LONDON.-May 9, 2011-
Customers today are experiencing an explosion in the sheer volume
of data and information like never before. From managing massive
amounts of data generated from big-bandwidth applications to
real-time analysis of complex datasets, customers require storage
products and solutions that are optimised to help them address
these unique applications. NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced a
portfolio of products and solutions built on the NetApp®
E-Series Platform to enable customers and partners to effectively
tackle these new and growing storage requirements. The E-Series
Platform leverages technology gained from
NetApp's completed purchase of the Engenio external storage
systems business from LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) and enables
NetApp to enter emerging markets.
NetApp E5400 Storage
System
The NetApp E5400 storage system, which is available for OEMs, is a
sixth-generation storage system that delivers high-class
performance optimal for big-bandwidth applications, extreme storage
density, and exceptional uptime. This unique combination makes the
E5400 an ideal solution for high-performance environments with
massive amounts of critical data and computing demands that require
enterprise-class scalability and reliability. Benefits include the
following:
- The E5400 provides OEMs with a proven architecture, with over
300,000 E-Series systems shipped and a history of more than 20
years of design knowledge and firmware development.
- The E5400's compact 4U form factor integrates controllers and
drives to maximise storage density while reducing operational
expenditures.
- The E5400's fully redundant design and online administration
enable continuous high-speed data access.
"NetApp is a storage-focused company, which
enables us to make R&D investments in advanced storage
technologies and existing product enhancements much faster and more
effectively than other vendors," said Joel Reich, vice president
and GM of the Array Products Business Unit, NetApp. "With the
E-Series Platform now part of the NetApp portfolio, we will
continue to build upon the existing product road map and
engineering innovations to deliver to our OEMs a high-speed,
cost-effective, scalable, and reliable storage platform to help
them address their customers' growing high-performance workload
requirements."
NetApp Technology Enables Improvement
of Battlefield Intelligence with New Full-Motion Video Storage
Solution
Full-motion video is fast becoming a tool widely used and leveraged
by federal government agencies to improve operational and
intelligence support on the battlefield. Full-motion video data,
which is gathered from unmanned vehicles and satellites, provides
mission-critical information that enables better decision-making in
environments in which every second counts. The adoption of this
technology is expected to increase over the next several years as
federal customers capture and store multiple streams of
high-definition digital video more frequently, placing an enormous
strain on IT infrastructures. NetApp today unveiled a Full-Motion
Video Storage Solution built on the E-Series Platform, enabling
government agencies to more effectively take advantage of
full-motion video.
"The market for full-motion video and digital
video surveillance is growing at an accelerated pace and is
primarily being driven by government demand," said Tom Coughlin,
president, Coughlin Associates. "In particular, agencies within the
federal government are looking for advanced storage solutions to
help them manage and capture an incredible amount of data in an
efficient manner. To help them address this challenge, agencies are
turning to IT vendors, such as NetApp, who can offer them unique
solutions that meet their specific and critical video capture
needs."
"As a leading and trusted storage provider to
the federal government, we have unique insight into some new use
cases around full-motion video," said Mark Weber, president of U.S.
Public Sector, NetApp. "The convergence of warfare
technology, richer media types, huge datasets, and large-scale data
processing is creating new challenges for our customers in terms of
how they manage and capture all of this video information. NetApp
is providing the federal government with a storage solution that is
purpose built to handle the unique requirements of full- motion
video and is preconfigured for easy deployment, enabling federal
agencies to make better and faster mission-critical decisions in
the field."
The solution leverages the new NetApp E5400,
part of the E-Series Platform, and is combined with the
StorNext® data management solution from Quantum®, making
it ideal for big-bandwidth requirements for full-motion video
capture and analysis.
NetApp Offers Hadoop Storage Solution
to Accelerate Adoption of Big-Analytics Applications
Business and IT leaders face significant opportunities and
challenges in analysing growing volumes of data. Traditional
technologies are optimised for business data and transaction
processing. Hadoop was designed to enable real-time or
near-real-time data analysis and is an innovative platform to help
businesses focus on managing and deriving business benefits from
larger and more complex datasets. NetApp today announced a new
solution built on the E-Series Platform that enables speed of
deployment and simplifies manageability of Hadoop infrastructure,
allowing customers to deploy a solution in hours versus weeks and
to dynamically expand to petabyte scale.
The E-Series Platform provides an optimised,
purpose-built storage solution to address various big-analytics
applications. By simplifying and packaging the deployment of Hadoop
infrastructure, NetApp accelerates the time to value and enables
customers to scale their deployments more practically and
predictably. Working with an ecosystem of partners, NetApp
continues its commitment to industry standards and open sources,
including the Apache distribution of Hadoop.
"NetApp has a strong history of leadership in
supporting new technology innovations. Hadoop democratises access
to previously untapped data and information," said Rich Clifton,
senior vice president at NetApp. "Our solution allows enterprise
adopters to gain business advantage by analysing vast quantities of
information in real time. Customers can deploy the solution in
hours versus weeks and scale predictably and simply."
NetApp customers are already moving toward
Hadoop deployments to address big-analytics problems. A Fortune 100
technology and finance company uses Hadoop for a range of analytics
to gain increased insights into business-critical data to
understand customer buying behavior and offer more targeted
products and services. A government intelligence agency required
the ability to provide users with a connected system for
intelligence that improved collaboration, discovery, and
correlation analysis for increased national security. Hadoop
solutions provided an intelligence system that consolidated data
from disparate systems to mitigate the complexity and address the
scale of this class of problem.
The Hadoop storage solution is a
preconfigured and modular offering built on the currently shipping
NetApp E2600. Part of the E-Series Platform, the solution has a
base configuration of 16 to 32 nodes. System sizing and validation
eliminate the guesswork and allow customers to deploy Hadoop
clusters in hours versus weeks.
Availability and
Pricing
Availability and pricing for the E5400 are available through
NetApp's OEM partners. Learn more about
the E5400 storage system and additional offerings in the
E-Series
Platform.
The Full-Motion Video Solution is available
from federally focused system integrators and value- added
resellers who are part of the NetApp Partner Program. Pricing is
available through these partners. With this purpose-built solution,
our partners provide a simplified sales model, enabling the
solution to be delivered and implemented faster and more
efficiently for federal government customers. Learn more about the
new Full-Motion
Video Solution and other solutions targeted
for the U.S. Public Sector.
The Hadoop solution is expected to be
available in the second quarter of NetApp's fiscal year 2012.
Pricing will be determined at that time.
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