Network Appliance

The NetApp Difference

Network Appliance (NetApp) is a leading provider of unified enterprise storage solutions that deliver simplified data management, flexible and scalable storage infrastructures, comprehensive data protection and reliable data access that provide simple solutions to complex business problems. NetApp has established itself as a leader and innovator in the storage industry through a commitment to simplicity and innovation.

Solutions 

NetApp solutions, which consist of hardware, software and services, help customers deliver improved performance and increased scalability for the dynamic enterprise. Using the right combination of products, technologies and partners, NetApp solutions help solve the most critical IT and business challenges while maximising ROI. The NetApp FAS series provides robust networked storage systems – NAS, iSCSI and FC, for consolidating data and simplifying data management and is scaleable from 500 GBytes to multiple TBytes.

Hardware

The entry level FAS200 range consists of the FAS250 and the FAS270. These products provide for storage capacities up to 16TByte with up to 4 GbE ports onboard and 2 FC (2 GByte) interfaces.

The new mid-range product from NetApp is the FAS 3000. This product is extremely scaleable.  The FAS 3050 can be configured to support up to 336 discs/168 TByte of mixed FC and SATA storage, and presents up to 8 GbE ports for iSCSI connectivity and 8 FC (2 Gbyte) ports for FC SAN connectivity.