NetApp have announced new products and capabilities as part of the NetApp® Manageability Software Family to enable customers transform their data centre architectures.

This announcement driven by NetApp storage innovations for virtualised servers will help customers improve their IT infrastructure and processes. Enterprise customers are undergoing significant data centre transformations to enhance IT flexibility and efficiency as server virtualisation moves into broader deployment.

To enable this transformation, NetApp is providing customers a proven storage platform for virtualised environments to achieve increased service levels, higher asset utilisation, and greater data centre power, space, and cooling efficiencies.

This further strengthens NetApp’s unified data management platform with the following new innovative software solutions to drive customers’ data centre transformation:

- SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure—SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure enables customers to protect their VMware environments with automated data protection and recovery of their virtual machines. SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure dramatically reduces human error and increases server utilization for application workloads by eliminating the interruptions and performance impact caused by traditional server-hosted backups and restores.

- SnapManager Compatibility with VMware Virtualisation Software - All Windows-based SnapManager products are now compatible with VMware virtualisation software, providing customers the ability to manage data within virtual machines and take full advantage of the application-specific data management capabilities provided by NetApp’s SnapManager products.

- Provisioning Manager - Provisioning Manager provides policy-based automation to speed up existing provisioning processes, improves capacity utilization, and reduces human error that results in data loss. As a result, storage administrators can eliminate the complex series of manual steps normally associated with provisioning storage in both virtual and physical server environments.

NetApp’s high-performance storage solutions were specifically developed to transform data centre technology into a competitive business advantage.

NetApp are represented in Malta by Merlin Computers of Mountbatten Street Hamrun. For more details please visit www.netapp.com or e-mail sales@merlin.com.mt.