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(EMAILWIRE.COM, April 01, 2008 ) HONG KONG – NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) has announced new products and capabilities as part of the NetApp Manageability Software Family to enable customers to transform their data centre architectures.
The announcement is driven by NetApp storage innovations for virtualised servers that will help customers improve their IT infrastructure and processes. Enterprise customers are undergoing significant data centre transformations to enhance IT flexibility and efficiency as server virtualisation moves into broader deployment. To enable this transformation, NetApp is providing customers a proven storage platform for virtualised environments to achieve increased service levels, higher asset utilization, and greater data centre power, space and cooling efficiencies.
"NetApp will be a major catalyst in enabling customers to capitalise on the next generation of data centre infrastructure," said George Or, general manager of NetApp Greater China. "We have established a lead in delivering virtualisation solutions and services that help customers transform their current IT architectures and amplify the impact that IT operations have on their business. Combining VMware's full data centre virtualisation solutions with NetApp's networked storage solutions is dramatically improving data management and providing customers a path to creating a transparent infrastructure."
"Our research indicates that IT departments are continually challenged to do more with less, making it increasingly difficult to manage infrastructure complexity while at the same time meet service level agreements and increase staff productivity," said Roger Cox, research vice president of Gartner. "Customers are looking for an architectural approach that will deliver near instant response to business unit requests, automate the most labor intensive tasks and scale infrastructure transparently over time."
The new announcement further strengthens NetApp's unified data management platform with the following new innovative software solutions to drive customers' data centre transformation:
- SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure – SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure enables customers to protect their VMware environments with automated data protection and recovery of their virtual machines.
SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure dramatically reduces human error and increases server utilisation for application workloads by eliminating the interruptions and performance impact caused by traditional server-hosted backups and restores. As a result, customers can protect their data more reliably. More information is available at www.netapp.com/products/enterprise-software/manageability-software/server-suite/smgr-virtual-infrastructure.html.
- SnapManager Compatibility with VMware Virtualisation Software – all Windows-based SnapManager products are now compatible with VMware virtualisation software, providing customers the ability to manage data within virtual machines and take full advantage of the application-specific data management capabilities provided by NetApp's SnapManager products.
Versions are available for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and Oracle. By extending SnapManager capabilities to virtual infrastructures, customers now have common data management tools for both their virtualised and physical server environments. These innovative products will also help accelerate deployment of existing Windows applications into new virtual server environments.
- Provisioning Manager – Provisioning Manager provides policy-based automation to speed up existing provisioning processes, improve capacity utilisation, and reduce human error that results in data loss. As a result, storage administrators can eliminate the complex series of manual steps normally associated with provisioning storage in both virtual and physical server environments.
This simplifies training for IT staff and liberates these valuable personnel to work on more strategic IT priorities. For more details, visit www.netapp.com/products/enterprise-software/
manageability-software/data-suite/provisioning.html.
"Virtualisation is helping thousands of enterprises reduce complexity and improve management of their data centres," said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances at VMware. "NetApp's new SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure leverages VMware virtualisation for improved management and automation, including virtual machine backup, restoration, replication and disaster recovery. Together, VMware and NetApp are helping customers transform their IT infrastructures and increase productivity to better respond to their changing business needs."
Significant enhancements to NetApp's Protection Manager provide seamless protection of virtualised environments. In addition, updates to NetApp's Data ONTAP operating system extend deduplication benefits to customers with NetApp V-Series and MultiStore systems. Furthermore, Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent, which conforms to the SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), is now available to support the entire line of NetApp FAS systems and NetApp V-Series virtualised storage systems. These enhancements extend customers' ability to meet increasingly diverse storage and data management requirements with a single, familiar, easy-to-use data management platform.
NetApp improves storage efficiency in virtualised environments NetApp's high-performance storage solutions were specifically developed to transform data centre technology into a competitive business advantage. As a result, many NetApp customers are realising significant storage efficiency savings as part of their data centre transformation.
In a recent study by Oliver Wyman, Making Green IT a Reality: Customer Perspectives on the Impact of Storage Vendor Decisions on Power, Cooling, & Space in Enterprise Data Centers (www.netapp.com/library/ar/ar1054.pdf),
customers using NetApp, EMC CLARiiON and HP EVA systems concluded that innovative NetApp technologies such as deduplication, thin provisioning, RAID-DP, FlexVol and Snapshot dramatically reduce the amount of power, cooling and space needed in their data centres. Customers found that NetApp requires 50 per cent less raw storage and rack space and uses 51 per cent less power and heat load per usable terabyte. New virtualisation professional services In addition to the product news, NetApp has announced the following new virtualisation professional services to accelerate customers' data centre
transformation:
- Virtualisation Assessment – provides customers with guidance on how to start benefiting from a virtualised platform.
- Virtualisation Architecture Planning – helps customers design the most efficient server and storage infrastructure for their unique environment and business needs.
- Server & Storage Virtualisation Services – guides customers as they build the optimal server platform based on VMware virtualisation software and a set of turnkey service offerings.
NetApp Authorised Professional Service Partner Programme NetApp is also strengthening its commitment to help channel partners provide the highest levels of quality and consistency with a new Authorised Professional Service Partner Programme. With this programme, partners now have the ability to sell and deliver their own brand of professional services for NetApp solutions utilising NetApp best practices, tools and methodologies, comprehensive training, and implementation backup support.
Partners in this programme will be uniquely positioned to serve as trusted advisors for a complete solution set and deliver maximum value to NetApp customers.
All customer pricing for products described in this press release is available from NetApp sales or reseller partners. SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure, Provisioning Manager, Protection Manager, and Data ONTAP
7.3 are expected to be available in spring 2008. New virtualisation services and the Authorised Professional Service Partner Program are available immediately.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help you accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at NetApp.com.
Issued on behalf of NetApp by EBA Communications
For further information please contact:
Emma Jenkins/ Andy Wong (EBA): (852) 2537 8022 Email:Emma.Jenkins@ebacomms.com/andy.wong@ebacomms.com
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NetApp
Emma Jenkins
(852) 2537 8022
Emma.Jenkins@ebacomms.com 
Source: EmailWire.com
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