As many of our customers know and to be fair anyone who has had a look at our website realise we like to use NetApp storage with our clients.

But Why?

There are many reasons, but mainly our clients no longer wanted just spinning disk for their enterprise storage solutions, they wanted something with some intelligence, something that not only added capacity, but something that added some real improvements in service and added functionality that improved their entire storage infrastructure and management.

In our opinion NetApp lead the way in this but also importantly for many of our clients NetApp also have outstanding integration with Microsoft’s technology and this was recently highlighted by NetApp been awarded as Microsoft’s storage solution partner for 2009, interestingly specifically around Hyper-V and the value they add to this virtualisation platform.

if you want to read a bit more about this then check out NetApp’s website http://www.netapp.com/us/solutions/solution-partners/global-alliance/microsoft-partnership.html 

NetApp are so confident about the value they add to a virtual platform they run a 50% guarantee programme, which they commit to guaranteeing you using 50% less storage on a NetApp platform for virtualisation than on competitive vendors.

http://www.netapp.com/us/solutions/infrastructure/virtualization/guarantee.html

so if you are virtualising on Hyper-V or VmWare or Citrix, then check them out or have a word with Gardner and come in and see this stuff in action.