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NetApp Ushers In New Era, Delivers Cloud Infrastructure For The Enterprise: Page 2 of 4

"While Data ONTAP provides a wide range of enterprises with storage solutions that fuel their cloud infrastructures, Data ONTAP 8 will take it to the next level by providing enhanced scalability, performance, efficiencies, and other features that are key to the cloud," said Terri McClure, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Combine this technology foundation with its impressive lineup of cloud enablement partners and NetApp has clearly strengthened its position as a true cloud storage infrastructure provider."

New Products, Solutions, and Services Empower the Cloud
The following new NetApp?? products, solutions, and services address customers' critical cloud requirements for a more efficient and flexible cloud infrastructure:

    * NetApp Data Motion???--NetApp's new data motion technology allows enterprises to move data nondisruptively across storage systems with zero application downtime. Now customers can eliminate the impact of planned maintenance outages in virtualized multi-tenant environments. NetApp Data Motion is the first solution of its kind in the storage industry and builds upon the NetApp unified storage architecture to greatly enhance availability for both internal and external cloud customers.
    * Performance Acceleration Module II--The second-generation Performance Acceleration Module, a family of flash technology-based caching modules, provides an innovative, alternative use of flash/SSD technology rather than using SSDs in disk shelves. Customers can cost-effectively improve performance across a broader set of workloads without straining their existing infrastructure. Tests conducted by NetApp with an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload show that customers can cost-effectively increase I/O throughput by approximately 78% and speed response time by approximately 30%. These gains were achieved using less than 1% more power and no additional rack space.
    * NetApp Dynamic Data Center (NDDC) Solution--The NetApp dynamic data center solution is comprised of three components to provide customers with a proven and tested solution for delivering ITaaS. The first component is a service-oriented infrastructure (SOI) that leverages NetApp's industry-leading storage technologies. This standardized architecture allows customers to consume and deploy storage, network, and compute resources in a repeatable manner to reduce costs and increase service levels. NetApp offers these shared resources through a service catalog to deliver infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to end users. A second component includes a service management framework that provides processes and best practices to help manage the infrastructure and reduce fixed costs wherever possible. The last component is a delivery methodology that leverages NetApp Professional Services and NetApp systems integrator partners to deploy ITaaS infrastructures efficiently and with the least risk to customers.
    * NetApp Fast-Start Customer Workshop--NetApp now offers two- to four-day consulting workshops to help customers develop their plan to deploy their NetApp dynamic data center solution. The workshops are designed to quickly evaluate the customer's current business needs, identify the projects necessary to address the needs, and then help the customer execute a plan to achieve maximum agility and data center cost savings.

In addition to the products, solutions, and services detailed above, NetApp also introduced the DS4243 disk shelf, a versatile SAS/SATA disk subsystem that enables enterprise customers to streamline their data footprint thanks to the subsystem's dense and space-efficient design (24TB in 4U). As a result, enterprise customers with cloud deployments are able to more efficiently use valuable data center resources.

"T-Systems provides over 170 enterprise customers worldwide with cloud services for key applications like SAP?? and Microsoft?? Exchange with our Dynamic Services offering," said Olaf Heyden, member of the Board of Management T-Systems for ICT Operations. "Together with our technology partners we are able to achieve 90% service infrastructure utilization, allowing us to pass on both cost savings and higher service levels to our customers. In fact, our customers see up to 30% reduction in cost using Dynamic Services vs. in-house hosting. Furthermore, our customers benefit from integrated data protection and secure multi-tenancy while we are able to flexibly scale IT resources up and down in a matter of hours rather than days or weeks. NetApp is an essential component to enabling all of these benefits by regularly and reliably delivering on our specific requirements."