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But CITC lacked the budget for a second NetApp Filer system, and the company preferred not to be overly tied into any specific hardware vendor.

For example, DataFabric Manager can help an enterprise use existing resources through remote, centralized management of hundreds of appliances, NetApp filers and clustered configurations.

Network Appliance's NAS solution is their NetApp Filer product.

By integrating VERITAS Cluster Server with NetApp Filers running NetApp Clustered Failover software, customers can achieve continuous access to information at the application level and the data storage level, thus increasing the overall information availability for their business.

For Yahoo, the solution came in the form of NetApp filers, which allowed the company to add server space at a dizzying rate.

NetApp's Enterprise Vault, for example, manages Exchange data stores on NetApp Filers.

Internet security company Symantec Corp has launched new versions of its AntiVirus for NetApp Filers and AntiVirus for Network Appliance NetCache software packages.

NetApp storage platforms (NetApp filers, Nearstore, and NetCache appliances) are coupled with powerful data management, content distribution, and reporting software offering seamless storage management from the corporate data center to the remote office.

The two will come up with technology that enables users to reconfigure Fibre Channel networks (often called fabrics) on the fly using NetApp filers and Brocade switches.

Consolidating backups with NearStore improves data protection management by enabling customers to back up both NetApp filers and non-NetApp systems to one appliance before archiving to tape.

The Input report found that SAN-attached storage typically takes four hours to scale up by 200GB, compared with less than 10 minutes for NetApp Filers.