Mumbai/ Bengaluru, India-August 27,
2009-To empower customers who are rapidly changing the way
their data centers are designed and shifting to a model of IT
delivered as a service (ITaaS), NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today
unveiled Data ONTAP® 8 along with other new technologies and
solutions that will serve as the cloud infrastructure foundation
for today and tomorrow.
"Today's announcements truly usher in a new
era and way of doing business for NetApp," said Rajesh Janey,
president-sales, India and SAARC, NetApp. "Customer dynamics are
changing in the face of increased economic pressures as IT
executives are tasked with doing more with less. As a result, the
makeup of the data center is drastically changing as companies
choose to take advantage of applications, infrastructure, and
platforms delivered in the form of services. NetApp is primed to
take advantage of this major shift in the market by providing
enterprises with not only the industry-leading storage and data
management solutions that are ideal for the cloud, but, more
importantly, also serve as the technology partner of choice to
guide enterprises on their journey in deploying a cloud
infrastructure."
Enterprise customers, global systems
integrators, and service providers are already leveraging existing
Data ONTAP platforms as the foundation for a wide range of their
internal and external cloud deployments. Data ONTAP 8 will build
upon these proven cloud capabilities with enhanced functionality
for virtualized and shared infrastructure environments, including
nondisruptive data mobility, dynamic growth through a scale-out
architecture, and 64-bit storage aggregates to support
multipetabyte deployments. Data ONTAP 8 will also provide customers
with improved data management capabilities and tighter integration
with data center orchestration and management systems, The Data
ONTAP 8 family combines Data ONTAP 7G and Data ONTAP GX under a
single code base in a phased approach that will allow customers to
leverage the combined scale-up and scale-out capabilities.
With the addition of these new innovative and
enhanced capabilities, Data ONTAP 8 provides customers with a
platform that meets their stringent cloud requirements and
addresses their challenges in deploying a cloud storage
infrastructure, including:
- Secure Multi-Tenancy-Customers can deploy a
shared, cost-effective infrastructure across separate user groups
or enterprise customers with NetApp's proven technology called
MultiStore®.
- Transparent Data Motion-Customers can achieve
nondisruptive data access during mandatory shutdowns or upgrades
and respond quickly and transparently within a single-site or
across multi-site distributed deployments.
- Service Automation-Customers can leverage a
comprehensive set of role-based data management and monitoring
tools to meter usage and enable a charge-back model, significantly
reducing operational costs and improving service response
time.
- Storage Efficiency-Customers
can improve ROI for raw storage purchases and reduce data center
space, power, and cooling.
- Integrated Data Protection-Customers can
deploy built-in backup/recovery and business continuity
capabilities, which are a necessity for shared infrastructures that
must always be on.
"While Data ONTAP provides a wide range of
enterprises with storage solutions that fuel their cloud
infrastructures, Data ONTAP 8 will take it to the next level by
providing enhanced scalability, performance, efficiencies, and
other features that are key to the cloud," said Terri McClure,
analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Combine this technology
foundation with its impressive lineup of cloud enablement partners
and NetApp has clearly strengthened its position as a true cloud
storage infrastructure provider."
New Products, Solutions, and Services
Empower the Cloud
The following new NetApp® products, solutions, and services
address customers' critical cloud requirements for a more efficient
and flexible cloud infrastructure:
- NetApp Data Motion™-NetApp's new data
motion technology allows enterprises to move data nondisruptively
across storage systems with zero application downtime. Now
customers can eliminate the impact of planned maintenance outages
in virtualized multi-tenant environments. NetApp Data Motion is the
first solution of its kind in the storage industry and builds upon
the NetApp unified storage architecture to greatly enhance
availability for both internal and external cloud customers.
- Performance Acceleration Module II-The
second-generation Performance Acceleration Module, a family of
flash technology-based caching modules, provides an innovative,
alternative use of flash/SSD technology rather than using SSDs in
disk shelves. Customers can cost-effectively improve performance
across a broader set of workloads without straining their existing
infrastructure. Tests conducted by NetApp with an Online
Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload show that customers can
cost-effectively increase I/O throughput by approximately 78% and
speed response time by approximately 30%. These gains were achieved
using less than 1% more power and no additional rack space. (Link
to this report available in August 25 version of press
release)
- NetApp Dynamic Data Center
(NDDC) Solution-The NetApp dynamic data center
solution is comprised of three components to provide customers with
a proven and tested solution for delivering ITaaS. The first
component is a service-oriented infrastructure (SOI) that leverages
NetApp's industry-leading storage technologies. This standardized
architecture allows customers to consume and deploy storage,
network, and compute resources in a repeatable manner to reduce
costs and increase service levels. NetApp offers these shared
resources through a service catalog to deliver infrastructure as a
service (IaaS) to end users. A second component includes a service
management framework that provides processes and best practices to
help manage the infrastructure and reduce fixed costs wherever
possible. The last component is a delivery methodology that
leverages NetApp Professional Services and NetApp systems
integrator partners to deploy ITaaS infrastructures efficiently and
with the least risk to customers.
- NetApp Fast-Start Customer
Workshop-NetApp now offers two- to
four-day consulting workshops to help customers develop their plan
to deploy their NetApp dynamic data center solution. The workshops
are designed to quickly evaluate the customer's current business
needs, identify the projects necessary to address the needs, and
then help the customer execute a plan to achieve maximum agility
and data center cost savings.
In addition to the products, solutions, and
services detailed above, NetApp also introduced the DS4243 disk
shelf, a versatile SAS/SATA disk subsystem that enables enterprise
customers to streamline their data footprint thanks to the
subsystem's dense and space-efficient design (24TB in 4U). As a
result, enterprise customers with cloud deployments are able to
more efficiently use valuable data center resources.
"T-Systems provides over 170 enterprise
customers worldwide with cloud services for key applications like
SAP® and Microsoft® Exchange with our Dynamic Services
offering," said Olaf Heyden, member of the Board of Management
T-Systems for ICT Operations. "Together with our technology
partners we are able to achieve 90% service infrastructure
utilization, allowing us to pass on both cost savings and higher
service levels to our customers. In fact, our customers see up to
30% reduction in cost using Dynamic Services vs. in-house hosting.
Furthermore, our customers benefit from integrated data protection
and secure multi-tenancy while we are able to flexibly scale IT
resources up and down in a matter of hours rather than days or
weeks. NetApp is an essential component to enabling all of these
benefits by regularly and reliably delivering on our specific
requirements."
"More and more enterprises are moving to a
virtualized infrastructure in order to take advantage of both the
business and IT benefits that it affords, such as increased
flexibility, faster responsiveness, and lower costs," said Surajit
Sen, Director - Channels, Marketing & Alliances,
NetApp India. "The NetApp Data ONTAP storage platform, thanks to
its unique and industry-leading capabilities, has been helping
enterprise customers realize their infrastructure goals for several
years. However, today's announcement of Data ONTAP 8 builds on this
foundation by offering customers the storage solutions and
technologies needed for tomorrow's IT-as-a-Service
environments."
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Additional Resources
Additional resources to be included in August 25 version of press
release.
Pricing and
Availability
All customer pricing for products described in this release is
available from NetApp sales or reseller partners. NetApp Data ONTAP
8, the NetApp Performance Acceleration Module II, and the NetApp
DS4243 disk shelf are scheduled to be available in September 2009.
NetApp Data Motion is scheduled to be available in early 2010.
About NetApp
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