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The Federal Mandate for Data Center Consolidation

NetApp® consolidation and cloud computing solutions streamline infrastructure and deliver substantial cost, energy, and performance benefits. With a combination of technologies and services, NetApp solutions can consolidate data centers, improve asset utilization, and deliver overall efficiencies.

12 Best Practices For Data Backup and Recovery

Reliability. Up to 71% of restores from tape contain failures. Best Practice: Use disk-to-disk technology for backups. With disk-to-disk technology, your backup data resides on disk drives, proven to be far more reliable than tapes...

The Viability of Indefinite Storage - Insights From Email Archiving

New storage technologies currently offer unprecedented capabilities for storing large amounts of data at low cost. At a time when legislation, legal precedent, and managerial best practices are calling for the retention of data for prolonged periods of time, declining hardware costs have propelled the idea of indefinite storage...

The Storage Management Lifecycle

Predictability, manageability, risk, cost efficiency, and alignment have always been key concerns of the IT executive. Today, with the rapid growth in enterprise storage and the various supporting technologies, the Storage Manager has similar concerns exacerbated by the ever increasing complexity and cost of storage management, even while storage hardware costs are reducing...

NetApp’s Unified Storage Architecture

The traditional model for enterprise storage requires a different storage system for each storage function. One storage architecture might be deployed for primary network-attached storage (NAS), another for storage area networks (SANs), with additional platforms for secondary storage, archive, and compliance...

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