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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
- Top Law Firm Relies on Storage From Network Appliance and 3PAR
- One the top law firms in the United States represents clients in high-stakes litigation, complex financing and regulatory matters, government affairs, and corporate and technology transactions. With data growing about 30% annually, storage was increasingly complicated to manage. So the customer looked into storage solutions that would allow them to...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Law Firm, 3PARData Inc., NetApp, Storage, Litigation, Hardware, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- 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
- 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
- Network Appliance and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices
- Network Appliance technology enables companies to extend their virtual infrastructures to include advanced virtualized storage alongside their virtual servers. NetApp provides industry-leading solutions in the areas of data protection; ease of provisioning; thin storage provisioning; file-based backups; instantaneous Virtual Machine VM backup and restores; instantaneous VM cloning for testing, application...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, 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, 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, Storage Array, 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
- 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, Instant Messaging, E-mail Servers, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, 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
- Network Appliance Technical Case Study: Using a NetApp SAN with VMware to Facilitate Storage and Server Consolidation
- This technical study reviews how the combination of VMware software and NetApp storage solutions provide significant advantages for companies consolidating servers and storage to reduce costs and increase operational efficiency. VMware allows companies to reduce server counts by 50% or more without major application changes, while making...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Server Consolidation, SAN, Server, VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Using a Network Appliance SAN With VMware Infrastructure 3 to Facilitate Server and Storage Consolidation
- Many companies are experiencing a rapid proliferation of commodity Intel and AMD x86 servers. These systems are typically equipped with a small amount of internal or direct-attached disk storage. As server numbers grow into the hundreds, the management complexity for both servers and storage increases exponentially, putting a strain on...
- Tags: Storage Consolidation, Network Appliance Inc., SAN, Server, VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Using Network Appliance Storage Systems With IBM-Rational Clearcase
- This paper describes the recommended policies and procedures for using Network-Attached Storage NAS devices from Network Appliance, known as storage systems, in a ClearCase environment. This discussion applies to all environments using Data ONTAP v6.0 and Data ONTAP 7G and IBM-Rational ClearCase v4.1 or later. The topics discussed in this...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Rational ClearCase, Storage System, IBM Corp., Development Tools, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Implementing Symantec Enterprise Vault With Network Appliance SnapLock
- The enterprise customer's non-structured data is growing rapidly. This critical intellectual property includes enterprise messaging (primarily e-mail) and distributed file systems. As the volume of enterprise messaging system data and other unstructured data grows, it is clear that nowadays enterprises need a structured approach to protect the data. Increased acceptance...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Network Appliance Inc., Environment, File System, Enterprise Customer, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Integration Guide: Implementing Symantec Enterprise Vault With Network Appliance Storage Systems
- As the volume of e-mail and other unstructured data skyrockets, it has become increasingly clear that today's enterprises need a structured approach to archival. The combination of Symantec Enterprise Vault with Network Appliance storage systems provides enterprises the capability to archive and protect both business-critical e-mail and unstructured file system...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Network Appliance Inc., Environment, Storage System, NetApp, Integration, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Integration Guide: Implementing FileNet P8 Content Manager With Network Appliance Storage Systems
- Content and business processes have caused significant growth of unstructured data in an enterprise environment. Today's enterprises require a structured approach to manage the content and business processes effectively. The joint solution of FileNet P8 platform and Network Appliance storage systems provides enterprises the capability to archive and protect both...
- Tags: Business Process, FileNet Corp., Network Appliance Inc., Environment, Storage System, NetApp, Integration, Operational Planning, Storage, Business Operations, Hardware
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 Building a Virtual Infrastructure From Server to Storage
- This technical report discusses the virtual storage solutions that reduce cost, increase storage utilization, increase fault tolerance, and address the challenges of backing up and restoring VMware ESX Server environments by using Network Appliance technology.
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Server, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, NetApp, VMWare ESX, Storage, Ip storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-01
- The Skinny on ITIL
- ITIL the Information Technology Infrastructure Library is, after all, a collection of best practices first developed by the British government almost 20 years ago. But ITIL is rapidly gaining ground as an IT governance model in U.S. businesses. The author explains how Network Appliance might also benefit from adopting ITIL,...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Information Technology, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-03-23
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