Midrange SANs

Features: Network Appliance has extended its data center portfolio with the addition of its new highest performing midrange platforms, the FAS3070 and V3070 series; broader Fibre Channel (FC) storage area network (SAN) capabilities; significant enhancements and introductions in the NetApp Manageability Software Family; and new professional services, all aimed at making enterprise data center management easier for customers who demand high-performance SAN solutions and increased application uptime to meet their business needs. The new systems offer more flexibility, availability, and value for its customers. "Today's introductions highlight our comprehensive solutions for our customers' data centers that offer the best performance for midrange SAN, enabling the most flexibility to adapt to business change, the highest availability of application data, and the highest productivity for IT administrators and assets," said Soumitra Agarwal, MD, NetApp India.

"From the FAS3070 and V3070 to our extensive refresh of the NetApp Manageability Software Family, we have poured tremendous innovation into these products, making sure that they deliver the highest performance and application uptime at an attractive price. Whether a customer is looking for a powerful SAN for massive performance needs, a midrange SAN or NAS, or an archive, compliance, or backup solution, NetApp has that customer covered with a variety of solutions. EMC and HP should be concerned. We just have the better portfolio."

"The hypercompetitive and fast-turnaround nature of our business made us look at NetApp advanced storage solutions to shore up our operational efficiencies," says Bhushan Akerkar, Executive Director ? IST, South Asia, AC Nielsen ORG MARG, a leading provider of market research, information and analysis services. "The NetApp solution supports a wide range of applications via different protocols. Further, the solution is easy to upgrade, and disaster recovery systems can be implemented easily."

"Midrange storage is growing fast in the data center across the Asia Pacific region because of its value and flexibility," said Graham Penn, Associate VP, Storage, Asia Pacific, IDC. "Now NetApp raises the bar by enhancing the performance of their successful FAS3000 series with more value in the midrange and offering customers a very compelling data center portfolio."