NetApp Solutions Available for Microsoft Windows Server 2008

NetApp is providing a comprehensive portfolio of
storage and data management solutions for Microsoft Windows Server
2008, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. These solutions
are designed for customers who use Windows Server and SQL Server to
support their core infrastructure, business intelligence, data
warehousing, and other mission-critical applications in both physical
and virtual environments. With solutions certified by Microsoft from
NetApp, customers will be able to easily transition to Windows Server
2008, Hyper-V, and SQL Server 2008 while maintaining simple, efficient,
and cost-effective storage. 

NetApp storage solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 include:

• Storage consolidation and migration solutions to enable customers
  to easily transition to SQL Server 2008, while reducing storage costs
  and significantly improving the manageability of their database
  environments.
• Application test and development solutions to allow software
  developers to create space-efficient copies of SQL Server databases,
  reducing the time and storage requirements needed to develop, test, and
  deploy their new applications.
• Business continuity solutions to provide highly available
  data storage and a rapid, cost-effective disaster recovery capability
  for all applications using SQL Server databases.
• Backup and recovery solutions to protect SQL Server data
  through the creation of frequent, space-efficient backups using NetApp
  Snapshot technology. This solution also enables customers to reliably
  recover data in seconds with NetApp SnapRestore.
• Scale-up and scale-out solutions to support the needs of
  enterprise customers requiring large, multiterabyte SQL Server
  databases.
• Consolidation of SQL Server data and elimination of unused pools of storage to reduce overall costs.

Customers’ storage management is simplified through automated
data management, rapid storage provisioning, and the ability to back up
and restore hundreds of databases residing on a single SQL Server
installation. Data availability is maximized with near-instantaneous
backups, rapid database recovery, and the ability to store multiple
online clones of SQL Server databases with minimal capacity overhead.

In addition, customers have the benefit of simple, flexible,
cost-effective replication and mirroring with NetApp SnapMirror.
NetApp storage solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 combine NetApp
SnapManager for SQL Server with other NetApp data management
technologies to enable enterprise customers to reduce costs, simplify
management, and increase data availability for SQL Server environments.

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