1) As the ability to create data expands exponentially, our ability to analyze and convert it to information and knowledge becomes the primary barrier to progress. In fact, the data to cure cancer, unlock the Grand Unified Theory, untangle traffic congestion, and decode consumer behavior may already exist, waiting only to be connected or calculated. 2) MeriTalk surveyed 150 state and local IT professionals. The resulting State and Local Big Data Gap highlights the current data position for state and local agencies and outlines the gap between the big data opportunity and reality.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-meritalk-big-data-big-brains.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-meritalk-big-data-big-brains.pdfMay 13, 2013 1) As the ability to create data expands exponentially, our ability to analyze and convert it to information and knowledge becomes the primary barrier to progress. In fact, the data to cure cancer, unlock the Grand Unified Theory, untangle traffic congestion, and decode consumer behavior may already exist, waiting only to be connected or calculated. 2) MeriTalk surveyed 150 state and local IT professionals. The resulting State and Local Big Data Gap highlights the current data position for state and local agencies and outlines the gap between the big data opportunity and reality.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-meritalk-netapp-big-data-gap-report.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-meritalk-netapp-big-data-gap-report.pdfApril 24, 2013 This study highlights the benefits and costs of deploying the FlexPod platform across the enterprise of a composite organization. The findings in this study are in large part based on in-depth interviews conducted by Forrester with four organizations that have invested in and deployed NetApp's and Cisco's FlexPod platform. The study examines the estimated ROI for the composite organization and presents the aggregate findings derived from the interview and analysis process as well as from Forrester's independent research. http://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-flexpod-economic-impact.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-flexpod-economic-impact.pdfJanuary 15, 2013 In this Thought Leadership Paper, Forrester finds that companies lack clear understanding about private clouds and tend to underestimate the key components—storage among them—that are required to achieve maximum benefit from a cloud strategy. This analyst paper takes steps to clarify the private cloud concept and explain the importance of storage to successful cloud computing implementations.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-storage-architectures-en.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-storage-architectures-en.pdfJune 06, 2011 In this Thought Leadership Paper, Forrester finds that companies lack clear understanding about private clouds and tend to underestimate the key components—storage among them—that are required to achieve maximum benefit from a cloud strategy. This analyst paper takes steps to clarify the private cloud concept and explain the importance of storage to successful cloud computing implementations.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-storage-architectures.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-storage-architectures.pdfJune 01, 2011 This document provides a blueprint for private IaaS implementations on the Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center platform. This document is for customers and partner architects seeking to design private cloud implementations on the NetApp platform.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-microsoft-private-clouds.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/rp-microsoft-private-clouds.pdfMarch 01, 2011 Field failure data for 3 disk drive families from 3 drive manufacturers is analyzed. The analyses illustrate the effects of design and manufacturing process improvements implemented throughout the drive’s production life on the reliability of disk drives.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/2004RM-160.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/2004RM-160.pdfFebruary 23, 2008 Our study analyzes data collected from production storage systems over 32 months across 1.53 million disks (both nearline and enterprise class). We analyze factors that im- pact latent sector errors, observe trends, and explore their implications on the design of reliability mechanisms in storage systems.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/camready.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/camready.pdfJuly 12, 2007 Reliability analyses are performed on the field failure data of various drive families from different drive manufacturers to gain insight into the nature of the underlying failure mechanisms and their contribution to the overall failure rate of the disk drive.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/2005RM-177.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/2005RM-177.pdfJanuary 01, 2005 I will present other key customer benefits of moving from LUN management to centralized pool management, along with the benefits to the storage vendors. I will also suggest ways that vendors might consider for implementations with the minimum migration impact to both customers and existing products.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/Ditch_the_LUN_part_2.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/Ditch_the_LUN_part_2.pdfJuly 23, 2004 If the storage networking industry really wants to help the customers reduce the cost of storage management, the first thing they should do is remove the archaic notion of a LUN, and the ludicrous and petty management functional overhead that we invented to micro-manage this useless artifact.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/Ditch_the_LUN_part_1.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/Ditch_the_LUN_part_1.pdfJune 01, 2004 Actual disk drive reliability may differ greatly from the manufacturer’s specification and from customer to customer because of dependence on a variety of factors, some of which are completely independent of the drive design or manufacturing process.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/2004RM-153.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/2004RM-153.pdfJanuary 01, 2004 DAFS is a well-defined highperformance protocol for file access across a network as well as set of APIs, uDAFS, for user level OS-bypassing application programming, designed to take advantage of RDMA-based transports, such as Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA), InfiniBand Architecture[1], and iWARP.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/dafs-mpi-io.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/dafs-mpi-io.pdfSeptember 01, 2003 This paper will help the engineer understand the impact of some common approximations used in calculating availability.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/2003RM-179.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/2003RM-179.pdfFebruary 01, 2003 Disk drive failure data is analyzed to gain insight regarding two significant concerns. The first is whether drive reliability is highly dependent on the number of read/write heads in a disk drive. The second concern is whether the advances in design technology and manufacturing processes are progressing fast enough to counteract the potential reliability problems associated with consistently lowered head fly-height.http://www.netapp.com/us/media/NFSv3_Rev_3.pdfhttp://www.netapp.com/us/media/NFSv3_Rev_3.pdfJanuary 01, 2003