New Delhi, India. - November 29, 2010
- More customers are rethinking their IT infrastructures
and evaluating alternatives to cope with the new realities of
today's business growth and pace. There is a sense of urgency to
act now and move from a siloed infrastructure to a shared IT infrastructure that is more
efficient and flexible in addressing today's rapidly evolving
business requirements. To help customers respond to these demands,
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today unveiled new platform features,
products, and technologies that will help customers make the
transition to a flexible
and efficient
shared IT infrastructure-the foundation for cloud computing-and
enable IT to be an accelerator of the business.
"There's a significant change underway as
CIOs look to better align IT to the speed of business and get IT
budgets under control," said Tom Georgens, president and chief
executive officer, NetApp. "This is a pivotal time, because the
decisions IT leaders make will not only impact how they compete
today but also the long-term success of their businesses. Winners
in this market are thinking and choosing differently, and more
customers are turning to NetApp as their storage platform to
achieve greater flexibility and efficiency. We are paving the way
for customers to transition to a shared IT infrastructure that will
help them be ready for the future and
use IT as a tool to capitalize on new growth opportunities."
Added Rajesh Janey, President NetApp India
& SAARC "Businesses are changing. Success depends on
flexibility, innovation and secure collaboration. With the ever
increasing need to reduce costs, flexible and shared infrastructure
solutions are increasingly being preferred. Shared IT
Infrastructure solutions are spearheading the transition from the
traditional approach to an on-demand model. The comprehensive
portfolio of new platforms and solutions that we are announcing
today, will help businesses in their transformation to a flexible
and efficient shared IT infrastructure. This would enable them to
capitalize on new opportunities, go to market faster and innovate
ahead of their competition."
The following new product and technology
portfolio delivers the storage platform of choice for customers to
build their shared IT infrastructure
and make IT more flexible and efficient.
- Unified Architecture and Systems
Portfolio
- NetApp Data ONTAP® 8: Data ONTAP 8 has new
features to enable greater flexibility, efficiency, scalability,
and performance. A first for the industry, Unified Connect takes
the unified architecture to new levels by supporting all protocols
through a single wire to help increase efficiency, improve
performance, and simplify management. NetApp DataMotion for Volumes
allows customers to move large volumes of data without disrupting
their business operations. In addition, new inline data compression
can be used alone or with deduplication to help dramatically reduce
the amount of storage needed and improve storage efficiency.
- NetApp FAS/V6200 Series:
A family of three new high-end storage systems-FAS/V6280,
FAS/V6240, and FAS/V6210-extends NetApp's unified architecture and
provides double the performance, increased enterprise-class
availability, and more scalability and flexibility. Customers can
meet their mission-critical business requirements while responding
to the rapid growth and pace of their business.
- NetApp FAS/V3200 Series:
A family of three new midrange storage systems-FAS/V3270,
FAS/V3240, and FAS/V3210-delivers one of the industry's most
cost-effective platform for greater flexibility and efficiency,
higher performance, and enterprise availability, to support today's
midrange storage requirements and adapt to future changes.
- NetApp Solid State Drives (SSDs): In addition
to its market-leading Flash
Cache technology, the introduction of SSDs extends NetApp's
portfolio to provide an option for customers who require
consistently fast response times for mission-critical applications.
The new SSDs deliver high input/output operations per second and
the flexibility to use them for SAN or NAS without needing a
gateway or different storage system.
- NetApp SAS
Disk Shelf: NetApp's third-generation SAS-based shelf,
the new DS2246, helps double the performance density, can provide
up to 50% better power efficiency per rack unit, and offers strong
resiliency and availability for enterprise storage needs.
- OnCommand Management Software Suite
- NetApp's new management suite, OnCommand, allows greater
control and optimization of unified storage, automation for
operational efficiency, and optimal flexibility with an open API
that integrates with a variety of third-party management products
and hypervisors.
- FlexPod Modular Data Center Solution
- As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp, and
VMware are offering a presized, validated, standardized data center
architecture design that is available through select joint channel
partners. FlexPod for
VMware® helps customers accelerate their transformation to
a virtualized, shared IT infrastructure with consistent and proven
designs to simplify deployment and help reduce risk.
In addition to the new product portfolio
detailed above, NetApp introduced a simpler software pricing
structure to make it easier for customers and partners to do
business with NetApp. The new software pricing structure offers
more value-added software for no additional cost as part of the
base package, enhancing value and increasing flexibility for
customers customizing their infrastructure.
Availability and
Pricing
The NetApp products and technologies can be ordered today through
NetApp or NetApp's worldwide network of value-added authorized
solution providers, distributors and systems integrators. Customer
pricing for these solutions is also available from NetApp sales or
reseller partners. For more information, visit www.netapp.com/in/how-to-buy/.
On demand Virtual Event: "Make the
Leap to a Shared IT Infrastructure"
Join NetApp for on demand virtual event to learn how its new
platform features, products, and technologies can make IT ready for
the future. Hear NetApp executives Tom Georgens, Manish Goel, and
Brendon Howe, as well as Mark Peters, ESG senior analyst, and
Robert Ross, chief security officer and senior vice president of
Network and Technical Services at DCI, discuss how a shared
infrastructure built on NetApp can enable IT to deliver
unparalleled efficiency and flexibility to an organization. Visit
www.netapp.com/in/future-ready/.
Additional Resources
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business
breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around
the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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Addendum: Customer and Partner Quote
Sheet
NetApp works with many technology partners, channel partners,
systems integrators, and service providers to deliver integrated,
best-of-breed solutions that help customers accelerate their path
to a flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructure. Here's what
some of them are saying:
Ashwin Rao, IT Group Director, Cadence Design
Systems
"In today's competitive business environment, organizations need to
respond quickly and scale up to the changing business needs and
customer demands, especially true for a global software and
hardware, IP and services company such as Cadence. With today's
announcement, NetApp has enhanced its commitment to providing
flexible and efficient IT solutions to customers worldwide,
enabling large IT organizations such as ours to rapidly scale,
while ensuring the integrity of our IT infrastructure."
Ravikiran S. Mankikar, CIO - SVC Bank
"We would like to congratulate NetApp on this landmark launch. We
believe this launch will be a defining step enabling the industry
transition to a cloud based IT infrastructure that is flexible,
efficient, and ready for the future," said Mr. Ravikiran S.
Mankikar, CIO, SVC Bank. "In view of the long term success of our
business we wanted to consolidate the storage for all our core
banking applications and use the infrastructure to roll out
Software-as-a-Service to the other Co-operative Banks. Given its
comprehensive portfolio of new platform features and solutions,
NetApp becomes a natural choice. I am confident that the IT
infrastructure provided by NetApp will prove to be a business
accelerator for us."
Sumit Mukhija - National Sales Manager - DataCentre, Cisco
India & SAARC
"Cisco, NetApp and VMware developed FlexPod to help our customers
in India to easily move to a simplified, unified, virtualized
infrastructure. The validated, predefined and pre-configured pod
makes it easy for our mutual customers and channel partners to
implement a flexible, virtualized shared IT infrastructure built on
the unified compute, fabric and storage center module."
Ganesan Arumugam, Partner Director,
VMware India & SAARC Region
"Virtualization and shared storage are critical to enabling a
shared IT infrastructure, which offers organizations greater
flexibility and efficiency to quickly keep pace with the evolving
demands on their businesses. To help our customers move further
faster, VMware has collaborated with Cisco and NetApp to develop
FlexPod, which can significantly reduce risk and simplify
deployment with proven, validated 'out-of-the-box' designs. With
FlexPod, our joint customers can expedite their transition to IT as
a Service with a standardized platform from three industry
leaders."
Naresh Desai, General Manager, Avnet Technology Solutions,
India.
"Avnet Technology Solutions and NetApp have been actively working
together to accelerate the success of value-added resellers and
their end-customers since 2004 globally, and NetApp's Flexible IT
initiative aligns closely to Avnet's solutions-focused approach to
the data center. Together, we will help resellers provide their
customers with the IT services and solutions that will solve not
only today's business challenges, but can quickly evolve to address
their future business needs. Together, NetApp and Avnet Technology
Solutions will allow business partners and end users to accelerate
their success in India through mutually shared cooperation."