Education Solutions

NetApp is committed to delivering the most efficient, cost-effective storage and data management solutions to meet your critical infrastructure needs. Our solutions cut IT costs in half, use up to 80% less storage than competitors, and accelerate projects and programs by enabling storage administrators to deploy entire infrastructures in minutes instead of weeks—without sacrificing performance or availability.

The Challenge

As educational institutions continue to face tight budgets with ever-increasing mandates, managing growing data stores and meeting aggressive service level agreements becomes more and more challenging. Continually purchasing new storage systems and hiring the IT staff to manage the growing infrastructure is usually not in the budget. On the other hand, compromising performance and availability by making do with existing resources can have disastrous results.

Reduce TCO

Slash storage costs
Reducing costs starts with buying less storage. With NetApp, you can reduce storage requirements by as much as 80% and cut the number of systems in your data center by 50% to 75%. The need to expand your data center can be deferred by years. When you do need to purchase more disks, you’ll buy 2-3 times fewer disks. Of course, less storage means reduced power, cooling, and space costs. You can meet green initiatives while saving money.

Lower administrative costs
With NetApp, administrators can manage more data more efficiently—without any additional headcount. Because NetApp offers a truly unified storage infrastructure, the same software, hardware, people, and processes are used across the storage infrastructure, on NetApp and non NetApp storage. With our Data ONTAP storage operating system, administrators have one application interface and one set of management tools for the entire storage infrastructure, helping reduce administrative costs. IT staff trains once and then leverages that knowledge across the infrastructure. In addition, automation of routine tasks frees administrators to focus on more strategic tasks.

Protect Student and Research Data

Protect against unauthorized access
A security breach can compromise personal student information and years of research data. To help keep these critical data assets secure, NetApp systems offer robust encryption, authentication, access controls, and logging capabilities—all built into our Data ONTAP operating system.

Enable Service Continuity

Keep vital student and research services up and running
Downtime can bring your entire institution to a halt. A 2008 IDC study proved NetApp storage systems achieve greater than 99.999% availability in field-measured uptime. But simply making data available is of little value if the data isn’t protected. With Data ONTAP, you can back up data in minutes and recover in seconds.

Easily scale to support unpredictable growth
Research data can grow at unpredictable rates. With NetApp thin provisioning you can grow and shrink storage volumes to meet the exact needs for every department or application—without disrupting operations. The days of overprovisioning and wasted storage space are over.

Be prepared for the unexpected
In the event of failure or disaster, you can rest assured that your NetApp systems will remain up and running. High-availability, disaster recovery, backup, and compliance services are all built into a single storage platform and available on demand. You can quickly roll out new services or adjust the level of coverage needed as recovery and compliance objectives change.

Partner with an Industry Leader

When you partner with our Professional Services and Global Support teams, you gain access to our extensive storage security expertise, innovative technologies, and best practices. Our team works in partnership with you to solve your information security challenges so you can accelerate the return on your infrastructure investments and get the most business benefit from them.

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