NetApp is announcing a series enhancements to its data protection
software, with new versions of NetApp OnCommand Insight, AltaVault,
SnapCenter, MetroCluster and SnapMirror. They also announced one new
solution, NetApp Data Protection Solutions for Microsoft Office 365.
“We are seeing a strong movement to all flash data centres, and
a trend to high capacity disk drives,” said Tim Russell, Vice
President of Product Management at NetApp. “A key issue then
becomes – how do you tie together on-prem data centres with the
cloud to manage them consistently. We find that the data protection
solutions – disaster recovery, backup, and archiving – tend to be
one of the first use cases to do this stitching, so we have been
working hard on our portfolio to enhance these.
AltaVault is NetApp’s cloud-integrated backup appliance. The new
4.2 release adds four new cloud providers – Oracle storage cloud
service, Outscale, Scality, and Orange Business Services, and
integration with a range of backup software solutions and hypervisors
like the KVM Virtual Appliance.
“It leverages existing backup infrastructure to provide faster
recovery times and better cloud economics,” Russell said. The
result is better protection of branch offices in the cloud.
NetApp also announced a new release of OnCommand Insight, which
provides operational intelligence, business insight and IT ecosystem
integration within complex enterprise environments. The new release
offers simplified management with new reports and dashboards, for
better management of capacity, performance, and detect risks to IT
applications and services.
“We now have better integration with core management tools which
allow remedial action to be taken,” Russell said. The tighter
integration between OnCommand Unified Manager and OnCommand
Performance Manager streamlines management while maintaining a
comprehensive view of storage clusters.
“We are seeing great results from our OnCommand Insight
portfolio dealing with complexities that customers have to manage,”
he added.
NetApp SnapCenter software allows admins to empower application
and database administrators to self-manage their data protection and
copies from a single pane of glass. This release includes backup,
restore, and cloning of both SQL Server and Oracle databases from a
central management interface. “The addition of support for Oracle
databases is the new element in this release,” Russell said.
Remarkably also, NetApp registered an impressive revenue growth of
238.2 per cent year over year, which was 2.7 times faster than the
all flash array market as a whole, a report said in Monday. All flash
array is a data storage system that contains multiple flash memory
drives in place of spinning hard disk drives, allowing for much
faster data transfer rates and more efficient use of data centre
resources.
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) "Q1
2016 Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker"
report, NetApp has moved to the second position from fourth in the
tracker quarter over quarter, with 22.8 percent revenue market share,
ahead of Pure, HPE and IBM.
"We had earlier stated that this year will be the year of
Flash and we believe the promise of an all flash data centre will be
a reality. NetApp is leading this charge and with SolidFire we now
have the most complete and differentiated flash portfolio in the
market," said Anil Valluri, president, NetApp (India and SAARC).
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