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NetApp Takes On EMC With Future Ready Infrastructure: Page 3 of 3

Today NetApp announced new high-end and mid-range storage systems, support for 2.5 inch disk drives and Solid State Disks (SSD), Data ONTAP 8.0.1, unified connectivity for FCoE, CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI, along with the OnCommand Management Suite, and FlexPod for VMware which is a pre-sized and validated data center infrastructure solution. NetApp is clearly targeting the burgeoning Virtual Machine opportunity and is building the path to a future-ready infrastructure. In my opinion, today's announcem
Tom Trainer
November 09, 2010

The newly named NetApp OnCommand Management Suite includes control, automation, and analytic capabilities and supports IT integration with access capabilities and development support via a software development kit (SDK) for integration with a variety of third-party management offerings and directly with hypervisors. Control functions include System Manager, Operations Manager, and My AutoSupport. Automation functions include Provisioning Manager, Protection Manager, SnapManager software and SnapDrive software. OnCommand's Analyze function consists of SANscreen.

In association with this announcement, NetApp has deployed a new software structure intended to provide more value and enhanced simplicity for its customers. This new structure provides added capabilities to its base software, enables customers to choose one connectivity protocol at no extra charge, and identifies seven key software products which users deploy most frequently and packaging of these key products in a more attractively priced bundle.

The base software, Data ONTAP Essentials, now includes Business Continuity, Secure multi-tenancy, and Automated management capabilities. The key add-on software has been identified in a bundle as SnapRestore, SnapMirror, FlexClone, SnapVault, SnapManager Suite, plus two optional protocols (iSCSI, FC, CIFS, NFS).

At the time this blog was posted NetApp was neither a client of Tom Trainer, nor Analytico, Inc.

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