SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - August 25, 2009) - To empower customers who are rapidly changing
the way their data centers are designed and shifting to a model of IT
delivered as a service (ITaaS), NetApp (
NASDAQ:
NTAP) today unveiled Data
ONTAP® 8 along with other new technologies and solutions that will serve
as the cloud infrastructure foundation for today and tomorrow.
"Today's announcements truly usher in a new era and way of doing business
for NetApp," said Tom Georgens, president and chief executive officer,
NetApp. "Customer dynamics are changing in the face of increased economic
pressures as IT executives are tasked with doing more with less. As a
result, the makeup of the data center is drastically changing as companies
choose to take advantage of applications, infrastructure, and platforms
delivered in the form of services. NetApp is primed to take advantage of
this major shift in the market by providing enterprises with not only the
industry-leading storage and data management solutions that are ideal for
the cloud, but, more importantly, also serve as the technology partner of
choice to guide enterprises on their journey in deploying a cloud
infrastructure."
Enterprise customers, global systems integrators, and service providers are
already leveraging existing Data ONTAP platforms as the foundation for a
wide range of their internal and external cloud deployments. Data ONTAP 8
will build upon these proven cloud capabilities with enhanced functionality
for virtualized and shared infrastructure environments, including
nondisruptive data mobility, dynamic growth through a scale-out
architecture, and 64-bit storage aggregates to support multipetabyte
deployments. Data ONTAP 8 will also provide customers with improved data
management capabilities and tighter integration with data center
orchestration and management systems, enabling the storage, server,
networking, and application layers to interface with one another. The Data
ONTAP 8 family combines Data ONTAP 7G and Data ONTAP GX under a single code
base in a phased approach that will allow customers to leverage the
combined scale-up and scale-out capabilities.
With the addition of these new innovative and enhanced capabilities, Data
ONTAP 8 provides customers with a platform that meets their stringent cloud
requirements and addresses their challenges in deploying a cloud storage
infrastructure, including:
- Secure Multi-Tenancy -- Customers can deploy a shared,
cost-effective infrastructure across separate user groups or enterprise
customers with NetApp's proven technology called MultiStore®.
- Transparent Data Motion -- Customers can achieve nondisruptive
data access during mandatory shutdowns or upgrades and respond quickly and
transparently within a single-site or across multi-site distributed
deployments.
- Service Automation -- Customers can leverage a comprehensive
set of role-based data management and monitoring tools to meter usage and
enable a charge-back model, significantly reducing operational costs and
improving service response time.
- Storage Efficiency -- Customers can improve ROI for raw storage
purchases and reduce data center space, power, and cooling.
- Integrated Data Protection -- Customers can deploy built-in
backup/recovery and business continuity capabilities, which are a necessity
for shared infrastructures that must always be on.
"While Data ONTAP provides a wide range of enterprises with storage
solutions that fuel their cloud infrastructures, Data ONTAP 8 will take it
to the next level by providing enhanced scalability, performance,
efficiencies, and other features that are key to the cloud," said Terri
McClure, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Combine this technology
foundation with its impressive lineup of cloud enablement partners and
NetApp has clearly strengthened its position as a true cloud storage
infrastructure provider."
New Products, Solutions, and Services Empower the Cloud
The following new NetApp® products, solutions, and services address
customers' critical cloud requirements for a more efficient and flexible
cloud infrastructure:
- NetApp Data Motion™ -- NetApp's new data motion technology
allows enterprises to move data nondisruptively across storage systems with
zero application downtime. Now customers can eliminate the impact of
planned maintenance outages in virtualized multi-tenant environments.
NetApp Data Motion is the first solution of its kind in the storage
industry and builds upon the NetApp unified storage architecture to greatly
enhance availability for both internal and external cloud
customers.
- Performance Acceleration Module II -- The second-generation
Performance Acceleration Module, a family of flash technology-based caching
modules, provides an innovative, alternative use of flash/SSD technology
rather than using SSDs in disk shelves. Customers can cost-effectively
improve performance across a broader set of workloads without straining
their existing infrastructure. Tests conducted by
NetApp with an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload show that
customers can cost-effectively increase I/O throughput by approximately 78%
and speed response time by approximately 30%. These gains were achieved
using less than 1% more power and no additional rack space.
- NetApp Dynamic Data Center (NDDC) Solution -- The NetApp
dynamic data center solution is comprised of three components to provide
customers with a proven and tested solution for delivering ITaaS. The first
component is a service-oriented infrastructure (SOI) that leverages
NetApp's industry-leading storage technologies. This standardized
architecture allows customers to consume and deploy storage, network, and
compute resources in a repeatable manner to reduce costs and increase
service levels. NetApp offers these shared resources through a service
catalog to deliver infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to end users. A
second component includes a service management framework that provides
processes and best practices to help manage the infrastructure and reduce
fixed costs wherever possible. The last component is a delivery methodology
that leverages NetApp Professional Services and NetApp systems integrator
partners to deploy ITaaS infrastructures efficiently and with the least
risk to customers.
- NetApp Fast-Start Customer Workshop -- NetApp now offers two-
to four-day consulting workshops to help customers develop their plan to
deploy their NetApp dynamic data center solution. The workshops are
designed to quickly evaluate the customer's current business needs,
identify the projects necessary to address the needs, and then help the
customer execute a plan to achieve maximum agility and data center cost
savings.
In addition to the products, solutions, and services detailed above, NetApp
also introduced the DS4243 disk shelf, a versatile SAS/SATA disk subsystem
that enables enterprise customers to streamline their data footprint thanks
to the subsystem's dense and space-efficient design (24TB in 4U). As a
result, enterprise customers with cloud deployments are able to more
efficiently use valuable data center resources.
"T-Systems provides over 170 enterprise customers worldwide with cloud
services for key applications like SAP® and Microsoft® Exchange with
our Dynamic Services offering," said Olaf Heyden, member of the Board of
Management T-Systems for ICT Operations. "Together with our technology
partners we are able to achieve 90% service infrastructure utilization,
allowing us to pass on both cost savings and higher service levels to our
customers. In fact, our customers see up to 30% reduction in cost using
Dynamic Services vs. in-house hosting. Furthermore, our customers benefit
from integrated data protection and secure multi-tenancy while we are able
to flexibly scale IT resources up and down in a matter of hours rather than
days or weeks. NetApp is an essential component to enabling all of these
benefits by regularly and reliably delivering on our specific
requirements."
"More and more enterprises are moving to a virtualized infrastructure in
order to take advantage of both the business and IT benefits that it
affords, such as increased flexibility, faster responsiveness, and lower
costs," said Manish Goel, executive vice president of Product Operations
for NetApp. "The NetApp Data ONTAP storage platform, thanks to its unique
and industry-leading capabilities, has been helping enterprise customers
realize their infrastructure goals for several years. However, today's
announcement of Data ONTAP 8 builds on this foundation by offering
customers the storage solutions and technologies needed for tomorrow's
IT-as-a-Service environments."
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Additional Resources
To learn about how NetApp is working with its partners and customers to
enable enterprise cloud computing, please read
today's
press release or visit the
NetApp
Cloud Experience.
For more perspective on NetApp's cloud enablement strategy and vision,
please visit one of several NetApp blogs, including that of Dave Hitz,
NetApp founder and executive vice president (
http://blogs.netapp.com/dave);
Jay Kidd, NetApp's chief marketing officer (
http://blogs.netapp.com/jay);
and the new "Breaking Through the Cloud" NetApp team blog
(
http://blogs.netapp.com/cloud/).
Also, listen to Val Bercovici, NetApp cloud czar, in a
two-part series discussing all
things cloud, including customer requirements, NetApp's definition, and
NetApp's approach to helping customers deploy the cloud.
Please visit
NetApp
Play-by-Play as Jeff O'Neal, senior director of Data Center Solutions
for NetApp, takes a deeper dive into how NetApp is enabling ITaaS.
White Papers
For more information on NetApp's vision for enabling the cloud, read the
white paper
"Storage Infrastructure for Cloud Computing." The paper
describes the key storage infrastructure requirements for enabling a cloud
environment.
For more information on how NetApp helps customers deploy a dynamic data
center, read the white paper
"Building a Dynamic Data Center." The paper describes the
steps required by customers to begin building a next-generation data
center.
Pricing and Availability
All customer pricing for products described in this release is available
from NetApp sales or reseller partners. NetApp Data ONTAP 8, the NetApp
Performance Acceleration Module II, and the NetApp DS4243 disk shelf are
scheduled to be available in September 2009. NetApp Data Motion is
scheduled to be available in early 2010.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that
accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency.
Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further,
faster at
www.netapp.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to historical information, this document contains certain
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking statements contained
herein represent NetApp's beliefs regarding future events, many of which
are, by their nature, inherently uncertain and outside NetApp's control.
Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements
regarding NetApp's market opportunities and competitive strengths as well
as its strategies, plans, and objectives and other statements that are not
historical facts.
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herein are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from the results anticipated by such
statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements include the adverse
global economic and market conditions, risks associated with the
anticipated growth in network storage and content delivery markets,
NetApp's ability to deliver new product architectures and enterprise
service offerings, and other important factors as described in NetApp's
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Exchange Commission. NetApp disclaims any obligation to update and revise
the forward-looking statements contained in these materials based on new
information or otherwise.
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Contact Information: Press Contact:
Ryan Lowry
NetApp
(408) 822-7544
ryanl@netapp.com