Wednesday, 16 August 2006

Network Appliance Works Around Tiered Storage Infrastructure

Enterprises continue to battle with the fundamental problems of the escalating costs and risks associated with unstructured data, which is stored enterprise wide. Customers are at risk of having no visibility into the content of the data and, by default, the potential legal, compliance, or privacy implications associated with the 'unknowns'. Network Appliance has extended the functionality of the Information Server 1200 (IS1200) to provide customers with a solution that not only provides granular visibility into the content of unstructured data, but also automates business policy around compliance and litigation through transparent data migration and storage consolidation in a tiered storage infrastructure.

"This announcement is about NetApp providing customers with a holistic solution to help them gain control over escalating costs and risks associated with unstructured data," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Alliances at Network Appliance. "With this software introduction, we are extending our portfolio of solutions to help customers reduce the amount of time normally required to manage compliance-related storage management tasks and tiered storage migration."