NetApp, formerly Network Appliance, are probably best known for their groundbreaking Data Ontap operating system and the Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) and the “Filers”, or hardware devices, this software shipped on.

NetApp’s latest foray into storage arrays revolves around virtualisation of its own and third party’s disk or tape storage systems; the NetApp V-Series.

As you can see from the graphic below, the V-Series also maintains the commitment to open, unified storage protocol access that has defined NetApp engineering; iSCSI, FCP, NFS, CIFS.

 

You will notice now by examining the graphic below, that NetApp technology can be applied to raw storage that is presented to V-Series appliance from traditionally competitive vendors such as EMC, Sun StorageTek, HDS or HP.


 

Contact Data Engines | ENSTOR today to learn more about the V-Series and how it could help free you of “Storage Silos and the Support ‘Sword of Damocles”!

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