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Network
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Readies Software Solutions for
Storage Area Management Evolution
Sunnyvale, CA - March 19, 2002 -- Network Appliance,
Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), a leading provider of enterprise storage
solutions, today announced new enterprise software solutions
that expand the Network Appliance™ storage management and
virtualization portfolio. For enterprise and mid-sized
companies alike, these new solutions offer the latest in
advanced virtualization and remote administration of a storage
network. Combined or individually, they enable businesses to
more easily manage, consolidate, and administer their storage
deployments, more efficiently protect their data resources,
and realize greater returns on storage investments with fewer
IT staff.
The demands of today's data-intensive infrastructures have
placed a tremendous strain on all IT resources. Storage in
particular has proliferated widely and rapidly to meet the
challenges at all levels of the enterprise from the data
center to the workgroup, and often in the midst of this rapid
proliferation the need to manage and consolidate these storage
resources has been overlooked.
Consolidation and centralized administration of globally
dispersed data are key strategies for enterprises and large IT
organizations looking to quickly analyze and better control
their storage networks affecting business success. DataFabric™
Manager 2.0 and ApplianceWatch™ solutions from Network
Appliance enable companies to simply, powerfully, and remotely
manage NetApp® storage solutions from one central location.
MultiStore™ software from Network Appliance facilitates
enterprise storage consolidation across multiple domains and
servers by enabling a single NetApp filer to be securely
partitioned into several virtual filers.
DataFabric Manager is an indispensable administrative tool to
ease the complexity of quickly growing enterprise storage
networks. Businesses can be truly managed 24x7 without having
to recruit additional IT specialists, offering corporate
customers significant and rapid return on investments. Large
organizations can securely share a common Web-based management
interface among many network and storage administrators to
manage any number of NetApp appliances distributed across the
entire enterprise WAN. Enhanced features provide an integrated
management platform, enabling fewer IT resources to centrally
monitor, configure, manage, and report on their entire data
infrastructure. This allows customers to leverage investments,
increase productivity, and lower TCO in enterprise system
management frameworks.
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