http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ View the entire NetApp Analyst Reports Library Wed, 23 May 2012 03:29:42 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-netapp-open-solution.html This ESG Lab report presents the results of hands-on testing of the NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, a highly reliable, ready to deploy, scalable storage solution for Enterprise Hadoop. Wed, 09 May 2012 08:36:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-netapp-open-solution.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-improving-vmware-storage.html This article explains how VMware users can improve storage IO performance in their virtual infrastructure using OnCommand Balance Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:36:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-improving-vmware-storage.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-idc-data-explosion-game-changing-storage.html NetApp has earned a worldwide reputation as a vendor that addresses the storage and data management requirements of HPC and other large-scale datacenters. The company has built a strong network of major OEMs that serve the HPC and high-end business analytics/business intelligence markets. The modular NetApp E-Series storage with new SANtricity 10.83 was designed from the start to provide improved building blocks for OEMs and extreme scalability for users. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:13:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-idc-data-explosion-game-changing-storage.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-storage-switzerland-oncommand-balance-spotlight.html This report from Storage Analyst firm, Storage Switzerland, explains how OnCommand Balance performance and capacity management software solution enables storage and VMware administrators to optimize resource usage and assure performance of critical VMs. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:36:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-storage-switzerland-oncommand-balance-spotlight.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-the-vmware-memory-balancing-act-storage-switzerland.html The ideal way to analyze memory utilization is to measure it over the course of important business hours, over a period of days or even months. It will require a software tool like NetApp's OnCommand Balance that can capture this information and provide an historical representation of memory utilization per virtual machine. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:36:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-the-vmware-memory-balancing-act-storage-switzerland.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-total-economic-impact.html NetApp commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and business case
justification for independent service providers to build and deliver storage-as-a-service (StaaS) to their customers using NetApp solutions. The purpose of this study is to give service providers a framework to evaluate the potential financial
impact on their businesses if they build their cloud service offering on the NetApp platform. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:36:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-total-economic-impact.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-primary-storage-systems-for-VMware.html This report presents the current state of the major storage system platforms in terms of their support for VMware and discusses relevant future trends. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:36:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-primary-storage-systems-for-VMware.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-storage-resource.html SRM and storage area network tools enable customers to manage shared
storage environments. These fully featured, integrated and user-friendly
tools are offered as solutions ranging from the holistic to the specialist, for
customers with a broad range of maturity levels and requirements. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:36:00 PDT http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-storage-resource.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-lab-validation-report.html This ESG Lab Validation Report provides documented details of ESG's hands-on evaluation and testing of the VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management on NetApp solution for on-demand cloud infrastructures. Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:13:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-esg-lab-validation-report.html http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-content-centric-applications.html The way in which businesses process, analyze and utilize information is changing, and with these changes comes an evolution in information technology. A new type of application is developing that in
conjunction with some existing, specialized usages requires storage systems with characteristics aligned with those applications. The Evaluator Group calls that type of application content centric where the
storage system works with the applications to exploit previously untapped information and business models. Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:36:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-content-centric-applications.html 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/gartner-vendor-rating.html Sustained growth, improved marketing and a go-to-market strategy have led to an uptake in customer adoption. Upcoming challenges and
opportunities for NetApp include enhanced competition from server and storage vendors, and the public launch of its fully functional clustering
storage offering. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:36:00 PST http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/gartner-vendor-rating.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/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