduplication
for NetApp NearStore® and FAS storage systems to help
customers achieve the cost benefits of deduplication across a wide
variety of environments, including backup, archival, compliance
storage, and primary data sets as diverse as home directories and
genomic data. The introduction of NetApp A-SIS deduplication
provides customers with the ability to reduce capital expenditures
and management costs by dramatically reducing the amount of storage
they need to purchase and manage. The reduction in quantity of
physical storage translates into savings in power and cooling costs
and data centre real estate costs. Deduplication is just one of the
many features customers require from storage vendors, including
reliability, scalability, and the ability to easily manage their
environments. With today's news, customers must consider the cost
and efficiency benefits of deduplication as being applicable across
all environments and that it should be an integral part of backup,
archival, compliance, and general primary storage solutions.
"Deduplication, at its core, is another form of data
virtualisation, in which one physical copy represents many logical
copies," said Tony Asaro, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy
Group. "Deduplication creates a domino effect of efficiency,
reducing capital, administrative, and facility costs. We believe
that data deduplication is one of the most important and valuable
technologies in storage."
NetApp A-SIS deduplication technology has been in customer use for
approximately two years, exclusively in conjunction with
Symantec® NetBackup™. Today, the same technology is
available as an integral part of NetApp storage systems and can be
deployed with a wide range of data types. A-SIS deduplication can
be enabled on NetApp FAS and NearStore R200 storage systems with
one simple command. It runs seamlessly in the background, with
virtually no read/write performance overhead, and is entirely
application transparent.
CommVault®, a leading provider of Unified Data
Management® solutions, has completed testing of A-SIS
deduplication with CommVault backup software. Based on the results
users can achieve up to a 20:1 space savings over traditional
models, with the possibility of experiencing even greater
compression ratios over time.
"The space savings numbers that A-SIS deduplication offers
customers speak for themselves," said David West, vice president of
Marketing and Business Development at CommVault. "With A-SIS
deduplication, users will be able to increase the number of data
protection and archive copies they can store on NetApp FAS or
NearStore storage systems, and gain even greater storage
efficiencies. With NetApp A-SIS deduplication in combination with
CommVault software, customers now have more choice for
enterprise-class deduplication solutions."
Intuitive Surgical, a global leader in the rapidly emerging field
of robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery, is a customer that
uses NetApp deduplication.
"NetApp has decreased our day-to-day storage management needs for
home directories and databases, significantly helping to reduce the
TCO," said Steve Lucchesi, vice president, Information Systems at
Intuitive Surgical. "NetApp deduplication provides us with yet
another method for conserving space on our storage systems while
retaining high performance."
"Today, with A-SIS, we're providing customers the universal ability
to save space and reduce storage costs regardless of how or where
the data comes from," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of
Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "Since A-SIS deduplication is now
integral to NetApp storage platforms, customers get the benefits of
deduplication while taking advantage of all NetApp reliability
features such as RAID-DP™. With the general availability of
A-SIS, we are adding another significant space savings capability
to our strong portfolio of space savings technologies, including
Snapshot™, thin provisioning, and storage free clones."
For more information on NetApp deduplication, visit
www.netapp.com/products/storage-systems/near-line-storage/nearstore-fas.html,
or visit the NetApp Tech Talk podcast on deduplication at
http://communicate.netapp.com/forms/verify?seminarID=2007042601POD.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions
for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992,
Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner
firsts to simplify data management. Information about Network
Appliance™ solutions and services is available at
www.netapp.com/au/.
NetApp and NearStore are registered trademarks and Network
Appliance, RAID-DP, and Snapshot are trademarks of Network
Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
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