SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 9, 2012
- From consumer data to patient records, organizations are
generating petabytes of data on a daily basis. Creating, managing,
storing, and accessing this information from any location results
in significant business challenges, including delayed response time
for decisions, reduced competitiveness, and increased capital
expenditures. Across industries including healthcare, financial
services, and media, organizations need secure and easy access to
data throughout its lifetime.
To address these challenges, NetApp (NASDAQ:
NTAP) today announced the release of StorageGRID® 9.0
software, enabling organizations to adapt to data growth, manage
big content, cut costs, and better share information. NetApp®
StorageGRID software combined with the NetApp E-Series storage
platform is designed to manage petabyte-scale distributed
repositories of images, video, and records for enterprises and
service providers. With the release of StorageGRID 9.0, NetApp is
the first major storage company to include support for the Cloud
Data Management Interface (CDMI) open standard that specifies a
protocol for self-provisioning, administering, and accessing cloud
storage. Building on its history of industry partnerships and
standards support, NetApp provides native multiprotocol
functionality to support a wide range of protocols, including
Network File System (NFS), Common Internet File System (CIFS),
RESTful HTTP, and, now, CDMI.
"As the amount and types of data grow in this
new big data world, technologies like CDMI help our customers
manage not only raw growth but also the increasing pressure to
leverage data to gain insight across ever more distributed
environments, "said Rich Clifton, senior vice president, Solutions
and Integrations Group, NetApp.
NetApp StorageGRID combined with E-Series is
the foundation for the NetApp Distributed Content Repository
solution that scales to hundreds of petabytes with billions of
records across hundreds of sites in a single name space. NetApp
E-Series offers flexible, high-performance, and very dense storage
ideal for big data applications. The NetApp Distributed Content
Repository solution based on StorageGRID and E-Series supports a
single, unified repository for data with enforceable
metadata-driven granular retention policies across multiple
locations. Enterprises benefit from secure, large-scale, and
long-term distributed repositories with predictable and timely
access to data.
NetApp and Iron Mountain Enable
Healthcare Organizations to Reduce IT Costs and Gain Access to
Critical Patient Data
In today's era of big data, having access to the right clinical
data at the necessary time is one of the challenges facing the
healthcare industry. Medical organizations are looking at how to
best address the rapid growth of medical images and other digital
content, while adhering to privacy rules, providing access to data
at remote sites, and maintaining regulatory compliance. Many of
these providers turn to Iron Mountain, a NetApp Service Provider
Partner that uses NetApp technology, to provide their clinicians
with long-term and predictable access to data and to consolidate
diverse data sources into a unified cloud environment.
"Our healthcare customers ask us to help them
deal with their rising storage volumes, as well as manage the
retention and access for their medical imaging data, "said Ken
Rubin, senior vice president and general manager, Healthcare, Iron
Mountain Incorporated. "In response to this, we offer a managed
service that provides the dual benefit of controlling their storage
costs while improving their ability to recover from a disaster. Our
service, powered by StorageGRID coupled with the E-Series platform,
enables us to deliver our customers cost-effective, long-term
storage without compromising security or access."
Key Highlights
Today's release of StorageGRID 9.0 enables the NetApp Distributed
Content Repository solution to provide:
- Scalable multivendor repository strategies with support for the
SNIA CDMI standard that enables the creation, retrieval,
management, and deletion of data in the cloud
- Simplified enterprise data retrieval by storing hundreds of
petabytes and billions of datasets in a single logical
container
- Reduced data center space requirements with industry-leading
storage density
- Lower costs through secure large-scale distributed repositories
for unstructured data
- Improved business agility through scalable multisite content
repositories
Supporting Quote
- Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy
Group
"Big data creation can result in a big content retention reality
check. To efficiently deal with data growth at ever increasing
levels of scale, companies are employing distributed content
repositories. The successful deployment of these large multisite
repositories requires solutions with policy-based data management;
secure long-term content retention, archival, and disposition
capabilities; metadata-enabled object storage; and interoperability
with key industry standards, such as CDMI, to enable fast and
efficient ISV integration. This announcement is an example of how
NetApp continues to work with IT leaders to make big content
management simpler with more efficient and self-managing
systems."
Additional Resources
About NetApp
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that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business
breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our core values and
consistently being recognized as a great place to work around the
world are fundamental to our long-term growth and success, as well
as the success of our pathway partners and customers. Discover our
passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster
at www.netapp.com.
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