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(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 27, 2009 ) HONG KONG - - In an effort to help customers maximise the value of their existing storage investments, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) has announced the industry's first-ever Guarantee* Program for installed third-party storage. As an addition to NetApp's existing Virtualisation Guarantee Program, which was introduced in September 2008, NetApp is offering a guarantee that customers will decrease their non-NetApp primary storage capacity for virtual server environments by 35 per cent using NetApp V-Series and deduplication technology.
Now customers have more ways to save save with NetApp's Virtualisation Guarantee Program. Customers can take advantage of NetApp's guarantee that they will use 50 per cent less storage in their VMware, Citrix and Microsoft virtual environments with NetApp storage compared to traditional storage arrays. Alternatively, for customers that already own EMC, IBM, HP or HDS storage systems, NetApp will reduce redundant copies of their primary data by at least 35 per cent with NetApp V-Series.
"Customers are stretching their budgets and looking to lower their overall infrastructure costs while minimising the risk of their IT investments," said Jay Kidd, chief marketing officer of NetApp. "While server virtualisation is a way for customers to achieve greater efficiency in the data center, NetApp further fulfills this promise with our storage efficiency capabilities that help not only save space and cost but also minimise risk of their storage investments. Now we're assuring customers that they can realise efficiencies with our competitors' storage using NetApp V-Series. No other storage vendor is willing or able to match this guarantee."
Now NetApp customers can achieve greater storage capacity utilisation on inefficient systems that they already purchased and deployed and tap into the unrealised potential of their existing storage infrastructures. NetApp provides the most complete storage efficiency technologies for virtual server environments so that customers can improve protection of their data assets, buy less storage and reduce their overall power, space and cooling costs in their data centers.
NetApp V-Series is an open storage controller that unifies NetApp and non-NetApp storage under a common storage architecture. V-Series enables customers to take full advantage of the benefits of the powerful features of Data ONTAP such as deduplication, thin provisioning and Snapshot technology, to improve storage efficiency and dramatically simplify data management. NetApp deduplication has become one of the fastest growing technologies in the company's history, with more than 28,000 systems deployed across all tiers of data, including primary, backup and archival.
Availability and Requirements
Customers anywhere in the world who purchase a new V-Series system for their virtual desktop and server environment, including Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V™, can take advantage of this program. If customers don't improve their storage capacity on competitive storage systems by at least 35 per cent with NetApp V-Series and deduplication (and after following established best practices implemented by NetApp Professional Services), NetApp will provide the additional storage capacity needed to meet customers' shortfall, valued up to 35 per cent of the original controller purchased, at no additional charge*. Qualifying service delivery is available from NetApp Global Services or participating Authorised Professional Service Partners in networked storage for virtualised platforms.
For more information, visit www.netapp.com/guarantee, where you can access program details including FAQs, technical resources, best practices and the new NetApp Storage Efficiency Calculator to evaluate your current environment and learn how NetApp storage-efficiency technologies can lead to higher storage utilisation.
Also, listen to the podcast titled "Use 50 per cent Less Storage with NetApp - Guaranteed" with Jim Sangster, senior director of Marketing at NetApp, on ways to manage your company's exponential data growth in a virtualised environment while minimising your storage investment.
To learn more about the latest in NetApp and industry deduplication news, visit NetApp's Dr. Dedupe Blog at http://blogs.netapp.com/drdedupe/.
Discuss this news in the NetApp Community, where you can exchange thoughts and ideas on a variety of topics with our community members. Collaborate with our company, engage in conversation with NetApp leaders and employees and participate in our passion to go further, faster. Join now at www.netapp.com/us/communities/.
*This guarantee and related Program are limited to the terms set forth in www.netapp.com/guarantee applicable only to prospective orders placed after the Program effective date and are dependent upon your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in this document and any of the instruction sets and specifications set forth in the referenced documents. NetApp's sole and exclusive liability and your sole and exclusive remedy associated with the terms of this guarantee and related Program is the provision by NetApp of the additional storage capacity as set forth in this guarantee and related Program.
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