NetApp Data ONTAP 8 Operating System

Achieve new levels of scalability and storage flexibility, resulting in lowering of TCO, while providing maximizing business agility and 24x7 business continuity.

Accelerate your move to a service-oriented architecture with Data ONTAP® 8, which enables service levels across a diverse set of applications and extends data center virtualization. Data ONTAP 8 provides a single unified, scalable platform to address your NAS, SAN, multitier, multiprotocol, multi-tenant virtualized environments.

Achieve a level of efficiency unmatched in the industry. With native deduplication support on primary and secondary storage in addition to thin provisioning, compression, and efficient hardware, achieve the higher levels of asset utilization. Reduce not only space, but also power and cooling requirements:

• Reduce disk purchases by 2-3X
• Manage 2-3X storage per admin
• Reclaim 35% disk space on third-party storage

With a single system management framework and simplified provisioning environment, bring new applications to market faster, while making sure of superior lifecycle and capacity management:

• Ability to cut provisioning time by 90%
• Nondisruptively move data for load balancing or dynamic scalability
• Can cut dev and test time in half