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NetApp Bolsters Midrange Storage Offering(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NetApp announced the addition of the FAS3160 and V3160, adding to its current series of midrange storage offerings for customers. As part of the news, NetApp unveiled its plans to enable 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) support and provide enterprise flash Solid-State Drive (SSD) storage and flash-based caching modules for its FAS and V-Series products. "We needed a storage solution for our virtual server hosting service to help address the challenging nature of providing data management solutions to our enterprise client base at an overall cost point that could make the model sustainable," said Matt Stein, VP of Network Services, Primus Telecommunications Canada, a NetApp FAS3100 customer. "NetApp provided us with the performance and capacity desired while also delivering increased efficiencies and flexibility through features like deduplication and thin provisioning. Combined with our VMware solution, Primus is able to provide a high level of service to a broader base of our clientele with pricing that is competitive in the Canadian marketplace." NetApp said it will expand its support of 8Gb FC SAN solutions for all NetApp FAS and V-Series storage systems. The company said customers can now augment their virtualized data centers by addressing their server virtualization demands on storage networks. "As more customers move to virtualized data centers, their networking and storage requirements become more pronounced," said Rajiv Ramaswami, VP and general manager of the Data Center Switching Technology Group at Cisco. "With the new Cisco 8Gbps line cards for the Cisco MDS 9500 Series within NetApp's SAN switching portfolio, customers gain better end-to-end performance, scalability, and manageability in their virtualized data centers, while at the same time fully preserving their existing investment in their SAN infrastructure." NetApp also reported that the FAS3160, V3160, and other FAS and V-Series storage systems will be enterprise flash ready. As part of its strategy, NetApp said it will combine flash memory with its unified storage architecture. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News |