http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ View the entire NetApp Analyst Reports Library Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:08:20 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-evaluator-group-netapp-open-solution.html An overview of NetApp’s Open Solution for Hadoop. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:36:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-evaluator-group-netapp-open-solution.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-architecting-storage-internal-cloud.html 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. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:00:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-architecting-storage-internal-cloud.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-demarket-netapp-multi-protocol.html 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. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:36:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-demarket-netapp-multi-protocol.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-forrester-report-total-economic-impact-of-netapp-storage-for-vdi.html 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. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:36:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-forrester-report-total-economic-impact-of-netapp-storage-for-vdi.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-Enabling-Storage-Automation-Cloud-Computing.html 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. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:36:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-Enabling-Storage-Automation-Cloud-Computing.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-forrester-tei-jan2012.html 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. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:36:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-forrester-tei-jan2012.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-lab-validation-netapp-fas2240.html 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. Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:36:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-lab-validation-netapp-fas2240.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-netapp-snaplock-compliance.html Technical/compliance assessment of NetApp SnapLock and whether it meets the requirements and conditions of SEC Rule 17a-4(f) Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:36:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-netapp-snaplock-compliance.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-the-future-of-backup.html 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. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:00:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-the-future-of-backup.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-gartner-magic-quadrant-midrange.html 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. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:00:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-gartner-magic-quadrant-midrange.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-netapp-Oncommand-insight.html Server and application mobility in virtualization and cloud environments creates interdependencies that can be quite complex and opaque. Analytics tools are becoming a requirement to correlate the interdependencies between applications, virtual machines, physical servers, and storage. ESG Labs validated OnCommand Insight with advanced analytics to show how it provides performance, capacity, and configuration management for virtualization and cloud environments. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:36:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-netapp-Oncommand-insight.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/netapp-Oncommand-insight.html Server and application mobility in virtualization and cloud environments creates interdependencies that can be quite complex and opaque. Analytics tools are becoming a requirement to correlate the interdependencies between applications, virtual machines, physical servers, and storage. ESG Labs validated OnCommand Insight with advanced analytics to show how it provides performance, capacity, and configuration management for virtualization and cloud environments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:45:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/netapp-Oncommand-insight.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-lab-validation-report.html This ESG Lab Validation analyzes the operational efficiency of NetApp FAS and V-Series data storage systems in real-world, mission-critical, enterprise e-mail environments to validate the tangible business value offered by NetApp in enterprises utilizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:45:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-lab-validation-report.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-brief-next-generation-storage.html “Next generation storage” used to refer to scale-out storage systems. Now that we’re seeing a broad transition to such systems, it begs the question: what’s the next, next generation storage system? What types of systems will be required to enable widespread server virtualization and always-on availability to support cloud services? These systems will need a robust feature/function set that includes functions such a snapshot and remote replication as well as shared services support features like secure multi-tenancy, all done at massive scale and across all protocols. These systems will have intelligent hardware, but need to be tightly governed and policy-driven by a robust software layer. This is no small task, but NetApp is marching down a path to do just that. Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:45:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-brief-next-generation-storage.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-data-ontap.html The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate IT professionals about emerging technologies and products in the storage, data management and information security industries. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the evaluation process that should be conducted before making purchasing decisions, but rather to provide insight into these emerging technologies. Our objective is to go over some of the more valuable feature/functions of products, show how they can be used to solve real customer problems and identify any areas needing improvement. ESG Lab's expert third-party perspective is based on our own hands-on testing as well as on interviews with customers who use these products in production environments. This ESG Lab report was sponsored by NetApp. Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:45:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-data-ontap.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-midrange-storage-q32011.html To achieve cloud flexibility and economics, the storage architectures in place needed to change. This document will walk you through the drivers shaping the midrange storage market, the 10 criteria that I&O teams should focus on when selecting a solution, and a summary of the top 11 solutions in the space. NetApp is the only vendor listed meeting all criteria. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:45:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-midrange-storage-q32011.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-economic-impact-analysis.html This Forrester TEI study highlights the costs and benefits of deploying NetApp OnCommand Management software as part of a NetApp private cloud solution. Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:45:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-economic-impact-analysis.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-gartner-report-bon-tr.html New realities are emerging in IT, creating an environment with three primary imperatives for business: innovate and grow, optimize cost and value, and manage risk. In this new environment, IT governance must shift from IT spend to business-centric investment and execution. Understanding the changes that are creating these new imperatives are key to thriving in the “new normal” environment. Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:45:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-gartner-report-bon-tr.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-idc.html Faced with explosive growth in revenue, employees, and data, a specialty property and casualty insurer turned to a NetApp solution to create a more robust, flexible, and cost-effective storage infrastructure.
With the NetApp unified solution, the insurer has improved storage performance and data protection while simplifying storage management and disaster recovery operations. The benefits from the deployment, including cost savings, higher revenue, and increased IT staff and end-user productivity, have amounted to an average of more than $1 million annually, resulting in a five-year return on investment (ROI) of 428% and a payback period of three months. Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:45:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-idc.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-planning-guide-builton.html In 2011, data centers will begin their second transformation in five years, from virtualized, consolidated, and centralized IT infrastructure to a service-oriented, economically efficient set of IT capabilities. The new data center will enable business units to consume IT as a service, host critical apps and data, and augment capacity using the external cloud. This transformation is the result of pressure external cloud computing exacts on IT organizations to compete with cloud providers and the desire to support a growing and increasingly complex remote and mobile workforce. In this data center Planning Guide, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst Drue Reeves will explore the technology innovations and IT trends that enable IT organizations to build internal private clouds, virtualize the desktop, bridge to external clouds, and increase data center resiliency while reducing capital and operational costs. Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:45:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-planning-guide-builton.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-accelerating-converged-infrastructure.html IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:36:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-accelerating-converged-infrastructure.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-netapp-modernizes-backup.html NetApp has stepped up efforts to deliver a more comprehensive data protection solution for NetApp and non-NetApp storage environments. The company extended its capabilities via partnerships with Syncsort and CommVault, augmenting its base data protection features to meet current and prospective customer requirements. Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:00:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-netapp-modernizes-backup.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-netapp-and-fujitsu-team-to-provide-a-proven-best-of-breed-cloud-infrastructure.html While many vendors are just rolling out integrated computing solutions targeted at allowing enterprises or service providers to build a robust cloud foundation, NetApp and Fujitsu have been partnering for years to offer these types of solutions. Together, they offer a best-of-breed integrated platform with an integrated management, automation, and orchestration stack and a solution set that spans edge-to-core requirements. Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:00:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-netapp-and-fujitsu-team-to-provide-a-proven-best-of-breed-cloud-infrastructure.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-storage-choices-for-virtual-server-environments.html Forrester Virtual Server Environments Survey –User preference for NetApp growing as leading platform for virtualization. Tue, 31 May 2011 08:00:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-storage-choices-for-virtual-server-environments.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-taneja-group-san-efficiency.html In this Technology Validation exercise, Taneja Group set out to take a look at the NetApp FAS family of storage, to explore what capabilities make up the NetApp SAN efficiency story, and examine how (and whether) they are set apart in the industry. Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:00:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-taneja-group-san-efficiency.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-magic-quadrant-for-midrange.html NetApp is positioned as a leader in Gartner's Mary 2011 Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-end NAS Solutions. Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:00:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-magic-quadrant-for-midrange.html