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| NetApp Supports Next-Generation SAN Technology Network Appliance, Inc. has announced its storage solutions will now support 4Gb Fibre Channel. 4Gb FC combined with NetApp unified storage systems and data management software gives customers a solution for managing large and ever growing amounts of data. NetApp SAN storage systems using 4Gb FC are suited for customers that need to quickly develop, compute, transfer, or analyze large amounts of data, such as backup to disk, streaming video on demand, modeling and rendering, and large databases with extreme performance for faster time-to-solutions. Network Appliance provides comprehensive support for 4Gb FC SAN solutions for Solaris and in calendar Q2 2006 for Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, VMware, and NetWare environments. In addition, NetApp sells or supports 4Gb HBAs from Emulex and Qlogic and 4Gb switches from Brocade, Cisco, and McData. The award-winning NetApp FAS3000 and NetApp V3000 support 4Gb FC SANs, and are backward compatible with 2Gb, providing existing customers with investment protection compared to competing solutions that require new system upgrades. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |