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NetApp Storage Solutions to Support 4Gb Fibre Channel

Network Appliance's storage solutions will now support 4Gb Fibre Channel (FC) with the aim to allow its customers to increase the performance and availability of critical data and applications. According to a company release, "NetApp SAN storage systems using 4Gb FC are ideally suited for customers that need to quickly develop, compute, transfer, or analyze large amounts of data, such as backup to disk, streaming video on demand, modeling and rendering, and large databases with extreme performance for faster time-to-solutions. The next-generation SAN technology gives customers the greater bandwidth performance they need, with no increase in price, and higher reliability due to a state-of-the-art interconnection technology that reduces the need for additional switch and host bus adapter ports."

Network Appliance provides comprehensive support for 4Gb FC SAN solutions for Solaris and in calendar Q2 2006 for Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, VMware, and NetWare environments. In addition, NetApp sells or supports 4Gb HBAs from Emulex and Qlogic and 4Gb switches from Brocade, Cisco, and McData.


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