NetApp
SAN Recovery - NetApp
NetApp, formerly known as Network Appliance, is a computer storage and data management company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company was founded in 1992 by David Hitz, James Lau, and Michael Malcolm.
NetApp gained popularity because of the widespread adoption of network attached storage (NAS) architecture as an alternative to storage area network (SAN) architecture.
NetApp Flier
NetApp flier, also known as NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS), is NetApp’s flagship NAS device. This device functions as an enterprise-class SAN as well as a networked storage appliance. It can provide storage functionality over a network using different file-based protocols such as NFS, CIFS, FTP, TFTP, and HTTP. NetApp fliers also serve data over block-based protocols such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI.
The main difference between NetApp flier and other similar products is that NetApp fliers use highly customized commodity hardware and proprietary Data ONTAP operating system, specifically designed for storage serving functionality. Most of the other fliers available in the market use commodity computers with operating systems such as MS Windows Storage Server or tuned Linux.
Other Important Products/Achievements
In 2006, NetApp introduced virtual tape library (VTL) for magnetic tape data storage virtualization. In 2007, NetApp launched its own de-duplication technology, named NetApp Dedupe for all NetApp fliers. Other important software products include Topio Software and Onaro. Topio helps replicate, recover and protect data over any distance regardless of the underlying server or storage infrastructure. Onaro is a form of storage service management software.
