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“Network Appliance has been very successful with NAS and must be viewed favorably as being able to carve out a piece of the SAN market1.”
THE EVALUATOR GROUP
October 11, 2002
Business Continuance
Now more than ever, businesses must focus on disaster preparedness and recovery. Minutes of downtime are costly. Hours of downtime can be catastrophic. Working in concert with a customer’s existing networking infrastructure, Network Appliance storage solutions provide comprehensive disaster readi- ness. With NetApp solutions, you can help customers implement remote site mirroring and disaster recovery plans quickly and effectively, without added administration costs.
Global Storage Management
As a customer’s operations grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to provide timely information to remote locations and branch offices, jeopardizing their
effectiveness and productivity. NetApp storage solutions can quickly replicate and relay information to one or many locations, providing remote offices with the data, application performance, and online training they need to stay just as current as the corporate headquarters.
The Right Solutions for
Today’s Market
To meet today’s challenges, many busi- nesses must make fundamental changes in the way they store and distribute data and information. Network Appliance solutions provide the answer with simple and easy ways to consolidate storage for greater productivity and cost savings:
SIMPLE AND EASY TO DEPLOY: NetApp solutions require a mere fraction of the IT staff required by competitive solutions.
THE INDUSTRY’S LOWEST TCO: According to recent studies by INPUT, IDC, and the GIGA Group1 Network Appliance solutions deliver the industry’s lowest total cost
of ownership by allowing customers to architect solutions that require less time and staff to implement and manage.
INHERENT FLEXIBILITY: NetApp solutions fit easily into heterogeneous computing and networking environments, enabling you to easily integrate your solutions into a customer’s business.
HIGH AVAILABILITY: NetApp solutions have
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All this means that when you recommend and sell a NetApp solution, you’ve sold the best storage available
1Source: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/ 1,289483,sid5_gci856592,00.html)