Bangalore-November 8, 2006 - Network
Appliance today extended its data center portfolio with the
addition of its new highest performing midrange platforms, the
FAS3070 and V3070 series; broader Fibre Channel (FC) storage area
network (SAN) capabilities; significant enhancements and
introductions in the NetApp® Manageability Software Family;
and new professional services, all aimed at making enterprise data
center management easier for customers who demand high-performance
SAN solutions and increased application uptime to meet their
business needs. Just a few short months after NetApp unveiled its
high-end FAS6000 series and associated software and services, the
company is again raising the bar for its competitors by offering
the most flexibility, the highest availability, and the best value
for its customers. More information on today's news is available at
http://www.netapp.com/in/company/news/press-releases/.
"Today's introductions highlight our comprehensive solutions for
our customers' data centers that offer the best performance for
midrange SAN, enabling the most flexibility to adapt to business
change, the highest availability of application data, and the
highest productivity for IT administrators and assets," said
Soumitra Agarwal, Marketing Director, NetApp India. "From the
FAS3070 and V3070 to our extensive refresh of the NetApp
Manageability Software Family, we have poured tremendous innovation
into these products, making sure that they deliver the highest
performance and application uptime at an attractive price. Whether
a customer is looking for a powerful SAN for massive performance
needs, a midrange SAN or NAS, or an archive, compliance, or backup
solution, NetApp has that customer covered with a variety of
solutions. EMC and HP should be concerned. We just have the better
portfolio."
"The hypercompetitive and fast-turnaround nature of our business
made us look at NetApp advanced storage solutions to shore up our
operational efficiencies," says Bhushan Akerkar, Executive Director
- IST, South Asia, AC Nielsen ORG MARG, a leading provider of
market research, information and analysis services. "The NetApp
solution supports a wide range of applications via different
protocols. Further, the solution is easy to upgrade, and disaster
recovery systems can be implemented easily."
"We needed a reliable solution to manage the large amounts of data
generated and archived across our media platforms. We absolutely
must be able to manage information efficiently, without
interruptions to operations. The NetApp unified storage solution
was best suited to our multifaceted needs," says the IT Team at
Bennett, Coleman & Co., India's largest media group. "We chose
NetApp because of its reliability and ease of use, ease of
replacement of hard disks, and the uptimes we had already
experienced. We found NetApp's unified storage architecture
appealing and best suited for our requirements."
"Midrange storage is growing fast in the data center across the
Asia Pacific region because of its value and flexibility," said
Graham Penn, Associate VP, Storage, Asia Pacific, IDC. "Now NetApp
raises the bar by enhancing the performance of their successful
FAS3000 series with more value in the midrange and offering
customers a very compelling data center portfolio."
Storage Systems
Paramount among today's product introductions are the
FAS3070 and
V3070 storage systems. Both are aimed at
the midrange and offer scalability to 252TB, superior
application-level availability, and support for unified storage
with both 4Gb FC SAN and 10GbE iSCSI, as well as industry-leading
NAS functionality. The FAS3070 and V3070 are designed for customers
who want high-end SAN performance and data management capabilities
at a midrange price.
Competitively, the NetApp FAS3070 is aimed squarely at the EMC
CLARiiON CX3-80, while far exceeding the scalability and capability
of HP's largest StorageWorks EVA system, the StorageWorks EVA8000.
Benchmarks performed by Veritest, an independent testing lab,
conclude that the FAS3070 delivers higher FC SAN performance for
OLTP workloads than the EMC CX3-80. (Details are available in a
separate release at
http://www.netapp.com/news/press/news_rel_20061107a.)
Unlike either the EVA8000 or the CX3-80, the FAS3070 offers
low-overhead double parity RAID 6 (RAID-DP
TM);
high-performance snapshots; thin provisioning; and the ability to
support FC or IP SAN and NAS-based applications. The FAS3070 also
supports an in-place, modular controller upgrade with no data
migration, no retraining, and no process changes for customers who
want eventually to move from the FAS3070 to the fully compatible
high-end FAS6000 series. Both the EMC and HP systems require
complete hardware and software replacement when upgrading to higher
performing systems, as well as time- and labor-intensive data
migration.
The FAS3070 is logically positioned between the FAS3050 and FAS6030
systems, providing customers with a range of choice points to meet
specific needs for performance and scalability.
The following table compares the NetApp midrange and high-end
hardware products.
| |
FAS3050 and V3050 |
FAS3070 and V3070 |
FAS6030 and V6030 |
| Architecture |
32-bit |
64-bit |
64-bit |
| Memory |
8GB |
16GB |
32GB |
| Expansion Slots |
6 x PCI-X |
6 x PCIe |
10 x PCIe
6 x PCI-X |
| Integrated I/O |
8 x 2Gb FC
8 x GbE |
8 x 4Gb FC
8 x GbE |
16 x 2Gb
FC 12 x GbE |
| Max. Disk Drives |
336 |
504 |
840 |
| Max. Storage Capacity |
168TB |
252TB |
420TB |
FC SAN Capabilities
On the FC SAN front, NetApp has enhanced multipath support and
enhanced 4Gb SAN infrastructure support. The company has also
certified and extended its SAN portfolio with more switches,
including the Brocade SilkWorm 4900, the Brocade SilkWorm 48000 and
new blades, the Cisco MDS 9513, and the QLogic 5600 and 5602.
Repeated TCO studies performed by third parties demonstrate that
NetApp continues to offers the industry's lowest SAN TCO, and
customer data has proved superior business application uptime using
NetApp SAN solutions versus competitive offerings.
Software
NetApp continues to increase business value for its data center
customers with higher productivity and flexibility, thanks largely
to the powerful software features and components in the
NetApp
Manageability Software Family. As part of the company's
business applications campaign kickoff, NetApp announced new
versions of
SnapManager® for Oracle and
SnapManager
for Exchange, which provide data protection and cloning for
application environments. NetApp also released updated products for
file management with a new version of its
Virtual File Manager
Enterprise Edition and unveiled a completely new
Virtual
File Manager Migration Edition to support file migration and
file share consolidation.
Soumitra Agarwal continued, "Today NetApp also kicked off its
'business applications' campaign, helping customers understand just
how much value they can get out of their Oracle®, SQL,
Microsoft® Exchange, and SAP applications through higher
levels of integration with NetApp solutions. Integrating storage
management capabilities into business applications at the
application level is increasingly important for maximum performance
and uptime. Others talk of the 'data center of tomorrow'-this kind
of tight application integration is making tomorrow happen
today."
Also in the NetApp Manageability Software Family, NetApp introduced
Protection ManagerTM, an automated backup and
replication management tool for NetApp disk-to-disk environments.
Protection Manager uses policy-based management to maximize data
protection in data centers, remote offices, and disaster recover
sites; to eliminate time-consuming manual mapping; and to help
reduce the costs associated with manually managing secondary and
tertiary storage resources. More information on Protection Manager
is available at
http://www.netapp.com/in/products/management-software/protection.html.
Finally on the software front, NetApp unveiled
CommandCentral�� Storage by Symantec, which
integrates storage resource management (SRM), performance, and
policy management and provisioning for high-end heterogeneous SAN
environments. This reduces the number of tools that IT and storage
administrators must rely on, helps those administrators gain
complete visibility for tactical and strategic storage decisions,
enables rapid provisioning of storage and SAN in mixed
environments, and increases data availability with automated
monitoring and alerts. Detailed information on CommandCentral
Storage is available at
http://www.netapp.com/in/products/management-software/command-central.html.
Services
Professional services that were announced today, delivered by
NetApp Global Services and their NetApp Global Services Partner
Network, help customers accelerate design, deployment, migrations,
and optimization of their Exchange, SQL, and Oracle solutions.
Expanding the existing professional services portfolio, these
solutions help customers deploy the right storage solution to make
the most of their business applications and to help them leverage
years of NetApp "blueprinting" and expertise in those environments.
With the new Exchange, Oracle, and SQL implementation services,
customers can rapidly and cost effectively upgrade and migrate to
new platforms, consolidate their data, and optimize their business
continuity capabilities. NetApp Global Services partners are NetApp
certified and are trained to design and implement solutions based
on best practices. The new design and implementation services
include:
- Exchange Implementation Services to help customers
accelerate upgrades and migrations
- SQL Implementation Services to help customers optimize
their SQL on NetApp solutions to maximize availability,
performance, and scalability
- Oracle Implementation Services to help customers speed
time to deployment for Oracle on NetApp solutions
Additionally, NetApp debuted the next generation of AutoSupport,
the next step in their move toward automated and remote support
services. AutoSupport provides proactive alerting to improve
supportability and enhanced problem diagnostics, and makes system
health and optimization recommendations based on weekly logs. More
information on these services is available at
http://www.netapp.com/in/support/premium-in.html.
Pricing and Availability
All customer pricing for products described in this press release
is available from NetApp sales or sales partners.
Technical Information
Technical information is available online for these and other
products. To receive ongoing technical updates and to learn more,
with exclusive online member content, register for the NetApp Tech
OnTap program at
http://www.netapp.com/in/communities/tech-ontap/.
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Contact Details
Arati Bam
NetApp India
Ph: (080) 4184 3000
Email: arati.bam@netapp.com