Key Points:
- Consolidate Windows file servers and reduce complexity with minimal to no disruption of service.
- Simplify manageability and reduce time to successful deployment of storage and storage services.
- Increase storage utilization and staff and end-user productivity.
- Speed up Windows file backup from hours to minutes to enable more frequent and less disruptive backups.
- Keep up with your Windows file growth while lowering your costs.
Need to simplify your Windows® file services environment? We can help. Reduce costs, improve efficiency, and provide better availability of your vital Windows files with our scalable, high-performance storage platforms and Data ONTAP® software.
Server sprawl in your environment can cost you time and money. If you're coping with file server sprawl, poor utilization of servers and storage, and time-consuming backups, our Windows File Services solution can help.
Achieve significant reductions in your costs and administrative overhead by consolidating your existing Windows file servers on our solution. With NetApp, you can:
- Simplify manageability with easy yet powerful solutions for management, backup and recovery, and data protection
- Improve productivity with better performance, scalability, and availability
- Lower costs with higher storage utilization and lower administrative overhead
- Unify storage with simultaneous support for Windows and UNIX file serving and SAN
Our solution integrates with your existing identification and authentication services, such as Active Directory, so you can consolidate with little effort. Migrate and manage your Windows files with Virtual File Manager with little to no disruption. And take advantage of a wide portfolio of certified solutions: antivirus, quota management, audit and logging, and more.
Read the solution brief, Forrester TEI case study and Oliver Wyman report (PDF) on how you can simplify your Windows File Services environment and reduce your total cost of ownership.
