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Open SAN market grew 17.2% in Q4 2007: In the Open SAN market, which grew 17.2% YOY, EMC lead with 24.3% revenue share, followed by IBM with 17.5%. The NAS market grew 10.5% year over year, led by EMC with 41.2% revenue share and followed by Network Appliance with 28.3% share. The iSCSI SAN market continues to show...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., SAN, EMC Corp., Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware, NB; Blog posts 2008-04-01
StoreVault With VMware Eradicates Corporate Development Systems' Storage Issues: As a business solutions provider, Corporate Development Systems (CDS) often tested a large number of different IT environments in-house before deploying these solutions to their customers. Testing scenarios demanded up to 12 physical servers, which were later replaced by a combination of 3 physical servers and virtual servers using VMware...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, Servers, Hardware; Case studies 2007-12-01
Making Green IT a Reality: Customer Perspectives on the Impact of Storage Vendor Decisions on Power, Cooling, & Space in Enterprise Data Centers: "Green IT" is a popular concept today, as data centers worldwide face rising costs for power, cooling, and space and companies strive to meet public demand for improved environmental stewardship. Many IT organizations, however, are just starting to understand the influence that their IT purchase decisions have on data center...; Tags: Data Center, Network Appliance Inc., Green IT, NetApp, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2007-12-01
Network Appliance: U.S. enterprise spending on the wane: Network Appliance, a leading network attached storage company, says U.S. enterprise spending among its top 22 largest commercial accounts is waning. However, the company is navigating the slowdown well. The company reported its second quarter results on Wednesday and they were solid. The company reported net income of $83.8...; Tags: Federal Government, Network Appliance Inc., Financial Service, Texas Instruments Inc., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-11-15
Whitnall School District Goes Virtual With StoreVault to Deal With High Investment in Infrastructure: The Whitnall School District (WSD) is a consortium of educational institutions, based in Village of Hales Corners that is partly in Franklin city and partly in Greenfield. Storage needs kept expanding as backup data had to be retained for 7 years, instead of the previous 4 year time period. Virtual...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Investment, VMWare ESX Server, NetApp, Whitnall School District, Storage, Servers, Hardware; Case studies 2007-11-01

A Comparison of EMC CLARiiON and the Network Appliance FAS Array: A Detailed Review: The CLARiiON line of storage systems from EMC and the Network Appliance FAS series are both positioned as shared storage platforms for customers interested in Fibre Channel and iSCSI solutions. Network Appliance positions FAS as a general purpose storage system to satisfy a wide range of application needs. Even the...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., EMC Clariion, EMC Corp., Storage System, Storage, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-10-01
NetApp claims Sun's ZFS violates its patents: Sun has been touting the ZFS storage software as a key advantage of its Solaris 10 operating system. Network Appliance is alleging that ZFS violates seven of its patents, and is seeking a permanent injunction that would prevent Sun from shipment or further development of the software, which has also...; Tags: Patent, Network Appliance Inc., Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetApp, ZFS Storage Software, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-05
NetApp claims Sun's ZFS violates its patents: NetApp claims Sun's ZFS violates its patentsMr. Hitz appears to be a real gentleman.If this is not MS style hype then Mr. Hitz' position is admirable.His concern for the customers of both companies should serve asan example to many (SCO, MicroSoft, and Apple come to mind).Nice to see a company...; Tags: Storage, Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, file system, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-09-05
SAP on UNIX and Oracle With FCP and Network Appliance Storage: Best Practices: This paper is intended to provide customers and partners with the best practices for deploying Network Appliance storage systems in support of mySAP Business Suite solutions running in a UNIX and FCP environment using an Oracle Database. Primary consideration is given to addressing the common storage infrastructure design, operation, and...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Best Practice, Consideration, Unix, NetApp, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-07-01
ZFS Best Practices With NetApp: Guidelines for Configuring the ZFS File System With Network Appliance Storage Arrays: This paper contains best practices and guidelines for configuring the new ZFS file system with Network Appliance storage systems. The Solaris ZFS file system is a new file system that fundamentally changes the way file systems are administered, with new features and benefits. ZFS has been designed to be robust,...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., File System, Best Practice, NetApp, Solaris ZFS File System, ZFS, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-06-01
IT spending: March 'air pocket' or something worse?: Network Appliance (NTAP) reported strong fiscal 2007 results, but cut its first quarter outlook due to a technology slowdown in March. Network Appliance, which sells storage gear, called March an "air pocket" and said business rebounded in April. However, officials declined to forecast the IT spending prognosis for May and...; Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Storage; Blog posts 2007-05-24
Reducing data centre power consumption through efficient storage: This whitepaper outlines how businesses can reduce power consumption by subtracting machines and disks from the power equation by using storage more efficiently. NetApp's approach to this lowers people costs, lowers support and service costs and improves network efficiency and performance.; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Power Consumption, NetApp, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-05-18
Setting Up IBM HACMP Cluster on AIX With NetApp Storage (NFS) for High Availability: More and more Network Appliance customers recognize the value of High Availability in their mission- and business-critical applications. IBM provides a host clustering software, known as High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP), which minimizes downtime by quickly restoring services when a system, component, or application fails. This paper discusses installation and...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Network File System, IBM AIX, High Availability, NetApp, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-05-01
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Best Practices Guide: Corporate messaging has become mission critical in nearly all organizations. Along with this critical importance come additional constraints for information technology organizations. Not only do they have to deal with requests for increased user mailbox sizes and additional users, they need to ensure high availability for their messaging infrastructure while...; Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Network Appliance Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, NetApp, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-05-01
Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Utilizing Network Appliance Storage Solutions: Large, hosted Exchange Server messaging environments require high-performance system architectures in order to meet or exceed customer performance SLAs. Effectively controlling cost is also an important factor in building and maintaining large messaging server configurations that are typical in hosted messaging environments. This technical report describes a "proof of concept"...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, High-performance, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-05-01
Deployment Guide: Implementing FileNet Image Services on AIX Platform With Network Appliance Storage Systems: This paper discusses high-level information on deploying IBM's FileNet Image Server product by integrating Network Appliance storage system solutions in UNIX environments. This paper specifically discusses Oracle Database server. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the prerequisites and general steps required to deploy FileNet Image...; Tags: FileNet Corp., Network Appliance Inc., Environment, IBM AIX, Storage System, NetApp, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-04-01
Rapid Database Development and Deployment: This paper explores how Network Appliance (NetApp) solutions dramatically reduce the time, resources, and effort required supporting database development and deployment. NetApp provides easy-touse solutions that allow rapid and cost-effective database cloning and deployment in support of application development, testing, Quality Assurance (QA), maintenance, and migration equally across all storage...; Tags: Database, Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware; White papers 2007-03-01
HP-UX 64-Bit NFS Performance With Netapp Storage Using an Oracle10g Database: This paper provides the performance-tuning recommendations for running Oracle Databases over NFS on Network Appliance storage systems in an HP-UX 11i v2 environment. A series of tests using an OnLine Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload and an Oracle 10.2 database were run to determine how various tuning settings affected NFS performance.; Tags: HP-UX, Network Appliance Inc., Network File System, Performance, OLTP, NetApp, Storage, Performance Management, Databases, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-03-01
Reduce It Cost and Complexity: Enable Business Agility With Grid Computing: Information Technology (IT) executives are faced with contradictory challenges. They need to increase the business value of IT with solutions that provide high application availability, efficient resource utilization, and improved business flexibility while simultaneously reducing costs. Companies have used various methods to achieve an optimal balance of these needs. However;...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Grid Computing, NetApp, Storage, Utility Computing, It Management, Hardware, It service Management; White papers 2007-03-01
Best Practices for VMware ESX Server 3.0 Backup on NetApp: The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent process that takes advantage of snapshot-based backups. The decision to use RDMs instead of vmdk (VM file system) was based on the desire for file-level restore capability. With either topology, it is possible to mount the backup copy as...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Best Practice, NetApp, VMWare ESX, Backups, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-03-01