July 19, 2006 - Network Appliance,
Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced an industry first as it
collaborates with leading backup application vendors to integrate
their solutions with NetApp NearStore VTL Shadow Tape technology.
The integration will significantly accelerate and streamline
enterprise data recovery, while integrating seamlessly with users'
current backup application catalog and tape off-siting policies to
provide customers with unmatched simplicity and ease of management
for their data backup, recovery and protection processes.
NetApp NearStore VTL Shadow Tape technology will specifically
integrate with Veritas NetBackup, the market leading backup
solution from Symantec.
Matt Kixmoeller, senior director of product management for the
NetBackup product line at Symantec, said: "NetApp and Symantec
continue to deliver innovative and flexible data protection
solutions that address customers' needs and demonstrate the value
of a leading backup software provider collaborating with a leader
in storage systems innovation. The new Shadow Tape feature extends
the value of our customers' investments in NetBackup software by
automating the rapid retrieval of backup data from disk."
In addition to NetBackup, NetApp Shadow Tape technology will also
integrate with backup technologies from BakBone, CommVault and
Syncsort (see attached quote sheet).
Enterprise storage users currently rank integration with backup
software as the most important functionality in a VTL, based on the
recent Storage Wave 7 study from TheInfoPro, Inc.
(www.theinfopro.net). Backup application-VTL integration (from
NetApp and its partners) will automate a recovery process that is
currently manual, enabling customers to instantaneously restore
backup data from disk that has already been written to physical
tapes and shipped to off-site storage, all in a way that is fully
compatible with the backup application catalog. The open approach
NetApp is taking by working with leading backup application vendors
will allow customers to benefit from disk-to-disk backup technology
without changing their existing backup processes, dramatically
simplifying customer adoption of D2D backup technology into their
enterprise backup environments.
Mike Karp, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates, said:
"As a result of tight integration between backup applications and
VTL solutions, enterprise customers are realising that integration
is a key ingredient to streamlining the success of their backups. A
cost-effective, efficient VTL solution means faster and more
complete operations while at the same time protecting the
customer's preexisting investment in scripts, procedures and
policies. IT sites can continue to utilise their backup
applications as the control point for backup and recovery
operations."
Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Alliances Marketing
at Network Appliance, said: "We continue our tradition of openness
and proven history of working closely with partners to provide
customers with flexibility by supporting whatever backup
application they use. NetApp will continue to aggressively add
value to the NearStore VTL platform to improve the economics of
backup and recovery for traditional tape environments. Once
integration is complete, customers will benefit from simpler
management, faster access to backup data and improved service
levels for corporate IT users."
About NetApp Shadow Tape Technology on NearStore VTL
NetApp NearStore VTL is a dedicated, enterprise-class storage
appliance that emulates physical tape libraries, stores large
capacities of backup data on disk and automatically copies data to
physical tape under backup application control within any open
systems storage environment. NearStore VTL is a disk-to-disk backup
solution for all open systems enterprise primary storage, including
EMC, Hitachi and IBM storage environments.
NetApp Shadow Tape technology on NearStore VTL automatically caches
backups onto disk, helping to achieve fast restores for backups
that have already been off-sited on physical tape while seamlessly
integrating within the management framework of integrated backup
applications. Shadow Tape increases the value of disk-to-disk
backup by improving recovery service levels and reducing management
costs. Shadow Tape technology is available today on the NearStore
VTL600 and VTL1200. For more details on NearStore VTL, including
how the solution achieves flagship performance and tape economies,
go to
www.netapp.com/products/storage-systems/nearstore-vtl/.
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Commission, including its mostly recently submitted 10-K and
10-Q.
Supporting Partners
BakBone
"BakBone has a track record of working closely with NetApp to
pioneer industry leading solutions to end user data protection
challenges," said Jeff Drescher, director of product management,
BakBone. "NetVault Backup support for NetApp Shadow Tape technology
enables customers to realise cost and efficiency improvements in
two key areas of the backup process; offsite tape creation and the
recovery of critical backup data - even after the tapes have left
the premises."
CommVault
"CommVault is working closely with NetApp to support the new
NearStore VTL Shadow Tape feature in our QiNetix suite of Unified
Data Management solutions," said David West, Vice President,
marketing and business development, CommVault. "CommVault Galaxy
Backup & Restore software, paired with NetApp Shadow Tape
technology, offers reliable, cost-effective enterprise-level data
protection for customers adding disk-to-disk capability, while
preserving investments in existing tape infrastructure. Customers
will benefit from the fast data recovery offered by VTLs and the
ability to automatically create physical tapes for offsite storage
offered by NearStore VTL when using CommVault's centralised,
browser-based management console."
Syncsort
"Syncsort and NetApp are working closely to simplify the backup and
recovery process of our customers with heterogeneous SAN
environments," said Harvey Tessler, director of marketing at
Syncsort. "Backup Express support for NearStore VTL and shadow
tapes directly addresses common customer concerns when implementing
disk-to-disk backups: seamless integration with their
backup/recovery application and schedule and fast and reliable
recovery of backup data."