Wednesday, 6 August 2008

NetApp to Interoperate with 3rd Party Vendors for Primary Storage De-Dup

NetApp has announced the ability to deduplicate primary storage from other vendors with its V-Series family of storage virtualization solutions.

The V-Series product line enables customers with storage systems not from NetApp to leverage NetApp’s Data ONTAP 7G operating system for improved business efficiency and reduced data management complexity.

NetApp V-Series now allows customers who have EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, or other storage systems to deploy NetApp deduplication technology to reduce redundant copies of data on these systems.

Deduplication technology, which plays an important role in storage efficiency, continues to gain traction with customers who struggle with data growth and the issues that are associated with it. NetApp deduplication enables customers to eliminate redundant data quickly and easily, improving space and power efficiencies and reducing the amount of raw storage required.

“By providing our V-Series customers with deduplication technology that spans from primary to archival data, they are able to better control their heterogeneous data growth while reducing costs and simplifying data management,” said Brendon Howe, vice president and general manager, NAS and V-Series Business Units for NetApp.

“It is apparent that our customers are rethinking their traditional approaches to data storage, and this announcement is yet another example of the value provided by NetApp V-Series systems.”