The data center isnt the only area NetApp wants to penetrate further. The company is also hoping to take a large bite out of the subsystem compliance market, which today is dominated by EMCs Centerra. NetApp, which launched its SnapLock Compliance WORM (write once/read many) technology to its NearStore appliance in April, will soon offer the feature as a separate software package (see NetApp Adds WORM to NearStore).
This is certainly a response to EMCs Centera product, says Enterprise Storage Group's Gerr. I think [putting this on software] offers a really good investment protection message. It can also help simplify the end user decision on when to deploy disk-based WORM storage.
The NetApp WORM technology, which up until now has only been available on a separate dedicated appliance, allows companies to create a separate, secure volume for documents that fall under regulatory constraints. To ensure compliance, the technology protects documents in this separate volume from being erased or tampered with.
NetApp claims that its new software package can be loaded onto any of NetApps existing filers and coexist with other, noncompliant data.
Many of our customers already had filers deployed, Vasudevan says. They didnt want to buy an entire system for compliant data. They wanted software.
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