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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.
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((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd -
http://www.m2.com))
((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com))
Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News
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