As data requirements increase at a rapid pace, IT managers look for innovative ways to leverage scarce resources and provide users with reliable, high-performance access to information. They must scale infrastructures worldwide to provide users with access anytime, anywhere. And they must protect the corporation's data as a corporate asset.

Whether you are planning a central data center, an e-business infrastructure, or a departmental file server, your success is dependent on being able to rapidly deploy manageable solutions providing high-performance, highly available data access. NetApp filer storage appliances are the building blocks that allow companies to simplify, share, and scale their storage networking and content delivery infrastructures.

NetApp filers are a robust, field-proven, highly available solution (>99.99% data availability) for consolidating data and simplifying data management. NetApp filers are easy to manage appliances, specifically designed for today's scalable, network-centric IT system architectures. NetApp filers are designed for easy standards-based integration, guaranteeing rapid deployment, simplified ongoing management, and low cost of ownership. Multiprotocol heterogeneous data sharing provides simultaneous file system access to UNIX, NT, and Web-based servers and clients. Leading-edge file-level data management tools, innovative data protection solutions, high performance client access, and simple system management are provided by the Data ONTAP operating system and the patented NetApp WAFL file system.

Large, global storage and content delivery networks are becoming less complex by employing fast, simple, reliable appliance building blocks as the basic data management fabric. Leading-edge companies from a variety of industries, ranging from banking and telecom to engineering and e-business, are deploying NetApp filer solutions to break the scalability and data management barriers that inhibit large-scale, global storage and content delivery networks.

Source: Network Appliance