Sunnyvale
,
Calif.
-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, nontraditional 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 centers 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 cochair 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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