Eliminate the complexity and data bottlenecks in heterogeneous environments to improve collaboration. Build a multiprotocol environment that performs for all your developers.
You probably have developers who use a variety of desktop platforms, while your software configuration management (SCM) system typically runs on UNIX® or Linux® servers. Your need to support a mix of UNIX, Windows®, and Linux clients might also be driven by a requirement for your software to be built and tested for a variety of operating environments.
To support different client platforms, you might be using protocol emulation products such as SAMBA, NFS Maestro, or PC-NFS, which increase complexity and maintenance overhead. And, by introducing another layer of software into the data path, these emulation products might also significantly decrease performance, slowing the flow of critical data to developers and reducing productivity.
NetApp® unified storage can simplify complex, heterogeneous environments. Unlike other storage systems, NetApp systems support all the common NAS and SAN protocols from a single platform, so all your clients can access storage directly. Windows network clients access network storage by using CIFS, while Linux and UNIX clients use NFS to access the same files. You no longer need emulation products such as SAMBA or PC-NFS to allow different platforms to share network files, so management of client systems is simpler, and performance is improved.
Because the same storage system can also support a Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN in addition to NAS protocols, your overall environment is simple and fast. For example, your SCM system can access I/O-intensive metadata (database) by using a SAN, while your data repository (version, archive, or source files) and user workspaces are stored in volumes accessible by CIFS and NFS-all on the same storage system. Because NetApp storage is flexible, you need fewer storage systems, and you get more from each system deployed.
NetApp unified storage eliminates the complexity and data bottlenecks in heterogeneous environments to improve collaboration between developers while saving the capital and management costs that result from maintaining multiple separate storage environments.
