Sunnyvale, Calif. - November 9, 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 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 be ready for the future and
use IT as a tool to capitalize 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 inline 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 midrange storage
systems-FAS/V3270, FAS/V3240, and FAS/V3210-delivers one of the
industry's most cost-effective platform for greater flexibility and
efficiency, higher performance, and enterprise availability, to
support today's midrange 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
resiliency and availability for enterprise storage needs.
- OnCommand Management Software Suite
- NetApp's new management suite, OnCommand, allows greater
control and optimization 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 Center Solution
- As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp, and
VMware are offering a presized, validated, standardized data center
architecture design that is available through select joint channel
partners. FlexPod for
VMware® helps customers accelerate their transformation to
a virtualized, 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 customizing their infrastructure.
Supporting Quotes
- Manish Goel, executive vice president of Product
Operations, NetApp
"Yesterday's technology strategies and approaches are inadequate
for today's requirements. The market is moving toward a more
flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructure, which is optimal
for virtualization and cloud computing. Customers no longer ask
if they need to move to this paradigm, they now ask
when and how. And the answer is now and with
NetApp. We were early to recognize this trend and are uniquely
positioned to help customers successfully transition to a shared IT
infrastructure, enabling them to make decisions today that will
impact the long-term success of their business."
- Eddy Navarro, computer systems manager for Storage,
JCVI
"The science of genomics deals with staggering amounts of data and,
on average, the amount of data we must store doubles every year.
New sequencing technologies could increase our storage requirements
by an order of magnitude. Our NetApp storage infrastructure helps
us ensure our scientists have the data they need. Even when the
amount of data grows exponentially, we can count on NetApp to
deliver flexible, efficient storage, so that we can make the most
of the dollars we get from our grants. This means JCVI can continue
to lead efforts to conquer disease and improve the environment
through genomics research."
- Mark Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
(ESG)
"Facing the dual challenges of flat IT budgets and exploding data
growth, IT organizations 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
organizations 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 authorized
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/us/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 organization. To
register, visit www.netapp.com/us/forms/future-ready-reg.html.
Additional Resources
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business
breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around
the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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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:
Sean Kerins, president, North America, for Arrow
Electronics Inc.'s Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS)
Segment
"Arrow ECS applauds NetApp's initiative to increase efficiency and
flexibility for resellers seeking to support the evolving IT needs
of their customers. We look forward to connecting our resellers to
new solutions that are leading the industry in helping customers
build a storage foundation now and for the future."
Kia Behnia, chief technology officer, BMC
Software
"The benefits of cloud computing are well documented, but they can
only be reached with a comprehensive management strategy that
reduces risk and drives compliance. BMC and NetApp integrated
solutions provide customers with the benefit of a fully automated
and flexible end-to-end shared IT cloud infrastructure, beginning
with the initial service request to provisioning, deployment,
management and decommissioning."
Chuck Robbins, senior vice president, US Enterprise,
Commercial and Canada for Cisco
"Cisco, NetApp and VMware developed FlexPod design architecture to
help our customers easily move to a simplified, unified,
virtualized infrastructure. The validated and predefined
architecture makes it easy for our mutual customers and channel
partners to implement a flexible, virtualized shared IT
infrastructure built on the unified compute, fabric and storage
center module."
Frank Artale, vice president, Business Development at
Citrix
"Citrix and NetApp share a vision of providing flexible IT
infrastructures that allow customers to quickly realize the
business benefits of virtual computing, and giving them the ability
to capitalize on new opportunities and innovate to get out in front
of the competition. Combining Citrix virtualization solutions with
Flexible IT from NetApp enables our joint customers to build
simpler and more cost-effective IT environments to enable virtual
work styles for users and virtual data centers for IT."
Paul Lidsky, president and CEO, Datalink
"Data center agility, efficiency, and flexibility continue to be at
the forefront of every conversation we have with businesses across
the country. Leveraging innovative technologies is pivotal to this
strategy. Today's announcement highlights yet another evolution of
NetApp's market-leading technology and provides compelling
advantages for our customers. We are excited to offer NetApp
innovations to help our customers gain market share, reduce costs,
and adapt to ever-changing business needs."
Robert Ross, chief security officer and senior vice
president of Network and Technical Services, DCI
"We support hundreds of community banks, all of which have
different needs and evolving service requirements. As our customers
grow, we need to be able to scale services and capacity in step
with demand. Our shared IT infrastructure from NetApp gives us the
flexibility to provide services to our customers on demand and
address their shifting business needs. By providing flexible,
efficient services, we're helping our customers be competitive
while accelerating our own success."
Ryan McDonald, IT director, eLynx
Technologies
"NetApp is the backbone of eLynx's shared IT infrastructure,
enabling us to consolidate systems on a single platform while
managing multiple workloads and protocols without hindering
performance. Data ONTAP 8 provides the flexibility and scalability
essential to helping us handle our growth by supporting large
aggregates for greater performance and increased efficiency.
Further, NetApp's strong ecosystem of solution partners, such as
Cisco and VMware, delivers flexible IT to help us meet demand and
accelerate our business."
Kazuhiro Igarashi, president of Storage Systems Unit,
Fujitsu Limited
"As an advocate of dynamic infrastructures that make it easier and
more cost effective for organizations to respond quickly to
constantly changing business conditions, Fujitsu applauds NetApp's
commitment to flexible IT. As a Global System Partner in NetApp's
broad partner ecosystem, we look forward to providing our customers
with greater flexibility through our joint solutions."
Amy Rao, founder and CEO, Integrated Archive
Systems
"NetApp's announcement solidifies its industry leadership for
providing the most efficient and cost-effective solutions that
enable a flexible, shared IT infrastructure to meet customers'
business demands. Leveraging NetApp's unique capabilities,
Integrated Archive Systems is excited to be among the first to
evangelize and provide solutions that help customers drive greater
flexibility and efficiencies in their data center."
Stephen Boyle, group vice president, Worldwide Strategic
Alliances, Oracle
"Flexible IT from NetApp and Oracle enables IT teams to provide
affordable, always-ready services at the speed of today's business.
NetApp's new scalable platform and software enhancements, coupled
with Oracle software can help improve flexibility, efficiency and
performance of database environments, and help our customers'
transition to cloud environments."
Robert Fuller, vice president Channel Sales,
Rackspace
"In the past, meeting computing needs meant you had to buy servers,
hire technical talent and continually reinvest to keep up with
technology. As the leader in the IT hosting and cloud computing
industry, Rackspace can combine its hosting solutions with the
flexibility and efficiency of NetApp products and services to
provide a more secure, cost effective and reliable approach to
computing."
Stacy Hayes, vice president of Strategic Alliances,
Terremark
"As a NetApp Service Provider Partner, we leverage NetApp's
flexible and efficient platform and technologies to help us deliver
unique, innovative cloud services that are tailored to our
customers' individual business requirements. By helping our
customers achieve greater flexibility and efficiency within their
IT, we enable them to accelerate the success of their
business."
Gary Green, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances,
VMware
"Virtualization and shared storage are critical to enabling a
shared IT infrastructure, which offers organizations greater
flexibility and efficiency to quickly keep pace 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 standardized platform from three industry
leaders."