UNIFIED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
NetApp unified storage facilitates the deployment of a single, integrated storage solution. This enables you to focus on application requirements rather than technology, while ensuring that your storage network will be capable of seamlessly supporting your long-term storage needs.
NetApp enterprise storage systems function as “unification engines” that simultaneously support Fibre Channel and IP storage area networks (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS).
Network-attached storage (NAS) is the most mature networked storage solution, and the only type of networked storage that allows data sharing by connected host systems. Originally deployed in data sharing environments, NetApp NAS solutions have become a preferred solution for enterprise applications and database environments where automated performance tuning and sophisticated data management capabilities can reduce costs, improve data availability, and simplify operations. NetApp iSCSI-based IP SAN solutions deliver the benefits of Fibre Channel SAN along with the advantages conferred by the maturity, familiarity, and pervasiveness of SCSI, IP networking, and Ethernet technologies. Most importantly, NetApp IP SAN solutions benefit from the company’s 14+ years of IP-based storage experience, ensuring that 5,000 NetApp customers using iSCSI today enjoy the benefits of a knowledgeable and reliable vendor partner. |
NetApp provides a full range of proven Fibre Channel (FC) SAN solutions for environments with the most demanding performance and availability requirements. |