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Archive for June, 2011
2nd Consecutive Time NetApp Leads Enterprise Array Quality Awards
Jun 24th
Just incase you needed any more assurance about the quality of our enterprise array products, here’s some “sweet” news you can use.
NetApp consultancy, deployment and maintenance available in Nigeria via 24Cube Nigeria.
24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria backed by the full support of NetApp.
In the six edition of the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards for enterprise arrays, NetApp finishes first. The Quality Awards recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified readers who assess products in five main categories: sales-force competence, initial product quality, product features, product reliability and technical support. Products are rated on a scale of 1.00 to 8.00, where 8.00 is the best score. A total of 441 respondents provided 727 system evaluations.
This is the second consecutive time NetApp has finished first, after sharing top honors with EMC on the fourth edition of the Quality Awards. The strong showing from NetApp is further proof of NetApp’s strength in Enterprise SAN. NetApp had an overall score of 6.71 by taking top honors in four (sales force competence, initial product quality, product features, technical support) of the five rating categories. Hitachi Data Systems finished second, and EMC and IBM were tied for third.
A strong indicator of product satisfaction is a customer’s willingness to make the same purchase all over again. When that question was asked on the survey, NetApp was the highest rated with 92% of the respondents saying they would purchase NetApp again.
Go Further, Faster More Efficiently with NetApp — NetApp — Corporate
Jun 24th
Network Appliance is a leading provider of innovative data management solutions that simplify the complexity of storing, managing, protecting, and retaining enterprise data. Market leaders around the world choose NetApp to help them reduce cost, minimize risk, and adapt to change. 24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria backed by the full support of NetApp.
Compare 2 different NetApp Solutions with the FAS2000
Jun 24th
Whether you are responsible for a remote or branch office, a department, or a midsized enterprise, you are challenged more than ever before by shrinking budgets, overextended staff, and the need to do more with less. These challenges, coupled with the increasing complexity of your Windows® environment, can quickly eat into your budget and affect your productivity.
NetApp® FAS2000 systems provide a powerful range of technologies and features based on Data ONTAP® to help increase storage utilization and the efficiency of your system and storage administrators.
With new powerful FAS2040 systems and our preconfigured FAS2020 systems that include high-capacity drives at attractive prices, you can pick the perfect balance of price, performance, and features that best fits your needs.
Our common end-to-end unified storage architecture and breadth of optional software available via easy to deploy software packs makes it possible for you to add functionality to our systems quickly. Our new system manager based on Windows can cut setup time to under one hour.
Managing server and application sprawl on a shoestring budget is now a lot easier with the NetApp FAS2000 series.
FAS2050 |
FAS2040 |
FAS2020 |
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| Application Environments | Mid-sized Enterprises (MSE), remote or branch offices (ROBO), and departments of large enterprises | ||
| Ideal for | Specialized storage deployments | Higher performance or capacity needs | Value oriented deployments |
| Storage Networking Support | FC SAN, IP SAN, NAS, and FCoE | ||
| Full Hardware Redundancy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max. Raw Capacity | 104TB | 136TB | 68TB |
| Max. Disk Drives | 104 | 136 | 68 |
| Disk Drive Types | SAS, FC or SATA | ||
| Memory | 4GB | 8GB | 2GB |
| Controller Form Factor | 1 or 2 controllers in a single 4U chassis | 1 or 2 controllers in a single 2U chassis | 1 or 2 controllers in a single 2U chassis |
| Gigabit Ethernet
Onboard ports Max. ports |
4 8 |
8 8 |
4 4 |
| Fiber Channel
Onboard ports Max. ports |
4 8 |
4 4 |
4 4 |
| Onboard SAS ports
Max. SAS ports |
0
4 |
2
2 |
N/A
N/A |
| PCI Expansion Slots
10GbE Support FCoE Support Multipath Capacity Expansion |
2 PCI express
? ? ? |
N/A
N/A N/A N/A |
N/A
N/A N/A N/A |
Network Appliance is a leading provider of innovative data management solutions that simplify the complexity of storing, managing, protecting, and retaining enterprise data. Market leaders around the world choose NetApp to help them reduce cost, minimize risk, and adapt to change. 24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria backed by the full support of NetApp.
Give us a call today and let’s talk about your IT and backup needs 08033051621
netapp@24cube.co.uk
NIGERIA : Need a reason to choose NetApp storage consolIdatIon for WIndows fIle servIng? How about 10?
Jun 24th
Need a reason to choose NetApp storage consolIdatIon for wIndows fIle servIng in NIgeria?
How about 10?
Network Appliance is a leading provider of innovative data management solutions that simplify the complexity of storing, managing, protecting, and retaining enterprise data. Market leaders around the world choose NetApp to help them reduce cost, minimize risk, and adapt to change. 24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria backed by the full support of NetApp.
Save Money
1. radically reduce your Microsoft® Windows® file server count. NetApp consolidated file serving and home directory storage improve your bottom line. You get more efficient storage utilization, fewer servers to manage, and fewer software upgrades. And you can expand storage quickly and easily, when you need it, at the lowest incremental cost.
2. reduce management overhead.
NetApp management applications help you minimize administrative overhead for storage, backup, restore, and disaster recovery. NetApp data management solutions also enable users to restore their online files without administrator help.
3. Increase your organization’s productivity. NetApp enables more efficient data sharing throughout the enterprise, across any mix of computing platforms and protocols. How? NetApp storage systems can support additional protocols, applications, and users, at a lower incremental cost. With a simplified architecture and fewer servers to manage, your administrators can focus on tasks that add value for users.
AchIeve the performance and relIabIlIty your busIness needs
4. get data faster. Optimized for serving Windows data, NetApp solutions deliver faster response times and greater throughput than the traditional Windows file server infrastructure.
5. Keep your business up and running.
NetApp solutions deliver high availability and reliability. Rapid restores and instantaneous backups reduce downtime— planned and unplanned—and maximize access to data.
6. protect your data. NetApp data protection solutions simplify backup, reduce recovery time, and reduce the risk of unrecoverable data, with inherent support for thirdparty antivirus software.
7. solve real business problems with advanced technology. Optimize and innovate with NetApp storage solutions that provide a complete data management, distribution, and retention strategy for
the enterprise. Your business operations benefit from more frequent, instantaneous, non disruptive backups, mirroring, and restores—with lower overhead and no performance degradation.
GaIn an InnovatIve busIness partner
8. use the best and the brightest.
NetApp is recognized as a storage industry innovator, with an architecture that delivers maximum performance, simplicity, and scalability. NetApp also enables multitiered storage; data resides at the optimal cost per megabyte based on its value to your organization.
9. future-proof your investment.
Business environments change. Whatever your technology mix—NAS or SAN (including iSCSI), Windows, UNIX®, or Linux®—you can increase future flexibility with innova tive storage solutions from NetApp.
10. enterprise services see you through.
NetApp delivers global, enterprise grade services and support to help ensure your longterm success, free up your internal resources, minimize disruption, and maximize uptime. NetApp offers services and support programs to complement every phase of your solution, from evaluation within your environment to installation, including services to maximize your return on investment through the life of ownership.
Give us a call today and let’s talk about your IT and backup needs 08033051621
netapp@24cube.co.uk
NETAPP SOLUTIONS IN NIGERIA – EFFICIENT IT MANAGEMENT
Jun 24th
How are you managing your IT infrastructure ?
NetApp can help and the solutions are now more affordable and available than ever before.
24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria.
Some facts about NetApp in Nigeria
NetApp range of storage and backup solutions is by far the industry leader her in Nigeria.
8 out of the top 10 banks in Nigeria use NetApp
The Apex bank, CBN uses NetApp.
NetApp is used by almost all the top GSM companies in Nigeria
It has the ability to backup your entire network without any agent based installation on your clients machines.
NetApp® solutions are extremely user friendly, easy to manage, and quick to deploy, offering increased availability with fewer IT resources. This means that they dramatically lower the lifetime total cost of ownership. Where others manage complexity, NetApp simply eliminates it.
In the name NetApp Unified Storage Architecture, “unified” refers to a family of storage systems that simultaneously supports SAN, NAS, and iSCSI across many operating environments (VMware®, Windows®, and UNIX®, to name a few). This single architecture provides access to data by using industry standard protocols, including NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FCP, SCSI, FTP, and HTTP. As shown in Figure 1, connectivity options include standard Ethernet (10/100/1000), Fibre Channel (1, 2, or 4 Gb/sec), and SCSI (for tape backup only). Additionally, all systems can be configured with high-performance Fibre Channel disk for primary storage applications, low-cost SATA disk for secondary applications (backup, archive, and so on), or a mix of both.
Give us a call today and let’s talk about your IT and backup needs 08033051621
netapp@24cube.co.uk