LONDON, UK. - 09 November 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 that 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 to be ready for the future and use IT as a tool to
capitalise on new growth opportunities."
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 in-line 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 mid-range storage systems - FAS/V3270,
FAS/V3240 and FAS/V3210 - delivers one of the industry's most
cost-effective platforms for greater flexibility and efficiency,
higher performance and enterprise availability to support today's
mid-range 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
resilience and availability for enterprise storage needs.
- OnCommand Management Software Suite
- NetApp's new management suite, OnCommand, allows greater
control and optimisation 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 Centre Solution
- As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and
VMware are offering a presized, validated, standardised data centre
architecture design that is available through selected joint
channel partners. FlexPod for
VMware® helps customers accelerate their transformation to
a virtualised, 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 customising their infrastructure.
Supporting Quotes
- Dave Allen, UK Managing Director, NetApp
"Business demands are changing fast and IT infrastructures need to
adapt to more quickly to new applications and products. To be able
to adopt technologies such as virtualisation and cloud computing
companies need to move towards a more flexible and efficient shared
IT infrastructure. NetApp enables end users to do this and this
launch shows that we have the customer's needs and demands in mind.
Decisions which impact the long-term success of a company's
business are the most important and our technology can help
customers to make these decisions now without future
compromise."
- Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
(ESG)
"Facing the dual challenges of flat IT budgets and exploding data
growth, IT organisations need to keep pace with the business
requirements of today, yet also be ready to adapt and respond to
the demands of tomorrow. The resulting urgency to employ more
dynamic, flexible and efficient IT approaches - including various
cloud implementations - is being enabled by many new technologies
that have matured, including those that NetApp is announcing here.
These can be used to create a genuine shared IT infrastructure that
combines the best of traditional and cloud approaches in order to
allow organisations to seize new opportunities and ultimately to
advance and accelerate their business objectives."
Availability and
Pricing
The NetApp products and technologies can be ordered today through
NetApp or NetApp's worldwide network of value-added, authorised
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/uk/how-to-buy/.
Virtual Event: "Make the Leap to a
Shared IT Infrastructure"
Join NetApp for a 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 organisation. To
register, visit www.netapp.com/uk/future-ready/.
Additional Resources
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
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.uk.
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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 like DCI and eLynx
accelerate their path to a flexible and efficient shared IT
infrastructure. Here's what some of them are saying:
Neil Burton, Solutions Director Datacentre,
Computacenter
"Clients large and small are looking for ways to measurably reduce
costs whilst increasing their ability to be responsive to the
demands of their business. The key is to select partnerships that
deliver solutions that are relevant to these challenges, that are
proven and future proof and that return a predictable TCO.
Computacenter is very pleased to be able to partner with NetApp in
the provision of highly optimised storage platforms to
organisations looking to implement best of breed technologies to
capitalise on new markets and themselves offer better, higher
quality services."
Paul Sweeney, Managing Director, ANS Group
"Organisations can no longer affordably cope with the new realities
of growth and pace of business. A shared infrastructure enables
flexible IT that helps customers seize new opportunities and
accelerate their business. We are excited by today's announcement,
and looking forward to joining forces with NetApp to provide
solutions that help our customers respond on demand to the evolving
needs of the business."
Gary Green, Vice-President, Global Strategic Alliances,
VMware
"Virtualisation and shared storage are critical to enabling a
shared IT infrastructure, which offers organisations greater
flexibility and efficiency to keep pace quickly 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 standardised platform from three industry
leaders."