London, UK. -October 20,
2010- Today's demanding business pace, explosive data
growth, and a shift in the market from aging, siloed architectures
to shared IT infrastructures are causing customers to rethink their
approach to IT. NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) anticipated these market
shifts and architected Data ONTAP® 8 to address
customers' needs to scale up and scale out as they move to
flexible, efficient shared IT infrastructures that drive business
impact.
Customers now think differently and use new
criteria to evaluate alternatives and remain competitive. More
customers are migrating to Data ONTAP 8 to build flexible,
scalable, and efficient shared storage environments that address
today's business challenges and the future requirements of their
business. With thousands of systems deployed, Data ONTAP 8 can
deliver flexible, integrated dual modes of operation and a unified,
scalable platform that supports multiple workloads and drives IT
consolidation.
News Facts
- Eight key purchasing criteria are setting the foundation for
enabling a shared IT infrastructure that allows customers to
efficiently deliver IT on demand and keep pace with changing
business requirements.
- These criteria include scale-up and scale-out, a unified
architecture, integrated data protection, intelligent caching,
nonstop operations, secure multi-tenancy, storage efficiency, and
service automation and analytics. NetApp®
best-of-breed technologies are built on Data ONTAP, which
currently, is the optimal platform of choice for building shared IT
infrastructures.
- Data ONTAP 8 is currently the industry's only platform that
delivers enterprise-class functionality with clustering technology
in dual modes of operation, providing customers with the
flexibility to meet their individual business requirements and
enable a seamless transition to shared IT infrastructures.
- Customers migrating to Data ONTAP 8 are deploying shared
storage infrastructures that address their data growth challenges
and enable increased flexibility, performance, and efficiency while
helping lower operational costs.
- University Hospitals Leuven, one of the largest healthcare
providers in Europe, leveraged NetApp's flexible, unified
architecture to streamline their IT operations, address the demands
of their dramatic business growth, and simplify access to growing
volumes of business and patient data across multiple
platforms.
Solution Details
- Unified Architecture: NetApp introduced the industry's
first unified storage architecture and continues to deliver a
single, unified architecture powered by Data ONTAP 8. While
competitors have attempted unified approaches, NetApp has been
innovating to provide a unified storage platform that is currently
unmatched in the industry and ideal for customers making the
transition to a shared IT infrastructure. As more customers move to
shared IT environments, the technology leadership and direction
NetApp established nearly a decade ago is proving optimal for
customers in meeting current and future requirements for
architecting scalable, efficient, and flexible
infrastructures.
- Dual Operation Modes: Data ONTAP 8 is architected to
allow customers to choose the system mode that supports their
changing needs and make the transition to shared IT
infrastructures. Data ONTAP 8, 7-Mode combines the new 64-bit
scalable architecture with the functionality, features, and unified
architecture that NetApp customers have come to rely on. Data ONTAP
8 Cluster-Mode offers traditional clustered deployments a path
forward and provides unique capabilities necessary to simplify data
management, support nonstop operations, and make the transition to
shared IT infrastructures.
- Scalability: Based on a 64-bit architecture, Data ONTAP
8 offers increased performance, integrated dual modes, and advanced
processing capabilities for multicore, next-generation hardware
environments to help customers deliver predictable performance
levels and adapt to the evolving needs of the business. Using
multimode clusters of up to 24 nodes, customers can scale out as
well as scale up seamlessly from low-end to high-end systems.
- Efficiency: With Data ONTAP 8, customers can optimise
the utilisation of infrastructure assets and improve storage
efficiency with NetApp's unique portfolio of storage efficiency
technologies such as thin provisioning and deduplication.
- Flexibility: Data ONTAP 8 supports all workloads whether
file or block, enabling customers to manage their explosive data
growth and move to shared IT infrastructures. Support for multiple
protocols on the same platform allows customers greater flexibility
to mix and match protocols as necessary to suit changing
environments. In addition, the ability to provide traditional
2-node HA pair deployment or multinodes of up to 24-node clusters
offers customers multiple solution options, regardless of their
needs within the shared IT infrastructure domain.
Supporting Quotes
- Ed Chow, Vice President of Product Management, Storage
Systems Product Group at NetApp
- "Customers are facing unprecedented challenges and
thinking differently about how the IT infrastructure investments
they make can accelerate their business today and tomorrow. NetApp
architected Data ONTAP 8 to address this shift in the market and
help our customers evolve to flexible and efficient environments
that address changing business requirements. Our success in
achieving strong adoption is a testament to the powerful innovation
Data ONTAP 8 provides as a platform of choice for shared IT
infrastructure".
- Reinoud Reynders, IT Infrastructure Director at University
Hospitals Leuven in Belgium
- "NetApp has been instrumental in helping University
Hospitals Leuven achieve operational efficiencies and manage
substantial data growth rates of 50% year over year. Data ONTAP 8
came at the right time for us and allows us to move volumes of data
nondisruptively to support data-intensive healthcare applications.
NetApp's unified architecture provides the performance we need to
support multiple transactional workloads, scalability to support
large data formats, and flexibility to adapt rapidly to our
changing business needs".
NetApp Virtual Event: "Make the Leap to a
Shared Infrastructure"
NetApp will host a virtual event on November 9 at 10:00 a.m. PT on
how NetApp's technologies, products, and solutions can make IT
ready for the future. Hear NetApp executives Tom Georgens, Manish
Goel, and Brendon Howe; ESG analyst Mark Peters; and NetApp
customers discuss how a shared IT infrastructure built on NetApp
can enable IT to deliver unparalleled efficiency and flexibility to
an organisation. To register, visit
www.netapp.com/us/forms/future-ready-reg.html.
Additional Resources
About NetApp
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that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost
efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around
the world go further, faster at www.netapp.co.uk.
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