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NetApp MultiStore and SnapMover: Adding Business Value With Storage Consolidation, Data Availability, Security, and Load Balancing

NetApp MultiStore allows a filer's storage and networking resources to be partitioned into multiple virtual filers, each of which appears as an individual filer on the network. The dynamic, flexible nature of virtual filers simplifies UNIX and Windows storage consolidation, and offers unified access to data over both CIFS and...

Tags: Security, Storage Consolidation, Network, Load Balancing, NetApp, NetApp MultiStore, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-01-01

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Worldwide storage software revenue in Q2 2008

Vendor Q2 2008 Revenue Q2 2008 Market Share Q2 2007 Revenue Q2 2007 Market Share Growth, YTY 1. EMC $745 24.2% $685 25.4% 8.7% 2. Symantec $588 19.1% $464 17.2% 26.9% 3. IBM $409 13.3% $364 13.5% 12.3% 4. NetApp $239 7.8%...

Tags: Revenue, Vendor, Storage Software, Storage, Hardware, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-22

News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing Larry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai'; Aims to better compete with Intel AMD: Does the resurrection start...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Best Buy Co. Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Shanghai, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Is Sun open source storage play too late?

Is Sun open source storage play too late?Not related to the OS moveSun's loss of revenue and stock price has been coming for a long time. It has almost nothing to do with the open sourcing of Solaris and Java. Their income from those was minimal, anyway, and Solaris was...

Tags: Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., storage, Sun open source, open source

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

Zmanda launches open source backup, recovery solutions for Windows

Open source backup and recovery independent software developer ISV Zmanda formally announced two new products tailored for Windows users. Zmanda, of Sunnyvale, Calif. announced Zmanda Recovery Manager Enterprise Version 3.0 for MySQL and Zmanda Internet Backup ZIB. ZRM 3.0 is the first Windows edition...

Tags: MySQL, Recovery Solution, Microsoft Windows, Backups, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Can virtualization help when times get tough?

When times get tough, many organizations look for new ways to reduce costs while still being able to provide their customers with the products and services they need. This appears to be just such a time. Virtualization technology can most certainly be part of the solution. Let's review how each...

Tags: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Oracle Fires A Booming Shot Across The Bow Of The Storage Vendor Establishment

Yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the database giant's first foray into the hardware realm, unveiling the HP/Oracle Database Machine, branded as Exadata. The Exadata system is a combination of Oracle's 11g database engine using Automated Storage Management ASM to manage a grid of HP Proliant servers with 12 SATA...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Performance, Exadata System, Storage Server Grid, Larry, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Andrew Reichman

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Citrix aims high with XenServer 5, cloud center

As VMWorld moves into full swing, rival Citrix launched a major upgrade of its core XenServer and based upon it a cloud computing infrastructure for service providers. Both are available now. Citrix's XenServer 5, based upon the open source Xen hypervisor, adds more than 100 new features...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Business Services, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware: We have you surrounded

Microsoft and Novell had their first virtualization child Thursday. A joint virtualization effort that couples SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell operating with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The news itself isn't all that important--part of the Microsoft-Novell pact--dictated that SUSE would use the software giant's virtualization technology. But if you...

Tags: Novell Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-11

NetApp Speeds Decision Making by 300 Percent With Collaboration Solution

As NetApp, the maker of innovative storage management solutions, grew, so did the challenges of enabling its global workforce to find the information they need quickly and to collaborate effectively. The company replaced its decentralized information stores and lengthy e-mail exchanges with a comprehensive document management and collaboration solution based...

Tags: Collaboration, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., NetApp, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2008-09-01

Maybe I was wrong about Mac Servers

Maybe I was wrong about Mac ServersSo ZFS is the sole criteria for a quality server OS or not?Has data loss due the underlying file system really been the problem Robin and you are making it out to be?RE: Maybe I was wrong about Mac Serversye: Veritas VxFS indeed has...

Tags: Desktops, Servers, server, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Open Storage Adoption

Sun is leading the open storage revolution, combining open-source software with industry-standard system components to reduce storage costs by up to 90 percent. As a general term, open storage refers to storage systems built with an open architecture using industry-standard hardware and open-source software. In an open architecture, customers can...

Tags: Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-05-01

News to know: Dell; MinWin; Microsoft's Glasnost; Mozilla

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell: We'll save $3 billion; Cut 8,800 positions Ed Bott: Is MinWin really the new Windows 7 kernel? Jason Perlow: Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0. Dana Blankenhorn: If the birthmark fits, Microsoft will wear it ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Wireless LANs, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Microsoft's storage geeks speak

What do Microsoft storage heavies say when the suits let them off leash? Microsoft engineers at the ubergeek Usenix FAST 08 conference last month talked about Microsoft's storage intentions to a crowd of PhDs - and a stray storage blogger. Soft sell Understand that Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Citrix and NetApp Do the Virtualization Dance Together

I see that Citrix and NetApp have gotten together to provide a virtual processing/virtual storage solution. As I mentioned in the post The dynamic duo of virtual storage and virtual processing, virtual processing and virtual storage are powerful separately but, using them ought to be part of most organization's virtualized...

Tags: Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., NetApp, VMware Obviously, Storage, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Global storage software market in 2007

The full year 2007 results resembled those in the fourth quarter: EMC held the top market position with 25.8% revenue share, followed by Symantec and IBM with 17.7% and 13.9% revenue share, respectively. NetApp and HP rounded out the top 5 with 8.1% and 4.8% revenue share, respectively. ...

Tags: Revenue, Storage Software, NetApp, Operational Accounting, Storage, Finance, Hardware, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-30

Global storage software revenues in Q4 2007

EMC led the overall market with 26.0% revenue share in Q4 2007. Symantec took the second position with 17.9% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.5% revenue share. NetApp finished in the fourth position with 8.3% revenue share while HP rounded out the top 5 with...

Tags: Revenue, Storage, Storage Software, Operational Accounting, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Enabling Virtualized Grids With Oracle and NetApp

Oracle Grid architectures are absorbing new technologies and are continuing to evolve. The recent introduction of Oracle VM for advanced server virtualization, in combination with storage virtualization features of NetApp such as FlexVol, FlexClone, and FAS deduplication, make it possible to significantly increase server and storage utilization on Oracle Grids...

Tags: Oracle Corp., NetApplications.com, Grid, NetApp, Oracle Grid Architecture, Storage, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers

White papers 2008-03-01

Virginia Community College System Protects Services for 240,000 Users With NetApp's Technology

Established in 1966, the Virginia Community College System VCCS spans 23 community colleges on 40 campuses across the state. To ensure the highest availability of services, VCCS recently initiated a system-wide technology refresh that included setting up a new Disaster Recovery DR site. They wanted to ensure (24x7) availability of...

Tags: NetApp, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2008-03-01

Storage virtualization: Why aren't the big guys talking more about it?

Storage virtualization: Why aren't the big guys talking more about it?IBM's P-series virtualization in AIX 6You should have a good look at IBM AIX 6. Storage and network virtualization already exists with Virtual IO servers in the P5 series servers.Application level virtualization occurs in Workload Partitions WPARs. This...

Tags: Storage management, ROI/TCO, Utility computing, virtualization, storage, storage virtualization, SV product, ROI

Discussion threads 2008-02-25