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KEY BENEFITS

Reduce costs

Our multiprotocol, unied storage

simplies management, reduces costs,

and improves eciency.

Improve scalability

Solve your data management chal-

lenges o scalability and availability

with our network-attached storage

(NAS) solutions.

Increase value

Lower your administration costs by

as much as 60% with our robust

iSCSI storage.

Enhance fexibility

Protect your existing FC inra-structure

and consolidate with condence

with NetApp Unied Connect and

support or Fibre Channel over

Ethernet (FCoE).

THE CHALLENGE

Reduce complexity and simpliy data

management

The explosion o data growth orces IT

administrators to deal with complicated

technical and business challenges. Dispa-rate server and storage systems, manage-

ment o special-purpose applications, data

center space and inrastructure constraints,

and new budget pressures associated with

environmental actors all combine to create

a complicated environment to manage.

Deploying dissimilar SAN and NAS storage

solutions, each with its own platorm and

management, results in separate network

storage inrastructures. Each inrastructure

brings the potential or underutilized and

captive storage, requiring multiple data

recovery solutions, a variety o data man-

agement models, and potentially dierent

teams o people.

THE SOLUTION

Reduce costs with our multiprotocol

Ethernet storage

You need a storage solution with the fexibility

to support all o your business applications,

whether using NAS or SAN protocols, while

also leveraging investments made in your

traditional Fibre Channel inrastructureall

rom the same storage system. Imagine not

having to buy equipment every time your IT

requirements change, allowing you to

respond more rapidly to new business

challenges.

Enhancements to Ethernet are expanding

its role as a storage abric. Gigabit Ethernet

has proven very eective in addressing themajority o application I/O requirements. And

now the next generation o Ethernet, with

10-gigabit speeds and increased quality o

service, is accelerating the move to consoli-

date IT resources and reduce cost. For

applications such as consolidation and

server virtualization, NetApp Ethernet stor-

age is ideal. Our Ethernet-based storage

systems, through their unied, multiprotocol

architecture, have delivered consolidation

and unication to our customers or over

15 years.

NetApps IP storage solution enabled us to

deliver capacity on demand. Weve beenable to shrink new-project storage activation

rom eight weeks down to days. Andrew

Crabb, Group Manager, Data and Storage

Solution Center, Telstra

Improve scalability

With NetApp NAS solutions, you can solve

the data management challenges o scalability,

availability, and consolidation or your

existing Windows, Linux, and UNIX le

servers. To keep up with the growing needs

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o your business, our portolio o NAS

solutions oers fexible provisioning, reliable

backup, archiving, business continuity, and

virtualization. Our NAS systems are the

storage solution o choice or a variety o

workloads: Windows and UNIX home direc-

tories and user le storage, database and

business applications such as Oracle and

SAP, and server and desktop virtualization

such as VMware and Citrix Xen. And withsupport or multiple le access protocols

such as CIFS and NFS, you can consolidate

and share les across your Windows, UNIX,

and Linux environments.

Increase value

I you need a high-perorming and highly

reliable SAN, Fibre Channel isnt your only

option. NetApps robust iSCSI storage, along

with our powerul data management sot-

ware, gives you the best o both worlds:

perormance plus the amiliar Internet

Protocol. Today, more than 25,000 NetApp

customers rely on our iSCSI solutions or

higher data availability, simpler data man-

agement, and better storage utilization.

Whether you are a small to midsize company

or a large corporation, our proven iSCSI

solutions can meet your needs.

Enhance fexibility and consolidate

Fibre Channel over Ethernet can give you

increased fexibility or your high-perormance,

data availability, and data managementneeds. FCoE extends Fibre Channel into the

Ethernet environment, combining two

leading technologies, the Fibre Channel

protocol and Ethernet, to oer end users

more options or SAN connectivity and

networking. It also provides an evolutionary

path or Fibre Channel SAN customers to

migrate over time. As proo o our commit-

ment to FCoE, NetApp is an active participant

in the development and marketing o the

FCoE standard and was the rst vendor to

ship native FCoE storage systems. FCoE is a

logical progression o our unied storage

approach o oering FC, iSCSI, and NAS in

all o our enterprise systems.

NETAPP UNIFIED CONNECT

NetApp Unied Connect delivers data

access using NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, and FCoE

protocols concurrently over a shared net-

work port using the NetApp unied target

adapter. As a leader in Ethernet storage,

rst as a NAS pioneer and next as an early

proponent o iSCSI, NetApp now leads with

FCoE and Unied Connect. Thousands o

our customers have deployed Ethernetstorage to simpliy data management,

protect investment, and reduce total cost

o ownership. And with NetApp Unied

Connect you can build a fexible and ecient

shared inrastructure today as your ounda-

tion or uture-ready IT.

ABOUT NETAPP

NetApp creates innovative storage and

data management solutions that deliver

outstanding cost eciency and accelerate

perormance breakthroughs. Discover our

passion or helping companies around the

world go urther, aster at www.netapp.com.

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