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NetApp integrates with Symantec to broaden customers' IT efficiency
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 05 August 2010, 17:35 IST
New Delhi: NetApp announced today that it has integrated its unified storage systems with Symantec's Thin Reclamation API to help SAN customers automatically reclaim storage space and improve overall storage efficiency. The newly integrated solution provides customers the ability to manage, reduce, and reclaim storage space throughout the entire data lifecycle so they can improve planning and reduce their overall IT footprint and management costs.
NetApp unified storage helps customers store large amount of data by using several storage efficiency technologies inherent to the NetApp Data ONTAP operating system. These technologies help customers get more use out of the disk they have and Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation gives customers the ability to manage their SAN environments and reduce data center power, cooling, and space costs. With NetApp and Symantec, planning future storage use is easier, as are provisioning, reclaiming unused space, and reprovisioning.
Jason Bane, Vice President of Infrastructure Operations at Virginia Credit Union said "NetApp storage, with its built-in thin provisioning and deduplication, has given us the speed and flexibility we need to provide better service to our members."
"Symantec offers the industry's leading cross-platform thin optimization solution, enabling organizations to benefit from the true cost and efficiency advantages of thin provisioning," said Don Angspatt, Vice President of Product Management, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec.
"NetApp storage gives customers storage efficiency capabilities that go beyond thin provisioning, deduplication on primary storage, and default RAID-DP," said Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Solutions and Alliances at NetApp. "By working with Symantec and integrating our storage with Veritas Storage Foundation, we continue to break new ground in what is possible with IT efficiency. The principle is to provide leading efficiency without any compromise on flexibility, simplicity, and performance," he added.
