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Customers Protect and Accelerate Their Businesses With NetApp(R) SnapMirror(R) Thin Replication
| Source: NetApp, Inc.
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - September 22, 2009) - NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ : NTAP ) today announced
it has added native network compression to SnapMirror® thin replication,
making it even more efficient in lowering customers' total cost of
ownership. With SnapMirror, customers can now improve network bandwidth
efficiency up to 70%* to existing storage and network efficiencies achieved
with SAN thin replication. With this improvement, available today,
SnapMirror provides more benefits than ever to an install base that is
already more than 65,000 licenses.
SnapMirror not only backs up and protects customers' data in the event of a
disaster but can also replicate data in production environments to help
customers make decisions faster and get better returns on infrastructure
investments. Thin replication can efficiently replicate production data
and, with FlexClone® copies, provide multiple, instant copies for
disaster recovery, decision support, business intelligence analysis, or to
support a development and test environment -- all with minimal overhead. As
a result of these wide range of benefits customers can buy less storage and
reduce their overall power, space, and cooling costs in their data centers.
"SnapMirror is the backbone of our disaster recovery plan, and we rely on
it and trust it to protect our critical customer financial data," said Adam
Clifton, senior systems administrator at North American Banking Company.
"Not only has SnapMirror provided the data protection we need, but we have
also been able to leverage its network compression capability to realize
benefits across our network. We've been able to increase existing bandwidth
utilization by 66% using SnapMirror's compression capability, saving an
estimated $10,000."
SnapMirror has also been tested with leading applications and databases to
meet customers' business needs. For instance, SnapMirror network
compression can reduce bandwidth requirements for Microsoft Exchange by
33%, Microsoft Home Directory by 63%, and Oracle Database by 72%.*
"With SnapMirror replicated data on our secondary site, we can
instantaneously create as many FlexClone copies for various uses such as
testing and quality assurance with zero impact on our production systems
and application services," said Matt Lawson, director of enterprise
services, at Virginia Community College Systems.
"Customers have demonstrated that SnapMirror has been extremely successful
as a disaster recovery tool," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of
Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "Today, it is much more than that. It has
evolved into a multi-purpose tool for our customers to reduce their
bandwidth and storage needs -- all to help them reduce costs and accelerate
their business."
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*Based on NetApp testing