Suncorp simplifies storage with NetApp

Insurance and banking company Suncorp has picked Telstra as its sole provider of mobile voice and data services for the next three years.

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

There’s always a need for more storage space these days, especially with Big Data, social media content and other files hogging all the room.

More than 40 emerging local cloud services providers have bought kit from storage specialist NetApp – which is delighted with the new business, even though it believes a fair proportion of those cloud services will go bust.

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 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

Queensland based financial services business Suncorp is to spend $275 million on the next phase of its core systems modernisation programme intended to reduce its operating costs, kill off 14 more legacy systems and deliver savings of $200 million a year scheduled to kick in by 2016.

NetApp today announced significant upgrades to two of its midrange Fabric Attached Storage arrays, boosting memory, processor cores and drive slots.

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