NetApp, The New Sharing Platforms

June 2013

Storage giant NetApp, as an effort to reduce their legal and business risks, the Enterprises of today continue to struggle with improving their data management. They need to do this all the while making sure that the cost of managing data which is unstructured remains managed. To meet with the needs of the customers Network Appliance, Inc has introduced three NetApp® Information Server 1200 (IS1200) platforms:  the IS1200-FRM (File Reporting and Migration), the IS1200-SA (Search Appliance), and the IS1200-ECS (Enterprise Content Services). The core IS1200 architecture is used to build these platforms, and share a common framework that provides customers with visibility into their data at as granular a level as required, at the metadata or full content level. Each product is optimized to meet distinct customer challenges around reducing business and compliance risk, reducing storage and data-management costs, and searching quickly through large storage repositories to help customers find a “needle in the haystack.” The new products were available in the United States and Europe in December 2006 and were rolled out globally in February 2007.

The new 1200 platforms provided the customers with simplified management via effective data-management processes to help develop highly effective policies aligned with the business value of data. Customers were also able to better control risk with improved control over their unstructured data, providing intelligence and consistency to policy-based search, move, delete, and/or copy operations across the enterprise. In addition the IS1200 platforms helped customers control the growing cost of storage through implementing tiered storage, reduce costs of actions such as data discovery, and addressed adherence to regulatory compliance.