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Follow UsMumbai: In an effort to help Indian enterprises maximize the value of their existing storage investments and reduce burgeoning IT costs, NetApp announced the Guarantee Program offering to help enterprises decrease their primary storage capacities for virtual server environments.
Customers can use 50 percent less storage in their VMware, Citrix and Microsoft virtual environments with NetApp storage compared to traditional storage arrays.
Alternatively, for customers who already own EMC, IBM, HP or HDS storage systems, NetApp claims that it will reduce redundant copies of their primary data by at least 35 percent with NetApp V-Series. This indirectly reduces their infrastructure costs like energy and real estate, as raw storage addition is a key factor for higher power consumption and increased floor-space in data centers.
According to the NetApp-Nielsen Data Explosion survey, number of enterprises demanding storage capacity in the range of 6-10TB is expected jump by 166 percent, whereas a 200 percent rise is expected in enterprises demanding 21-25TB of storage capacities. These findings clearly indicate that enterprises are generating massive amounts of data, which will force higher storage spends in 2009-10, if the data growth is not managed efficiently. However, now enterprises can maximize IT investments and defer their storage expenditures by using NetApp's Virtualization Guarantee Program.
" Enterprises of all sizes are stretching their budgets to lower their overall infrastructure costs while minimizing the risk of their IT investments," said Surajit Sen, Director-Alliances and Marketing, NetApp India.
"Our storage efficiency capabilities will not only save space and power costs but also maximize IT investments. We are assuring enterprises that they can realize efficiencies even with our competitors' solutions using NetApp V-Series technology. No other storage vendor is willing or able to match this guarantee, which has a direct cost benefit in the current economic environment."