NetApp Customers Drive Rapid Adoption of Deduplication
Bangalore
,
India - April 1st, 2008 - NetApp today
announced that the deduplication adoption rate among its customers
has tripled since November 2007, with more than 3,500 systems and
100 petabytes (PB) of raw storage capacity, clearly positioning
NetApp as a leader in deduplication technology. NetApp now has more
than 1,000 customers who have deployed NetApp® deduplication
across all tiers of data, including primary, backup, and archival
data, making it the only vendor to offer end-to-end deduplication.
Deduplication technology is quickly gaining
traction with customers who struggle with data proliferation and
the challenges associated with it.Now customers can eliminate
redundant data quickly and easily,which improves space and power
efficiencies, and reduces the amount of raw storage required.
Furthermore, NetApp deduplication strengthens NetApp's portfolio of
space-saving technologies, which also include RAID 6,thin
provisioning and flexible clones.Like these other space-saving
technologies, NetApp deduplication is a core part ofthe Data
ONTAP® operating system, so it is available across thecomplete
FAS family of storage systems, and all classes of storage. NetApp
is the only major storage and data management vendor to embed
deduplication technology across its entire line of storage
systems.
Deduplication, which is free of charge to
customers as an inherent feature in all NetApp storage systems,
will also be free when it is extended to NetApp's Virtual Tape
Library (VTL) offering later this year. The deduplication option
for NearStore® VTL will dramatically reduce the cost of
storing backup copies of data on disk.
"Deduplication has become a core element of
our storage system offerings as more and more customers grapple
with data proliferation," said Soumitra Agarwal, Marketing Director
- India, NetApp. "Deduplication helps our customers control this
growth while reducing costs. At the same time, it's apparent that
customers are rethinking their traditional data backup approaches
as VTL becomes more prevalent. Through our innovation we will
continue to address customer needs, which will include extending
deduplication to our VTL offering."
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NetApp India
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Email: arati.bam@netapp.com