NetApp upgrades midrange storage arrays

Likewise announced today membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program as an Advantage Alliance Partner. The collaboration provides NetApp customers with identity management and authentication software for secure access control of NetApp® unified storage systems.

HP has announced new storage hardware and software, including provision of non-disruptive volume migration between arrays.

Australian financial services provider Suncorp has been able to dramatically simplify its storage environment by standardising on NetApp gear.

HP and IBM offer to give support to the competitors products for a lower price.

My situation is that the 16TB NetApp we have is fine, but the contract is about to expire and renewing a support contract on old hardware is exceeding expensive compared to that we pay now.

We don't need the highest level of support.

So I am wondering, if there are similar wars/offerings in the storage area, where o

Related to this question: When building a storage area network, do storage administrators generally create the physical disk arrays based on I/O type (sequential versus random access) and provision LUN's from those arrays to hosts needing that particular type of I/O?

Data storage heavyweight NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) shook up its top management team a bit this week, adding a new head of strategy and promoting a seven-year company veteran as its new chief technology officer (CTO), moves the company believes will enable it to capitalize on technology and business trends to better position it for future growth. Jonathan Kissane, former CA Technologies senior vice pre

We use mixed CIFS and NFS volumes and I want to run a single backup server that copies all of the files from the NetAPP to local disks that can be sent of site for backup/DR.

How would I configure the NetAPP to allow me to read everything on both CIFS and NFS filesystems so that they can be backed up with rsync.

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: TechnologyNew Flash Accel software from NetApp uses server-based flash storage to improve performance by up to 90%.

Victorian state government shared IT services agency CenITex has chosen NetApp and Dimension Data to provide storage, backup and recover services.