Analyst Reports

An overview of NetApp’s Open Solution for Hadoop.

Enterprise organizations are considering internal clouds to increase operational efficiencies, improve business agility, and drive down cost. In this Gartner guidance document, Research Director Matthew Brisse examines storage integration for the internal cloud and its transformation into a service-centric storage infrastructure.

NetApp commissioned Demartek to evaluate its FAS3240, one of the members of its full line of unified storage solutions, for its ability to handle a full load of mixed traffic types simultaneously.

This study highlights the benefits and costs of deploying NetApp storage in conjunction with desktop virtualization software across the enterprise of a sample Organization (see Sample Organization Description section). The findings in this study are in large part based on in-depth interviews conducted by Forrester with four NetApp customers currently using NetApp storage for desktop virtualization. The study examines the estimated ROI for the sample Organization and presents the aggregate findings derived from the interview and analysis process as well as our independent research.

Large enterprises and service providers seeking to build out either private or public cloud offerings view automation as a central tenet in executing on the vision for IT service automation. For this audience, service-level integration between management and orchestration frameworks and technology components (storage, server, network, applications) is required. For the midsize enterprise, policy-based automation is a way to gain operational efficiencies by automating and simplifying complex, manual, and time-consuming processes for provisioning, backup, restoration, recovery, and cloning of physical or virtual application-specific assets.

In late 2011, Forrester Research started work on a research project commissioned by NetApp that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by adopting NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware’s ESX Server virtualization platform.

This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the FAS2240, NetApp’s newly released entry-level storage system. ESG Lab focused on three key areas that make the FAS2240 an appealing offering for small to medium-sized businesses: easy deployment, simple manageability, and performance scalability.

Technical/compliance assessment of NetApp SnapLock and whether it meets the requirements and conditions of SEC Rule 17a-4(f)

Many organizations struggle with the effectiveness of their backup solutions. With the status quo for recovery deemed outdated, backup looks as if it will morph into a very different activity, with new technologies being deployed to provide improved data protection.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays represents vendors that sell into the end-user market with branded midrange and high-end modular disk array storage systems that support block-access protocols.