NetApp SAN solutions increase storage efficiency, simplify management across heterogeneous environments, and lower TCO.
Maximizing data utilization, optimizing storage space, and eliminating duplicate data have become more important than ever. NetApp® SAN storage area networks incorporate thin provisioning, deduplication, Snapshot™ copies, and FlexClone® technology to help you use all available disk space. In fact, they help avoid the vast majority of data duplication in the first place.
With NetApp SAN, you can achieve more efficient SAN storage without sacrificing performance or availability. These benefits persist even with server virtualization, in which higher I/O rates, greater capacity, and faster provisioning put heavy demands on storage systems.
Choosing the right SAN storage vendor is important. More customers are deploying NetApp SAN systems for our high performance, high productivity, and world-class SAN ecosystems and partnerships.
Best of all, NetApp storage solutions are protocol agnostic, so the benefits are available across all NetApp SAN and NAS solutions, whether FC, FCoE, iSCSI, or NFS and CIFS.
For more information, check out our SANbytes blog or dive deeper into NetApp’s support for each SAN storage protocol.
NetApp offers a 50% virtualization guarantee *: Show us how much data you need to store in your virtual environment, and we’ll show you how to use 50% less storage with NetApp solutions.