NetApp Ushers in Next Wave of Data Center Transformation
Mumbai, India. - February 19, 2008
- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced new products and
capabilities as part of the NetApp® Manageability Software
Family to enable customers to transform their data center
architectures. Today's announcement is driven by NetApp storage
innovations for virtualized servers that will help customers
improve their IT infrastructure and processes. Enterprise customers
are undergoing significant data center transformations to enhance
IT flexibility and efficiency as server virtualization moves into
broader deployment. To enable this transformation, NetApp is
providing customers a proven storage platform for virtualized
environments to achieve increased service levels, higher asset
utilization, and greater data center power, space, and cooling
efficiencies.
"NetApp will be a major catalyst in enabling
customers to capitalize on the next generation of data center
infrastructure, which will help them adapt to change, automate
labour intensive IT management tasks to reduce costs and scale the
infrastructure - non-disruptively - as the business needs evolve",
said Soumitra Agarwal, Marketing Director, NetApp India. "Today we
have established a lead in delivering virtualization solutions and
services that help customers transform their current IT
architectures and amplify the impact that IT operations have on
their business. The combination of server virtualization
technologies from VMware, Microsoft, Oracle and Citrix with
NetApp's networked storage solutions is dramatically improving data
management and providing customers a path to create a flexible and
adaptable IT infrastructure".
Today's news further strengthens NetApp's
unified data management platform with the following new innovative
software solutions to drive customers' data center
transformation:
- SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure -
SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure enables customers to protect
their VMware environments with automated data protection and
recovery of their virtual machines. SnapManager for Virtual
Infrastructure dramatically reduces human error and increases
server utilization for application workloads by eliminating the
interruptions and performance impact caused by traditional
server-hosted backups and restores. As a result, customers can
protect their data more reliably.
- SnapManager Compatibility with VMware Virtualization
Software - All Windows-based SnapManager products are now
compatible with VMware virtualization software, providing customers
the ability to manage data within virtual machines and take full
advantage of the application-specific data management capabilities
provided by NetApp's SnapManager products. Versions are available
for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and Oracle. By extending SnapManager
capabilities to virtual infrastructures, customers now have common
data management tools for both their virtualized and physical
server environments. These innovative products will also help
accelerate deployment of existing Windows applications into new
virtual server environments.
- Provisioning Manager - Provisioning Manager
provides policy-based automation to speed up existing provisioning
processes, improve capacity utilization, and reduce human error
that results in data loss. As a result, storage administrators can
eliminate the complex series of manual steps normally associated
with provisioning storage in both virtual and physical server
environments. This simplifies training for IT staff and liberates
these valuable personnel to work on more strategic IT
priorities.
Significant enhancements to NetApp's
Protection Manager provide seamless protection of virtualized
environments. In addition, updates to NetApp's Data ONTAP®
operating system extend deduplication benefits to customers with
NetApp V-Series and MultiStore® systems. Furthermore, Data
ONTAP SMI-S Agent, which conforms to the SNIA Storage Management
Initiative Specification (SMI-S), is now available to support the
entire line of NetApp FAS systems and NetApp V-Series virtualized
storage systems. These enhancements extend customers' ability to
meet increasingly diverse storage and data management requirements
with a single, familiar, easy-to-use data management platform.
Contact Details
Arati Bam
NetApp India
Ph: (080) 4184 3000
Email: arati.bam@netapp.com