Netapp
Store, manage, protect, and retain your data. Products and solutions that deliver efficiency savings and enable breakthrough business capabilities.
NetApp are a multi-award winning storage vendor, utilising common end-to-end unified storage architecture and a breadth of easy to deploy optional software, so much so that NetApp were voted Microsoft Storage Solutions 'Partner of the Year' 2009.
Key Strengths:
- True Unified Platform – NetApp systems can provide NAS (CIFS and NFS) & SAN (iscsi and Fbre Channel) on the same appliance at the same time, allowing complete consolidation of storage and maximum flexibility.
- ISCSI & FC SAN – Free and activated with every FAS2000 system
- Completely Scalable Solution – No forklift upgrades. Ability to grow from smallest to largest FAS system
- Inbuilt Data De-duplication as standard - Removes duplicate files so less storage used. Saves up to 95% capacity for full backups and 25-55% for most primary storage data sets
- Low customer total cost of ownership (TCO). Same operating system across the NetApp range, meaning no skills transfer as you grow. (Facebook, Yahoo, Oracle, BT etc all use the same technology as a FAS2000!)
- RAID DP (Double Parity) included as standard, allowing protection if two disks were to fail and offers excellent performance. Saves up to 46% capacity over mirrored data or Raid 10
- Flexshare prioritises workloads so business critical applications get priority
- Thin provisioning included as standard, allowing IT Managers to assign required storage the business needs and shrink or grow LUN’s on the fly , providing 20 -33% typical capacity savings as capacity expansion purchases can be postponed by more efficiently using the current installation
- Snapshots inclued as standard, offering one of the most efficient in the industry by avoiding “copy space” to help with local backup and deliver up to 80% capacity savings
- Snap Managers allow granular restore from snapshots of key applications.
- Flex Clone uses snapshot technology to enable instant provisioning, with minimum capacity usage for both virtual machines and database development.
- SnapVault allows snapshot based, ‘changed block replication’ to be used to create a backup archive vault on a second Netapp system.
Phormium are a NetApp Silver Partner, offering the FAS2000 series storage system range. NetApp FAS2000 systems provide a powerful range of technologies and features based on Data ONTAP to help increase storage utilization and the efficiency of your system and storage administrators.