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Network Appliance Announces Storage Solution with Sun Microsystems for High-Availability, Business-Critical Environments
¡ª¡ªFrom Network Appliance, Inc. Feb 8, 2006
NetApp® Fibre Channel Storage Support
Provides Sun Microsystems Customers with Increased Choice
and Investment Protection for Their Sun™ Cluster Environment
Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced
that NetApp Fibre Channel (FC)¨Cbased storage systems (NetApp
unified storage) are now part of the Sun™ Cluster
Open Storage Program, providing an availability solution
for improving the predictability and resilience of business-critical
applications. The program enforces high quality and joint
support, delivering unmatched levels of availability. Network
Appliance participation in the program allows customers
who have invested in NetApp unified storage and want to
use Sun Cluster for application availability to do so easily
and seamlessly.
With Sun certification, NetApp customers can be assured
that NetApp unified storage products are fully interoperable
with the Sun Solaris™ operating system (OS). This
interoperability allows customers using NetApp storage powered
by Data ONTAP® 7G, a dynamic virtualization engine, to double
their storage utilization, automatically manage fine-grained
data, and significantly reduce storage management costs,
while reaping the high-availability benefits associated
with Sun Cluster software.
¡°We¡¯ll continue to work closely with Sun to provide our
customers with open, flexible, and powerful storage solutions
that meet their compelling technology needs,¡± said Patrick
Rogers, vice president of Partners and Alliances Marketing
at Network Appliance. ¡°Certification of NetApp unified storage
solutions in the Sun Cluster Open Storage Program enables
customers to capitalize on NetApp technology advances, while
still taking advantage of the high-availability benefits
of Sun Cluster software.¡±
¡°With Network Appliance participation in the Sun Cluster
Open Storage Program, our companies are providing customers
with expanded choice for deploying high-availability solutions
in the enterprise market,¡± said Stephen Borcich, vice president
of Partner Marketing, Sun Microsystems. ¡°The NetApp unified
storage systems networked with Solaris 10 OS on SPARC and
X64 provide enterprise customers with increased choice and
investment protection for their Sun Cluster environments.¡±
Additional information about the Sun Cluster Open Storage
Program can be found at www.sun.com/software/cluster/osp/.
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