With the NetApp® V-Series product line, you can consolidate your mission-critical data across your
enterprise no matter how big your company is or how many different storage platforms you have. Once you
consolidate, you can more efficiently protect and recover your mission-critical data across your enterprise.

With Data ONTAP® 7G software, you can support an expanded set of business applications. Their
software makes this possible by dynamically virtualizing storage throughout your existing Fibre Channel
SAN infrastructure. NetApp unifies all your block and file storage networking paradigms under a common
architecture. NetApp also gives you a complete suite of advanced tools to manage your consolidated data
.
NetApp’s V-series open storage controllers give you advanced data management and storage efficiency
capabilities in multiprotocol, multivendor environments.

Get advanced storage efficiency, data protection, and data management features while maintaining your
current storage investments. V-Series open storage controllers let you manage disk arrays from EMC, IBM,
Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, and other major storage vendors as if they were NetApp® storage.
The current generation of NetApp disk shelves can also be used with V-Series controllers, giving you more
choice and flexibility for capacity expansion.

Dramatically increase your disk utilization and reclaim stranded capacity with thin provisioning and
deduplication for primary storage, not just secondary storage.

• Use Snapshot™ software, the original and most functional point-in-time copy technology, to protect
  your data with no performance impact and minimal consumption of storage space.
  
• Replicate data across your global network at high speeds simply, efficiently, and flexibly with
  SnapMirror® for disaster recovery.
  
• Accelerate application development and testing by using FlexClone® technology to instantly replicate
  data volumes and data sets as transparent, virtual copies. NetApp clones increase productivity and
  save storage space without compromising performance.
  
• Take advantage of these features whether you use the V-Series to provide file services, to store
  block-based data, or both. V-Series controllers give you this flexibility with native support for
  FC SAN, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, and CIFS protocols
  .

NetApp Deduplication

NetApp deduplication is a fundamental component of NetApp’s core operating architecture - Data
ONTAP®. NetApp deduplication is the first that can be used broadly across many applications, including
primary data, backup data, and archival data.

NetApp deduplication combines the benefits of granularity, performance, and resiliency to provide you with a
significant advantage in the race to provide for ever-increasing storage capacity demands.

Data deduplication is an important new technology in your struggle to control data proliferation. The average
UNIX® or Windows® disk volume contains thousands or even millions of duplicate data objects. As data is
created, distributed, backed up, and archived, duplicate data objects are stored unabated across all storage
tiers. The end result is inefficient utilization of data storage resources.