NETAPP AND INTEL LEAD EVOLUTION TO 10 GIGABIT UNIFIED ETHERNET NETWORKING
Sydney, AUSTRALIA – 28 July 2010
– NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced it will support the Intel®
Ethernet X520 family of SFP+10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server
adapters. This extends NetApp’s ecosystem of tested Ethernet solutions
and offers customers more ways to deploy an end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) infrastructure.
Together, NetApp and Intel offer customers tested options to transition
from a Fibre Channel infrastructure to a high-performance FCoE
infrastructure.
10GbE unified networking provides a simple, flexible, and
well-understood fabric for today’s dynamic data centres and lays the
groundwork for new computing models, including cloud computing. With long histories of leadership in Ethernet storage
and networking, NetApp and Intel are working together to help lead the
transition to a unified data centre on 10GbE. Both companies are early
supporters of FCoE. NetApp is the first storage vendor to support
native FCoE storage, and Intel is the first Ethernet adapter vendor to
support Open FCoE (
www.open-fcoe.org), which enables FCoE in standard 10GbE adapters.
“NetApp’s
core belief is that unified storage helps our customers achieve
business breakthroughs by giving them a universal storage solution to
support all aspects of their business,” said Patrick Rogers, vice
president of Solutions and Alliances at NetApp. “By enhancing our
product portfolio with supported 10GbE and Open FCoE products from
Intel, we’re giving customers the flexibility they need to set up
unified Ethernet solutions in their existing environments and realise
substantial benefits in cost reduction, ease of use and efficiency.”
“It is exciting to see NetApp support Intel technology to advance
10GbE and Open FCoE and help customers consolidate their data centres,”
said Tom Swinford, vice president and general manager, LAN Access
Division, Intel Corporation. “The Intel Ethernet X520 family of 10GbE
server adapters makes it easier for customers to move to a single
platform, reduce the cost of building out, and maintain their storage
network.”
NetApp® unified storage
supports customers’ existing Fibre Channel investments as well as
FCoE, iSCSI, and NAS, allowing them to take a phased approach to
consolidating their data centres around Ethernet. This single platform
approach allows customers to transition their existing Fibre Channel
infrastructure with new, cost-effective FCoE technology, helping them
consolidate and simplify their storage infrastructure. This can reduce
the amount of storage hardware customers need in their data centre,
which in turn can lead to significant reductions in power use and
administrative overhead. By working with Intel, NetApp hopes to make
it even easier for customers to consolidate around 10GbE and FCoE by
working with vendor technology they already know and trust.
Customers such as Databasement, a leading cloud-based storage
provider, are achieving operational and capital savings, as well as
enhanced performance with NetApp unified storage and FCoE. Since
Databasement serves a diverse set of clients, all with different needs
and price points for performance, availability and capacity, the
company looked to NetApp and its solutions partners to help safeguard
and simplify its customers’ data storage. NetApp helped, Databasement
easily manage any protocol and offer its customers 10GbE FCoE as a
high-performance yet low-cost option without deploying additional
hardware or affecting service levels.
“Since Databasement’s founding in 2001, NetApp has been one of the
most important technologies in our portfolio, providing the flexibility
and efficiency we need to be able to keep costs down and performance up
and provide our customers with a full range of storage options,” said
Rob Christ, Databasement’s founder and director. “Regardless of what
setup the customer has, we can use IP-based protocols such as iSCSI and
FCoE on our side to keep costs down. The more options we can provide
our customers, the better we’re able to serve their needs, and that’s
why we rely on NetApp’s unified storage.”
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