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- Virginia Community College System Protects Services for 240,000 Users With NetApp's Technology
- Established in 1966, the Virginia Community College System VCCS spans 23 community colleges on 40 campuses across the state. To ensure the highest availability of services, VCCS recently initiated a system-wide technology refresh that included setting up a new Disaster Recovery DR site. They wanted to ensure (24x7) availability of...
- Tags: NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Enabling Virtualized Grids With Oracle and NetApp
- Oracle Grid architectures are absorbing new technologies and are continuing to evolve. The recent introduction of Oracle VM for advanced server virtualization, in combination with storage virtualization features of NetApp such as FlexVol, FlexClone, and FAS deduplication, make it possible to significantly increase server and storage utilization on Oracle Grids...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., NetApplications.com, Grid, NetApp, Oracle Grid Architecture, Storage, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Top Law Firm Relies on Storage From Network Appliance and 3PAR
- One the top law firms in the United States represents clients in high-stakes litigation, complex financing and regulatory matters, government affairs, and corporate and technology transactions. With data growing about 30% annually, storage was increasingly complicated to manage. So the customer looked into storage solutions that would allow them to...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., 3PARData Inc., NetApp, Storage, Litigation, Hardware, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
- The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger scale organization--an entity that can quickly adapt to change and scale to meet the rapidly changing needs of today's business, an entity that focuses on delivering and maintaining applications, not infrastructure. In order to achieve IT transparency,...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Information Technology, Environment, Storage, Enterprise Strategy Group, NetApp, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2008-01-25
- Virtualizing Storage for VMware Success
- Server virtualization has made day-to-day life a whole lot simpler for systems administrators; however, the benefits have not been shared by storage administrators and backup operators, who face new challenges as the result of data encapsulation. Storage infrastructure and operational practices that were designed for physical server architectures are not...
- Tags: Backup, Server, VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-23
- NetApp to acquire storage management firm Onaro
- Network Appliance Inc. has announced the acquisition of Boston based Onaro, a storage management company, for $120 million. An excerpt from VNUnet: Tom Georgens, executive vice president for product operations of NetApp, said: "NetApp is very excited about the breakthroughs it can achieve for its...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Storage Management, NetApp, Onaro, Storage, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Making Green IT a Reality: Customer Perspectives on the Impact of Storage Vendor Decisions on Power, Cooling, & Space in Enterprise Data Centers
- "Green IT" is a popular concept today, as data centers worldwide face rising costs for power, cooling, and space and companies strive to meet public demand for improved environmental stewardship. Many IT organizations, however, are just starting to understand the influence that their IT purchase decisions have on data center...
- Tags: Data Center, Network Appliance Inc., Green IT, NetApp, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- StoreVault With VMware Eradicates Corporate Development Systems' Storage Issues
- As a business solutions provider, Corporate Development Systems CDS often tested a large number of different IT environments in-house before deploying these solutions to their customers. Testing scenarios demanded up to 12 physical servers, which were later replaced by a combination of 3 physical servers and virtual servers using VMware...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Total Cost Comparison: NetApp vs. EMC Solutions for Windows File Services Consolidation
- Once companies have made the decision to consolidate their Windows file services environments, a key consideration for many is which storage platform will provide the lowest total cost. This independent research by Mercer Management Consulting reviews the cost of acquiring, deploying, operating, and managing EMC Celerra and NetApp FAS environments....
- Tags: Consolidation, Microsoft Windows, EMC Corp., NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Completing eDiscovery Up to Four Times Faster With Solutions From Symantec and NetApp
- Russell Investment Group provides strategic advice, world-class implementation, state-of-the-art performance benchmarks and a range of institutional-quality investment products. Facing growing challenges in email storage management, compliance, and eDiscovery, Russell Investment Group turned to Symantec and Symantec business partner NetApp. Results include millions of dollars in avoided email archiving/journaling service costs,...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., NetApp, Russell Investment Group, E-mail, Storage, Security, Online Communications, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-11-08
- EMC, NetApp, and HP Midrange Storage Arrays
- Many factors contribute to the ownership cost for enterprise storage. These include but are not limited to: physical capacity relative to physical space requirements, performance capacity for data transfer and system reaction time, software maintenance and updates, expandability and flexibility, hardware purchase price, software licensing costs, hardware expansion or upgrade...
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., TCO, EMC Corp., NetApp, Edison Group, Roi/Tco, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Whitnall School District Goes Virtual With StoreVault to Deal With High Investment in Infrastructure
- The Whitnall School District WSD is a consortium of educational institutions, based in Village of Hales Corners that is partly in Franklin city and partly in Greenfield. Storage needs kept expanding as backup data had to be retained for 7 years, instead of the previous 4 year time period. Virtual...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Investment, VMWare ESX Server, NetApp, Whitnall School District, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Network Appliance and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices
- Network Appliance technology enables companies to extend their virtual infrastructures to include advanced virtualized storage alongside their virtual servers. NetApp provides industry-leading solutions in the areas of data protection; ease of provisioning; thin storage provisioning; file-based backups; instantaneous Virtual Machine VM backup and restores; instantaneous VM cloning for testing, application...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Protecting Exchange Server 2007 With NetApp SnapManager for Exchange
- Microsoft Exchange Server has become a vital source of communication as well as repository for business critical data. Because of the increasing importance of Microsoft Exchange Server, data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability play a critical role in Exchange Server deployments. As the importance of Exchange Server within the...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server, Backup, Server, NetApp, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Phoenix Assurance Company Leverages NetApp Storage to Ensure Recovery Within 48 Hours of a Site Failure
- The Israel Phoenix Assurance Company Ltd. specializes in general, life, health, and nursing insurance. The company wanted to upgrade aging storage Infrastructure, to improve efficiency and support a remote Disaster recovery Plan. The unique capabilities of NetApp Snapshot technology led Phoenix to consider a NetApp storage solution.
- Tags: Recovery, Phoenix Technologies, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- HP Blade Center and NetApp SAN
- Can i connect NetApp 960c or NetApp 3040 to HP Blade Center c7000 using "Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem" ? Theoreticly i can but i just want to be 100% sure .
- Tags: Storage, Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, SAN, elidezman@..., NetApp, HP blade, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-03
- Insight Investments Accelerates Growth With Server Virtualization Supported by NetApp FAS Storage
- Based in Southern California, Insight Investments Corporation helps companies worldwide control their technology acquisition, optimize and secure their information assets by providing financial solutions and technical expertise. The company wanted to upgrade IT infrastructure to accommodate 100% annual growth in sales, while reducing space, power, and cooling requirements and streamlining...
- Tags: Investment, Server, NetApp, Server Virtualization, Insight Investment, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- Improving Business Agility and Efficiency With Help From Symantec and NetApp
- Challenged by exponential growth in data storage requirements - in particular with email messages increasing in volume and size - the AA Automobile Association decided to deploy a centralized storage infrastructure. The AA worked closely with Company-i, now part of Symantec, to optimize the value and performance of the NetApp...
- Tags: Server Management, Symantec Corp., NetApp, Storage, Security, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-07-20
- Storage Block Alignment With VMware Virtual Infrastructure
- In order to get the best performance from a storage system, the storage blocks on the LUN must be aligned to the file system on the operating system. This is typically done by setting the OS type when the LUN is created on the storage system. This paper discusses LUN...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., VMware Inc., Storage System, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-01
- ESG White Paper: Storage for Mid-Sized Enterprises
- Tony Asaro from Enterprise Strategy Group ESG takes a close look at the mid-size enterprise storage landscape and the unique challenges facing mid-sized companies as they evaluate implementing a storage network. He provides an overview on the factors driving storage networking adoption, as well as its benefits and perceived inhibitors....
- Tags: NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-01
