Contact Information: NetApp Contact Nathan Phillips Ph: 408.822.7284 nathan.phillips@netapp.com
NetApp V-Series Strikes a Chord With Customers by Making Their Existing Infrastructures More Efficient
| Source: NetApp, Inc.
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - September 10, 2009) - NetApp (NASDAQ : NTAP ) today announced that
despite the difficult economy, revenue for its V-Series product line grew
more than 100% year over year during its four fiscal quarters that ended on
July 31, 2009. V-Series is a family of open storage controllers that unify
NetApp® and non-NetApp storage under a common architecture for
multiprotocol services. V-Series products are now deployed with more than
3,000 non-NetApp storage systems, enabling customers to achieve greater
storage efficiency, reduce costs, and improve data protection with their
existing storage.
Sunrise Senior Living recently purchased NetApp V-Series to improve its
disaster recovery site. Sunrise also deployed a NetApp FAS storage system
for its main data center. Years of rapid growth left Sunrise with an
inefficient, expensive infrastructure that suffered from low utilization,
high energy and facilities costs, and nonfunctioning backup schemes that
left critical data at risk. Although the organization invested in its
infrastructure, it could not meet the expanding needs.
With the help of a NetApp value-added reseller, IronBrick, Sunrise will
consolidate its servers with VMware® and its storage with NetApp. The
V-Series will enable Sunrise to also virtualize third-party storage at the
company's disaster recovery site, protecting its original investment and
considerably reducing the backup and recovery window with NetApp
Snapshot™ and SnapMirror® technologies. Sunrise expects to reduce
Citrix data by 85% with NetApp deduplication on storage not from NetApp.
With NetApp V-Series and storage-based data replication, the company
estimates it will see considerable savings on licensing fees for
capacity-based data replication over three years. The infrastructure
improvements have provided a savings amounting to approximately $2 million
with additional savings projected for the future.
"With NetApp, we're aiming to increase speed and efficiency and bring costs
under control," said Rosemary Theurer, senior vice president for Technology
at Sunrise Senior Living. "But the best part about our new solution is that
it's not entirely new. We were able to complement existing investments in
non-NetApp infrastructure, which was significantly cheaper than rebuilding
from the ground up."
NetApp V-Series enables customers to take full advantage of the benefits of
the powerful features of Data ONTAP®, such as deduplication, thin
provisioning, and Snapshot technology, to improve storage efficiency and
drastically simplify data management. NetApp deduplication is one of the
fastest-growing technologies in the company's history, with more than
37,000 systems deployed across all tiers of data, including primary,
backup, and archival. With the V-Series, NetApp even guarantees* that
customers will decrease their non-NetApp primary storage capacity for
virtual server environments by 35% using NetApp V-Series and deduplication
technology.
"V-Series gives customers greater flexibility and efficiency with their
existing third-party storage," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of
Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "Limited budgets are requiring customers to
get more out of the storage they already own. With our storage efficiency
technology, customers get back raw capacity and significantly reduce the
rate at which storage grows, and that's a compelling proposition regardless
of what storage you own."
For more information on the NetApp V-Series, visit
www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/v3100/ or read the NetApp
Product and Technology and Insights Blog at
blogs.netapp.com/insights/2009/02/one-mans-monste.html.
To see how much storage you could be saving with NetApp storage efficiency
technology, visit the Storage Efficiency Calculator at www.secalc.com/?se.
Discuss this news in the NetApp Community, where you can exchange thoughts
and ideas on a variety of topics with our community members. Collaborate
with our company, engage in conversation with NetApp leaders and employees,
our customers, and partners. Participate in our passion to go further,
faster. Join now at www.netapp.com/us/communities.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that
accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency.
Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around the world go
further, faster at www.netapp.com.
NetApp, the NetApp logo, Go further, faster, Data ONTAP, SnapMirror, and
Snapshot are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the
United States and/or other countries. VMware is a registered trademark of
VMware, Inc. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
*This guarantee and related Program are limited to the terms set forth in
http://www.netapp.com/guarantee applicable only to prospective orders
placed after the Program effective date and are dependent upon your
compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in this document and any
of the instruction sets and specifications set forth in the referenced
documents. NetApp's sole and exclusive liability and your sole and
exclusive remedy associated with the terms of this guarantee and related
Program is the provision by NetApp of the additional storage capacity as
set forth in this guarantee and related Program.