LONDON, UK March 4, 2009 -
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that deduplication adoption
among its customer base continues to grow at an impressive rate.
Already one of the fastest growing technologies in the company's
history, NetApp® deduplication has been delivered to more than
5,000 customers worldwide, comprising more than 30,000 systems
containing 385PB of storage capacity. With NetApp's unique
deduplication technology, customers are able to eliminate duplicate
data across all tiers of storage, allowing them to combat data
proliferation while creating a more efficient storage
infrastructure.
In addition to NetApp's complete family of FAS systems, the power
of its deduplication technology was also recently extended to
NetApp V-Series virtualized storage systems and Virtual Tape
Library (VTL) systems. As a result, NetApp deduplication can now be
applied to storage systems manufactured by EMC, HP, Hitachi Data
Systems, and others, providing customers with the industry's only
end-to-end deduplication solution, spanning primary, backup, and
archival storage applications
"Users are under growing pressure to increase the efficiency of
their storage assets," said Benjamin Woo, vice president and senior
analyst at IDC. "One way of achieving this is by boosting
utilization levels by leveraging deduplication in newer,
non-traditional use cases. NetApp has made considerable progress by
delivering over 30,000 systems with its deduplication technology,
and, as such, it has validated the fact that deduplication can be
applied across a wide variety of applications and storage
tiers."
The City of Hartford, a NetApp customer, is Connecticut's largest
metropolitan area, with over one million residents. In its attempt
to become one of the nation's most energy-efficient and
environmentally friendly cities, the City of Hartford has developed
a cleaner, more cost-effective IT infrastructure. NetApp
deduplication technology has played a major role in this
initiative.
"NetApp's deduplication technology helps us conserve as much
storage space as possible, especially with desktop virtualization,
where all of our machines are based off a single image," said
Jonathan Shevis, Server Systems manager, Metro Hartford Information
Services, The City of Hartford. "In fact, initial deduplication
tests that we conducted on our NetApp volumes that support virtual
desktops showed very promising space savings of over 50%."
"In today's economy, IT departments are searching for ways to
optimize their data centres in a more efficient manner," said
Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing, NetApp. "As
data growth continues at a rapid pace, deduplication is a key
technology that allows IT departments to do more with less, while
extending the value of their storage purchase decisions. The fact
that NetApp now offers deduplication across its entire enterprise
product line illustrates our commitment to providing customers with
the most efficient storage systems in the industry."
NetApp deduplication strengthens NetApp's portfolio of space-saving
technologies, which includes thin provisioning, Snapshot™
copies, and flexible clones. Like most of these space-saving
technologies, NetApp deduplication is a feature that comes at no
extra cost. NetApp is the only major storage and data management
vendor to embed deduplication technology in all of its unified
storage systems.
Learn more about the latest in NetApp and industry deduplication
news by visiting NetApp's Dr. Dedupe Blog at http://blogs.netapp.com/drdedupe/.
NetApp's Larry Freeman, who has more than 25 years of storage
industry experience, is Dr. Dedupe. Freeman's current role at
NetApp is to provide clarity around data storage efficiency
techniques, including deduplication. Freeman is the founder and
co-chair of SNIA's Data Deduplication and Space Reduction Special
Interest Group and is also active within the SNIA Green Storage
Initiative.
Also, listen to the podcast titled "Deduplication: Myths and Realities," with
Larry Freeman on best practices and current myths around
heterogeneous storage environments, including applications,
benefits, and performance of deduplication solutions.
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