Tech OnTap Newsletter December 2011

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December 2011

FAS6200 Performance & Scalability FAS2240 An Inside Look FAS3200 Boosts Expandability NetApp Innovation Awards Back to Basics: FlexClone Tech OnTap Archive

Mina Eng Tech OnTap Editor

Congratulations to our 2011 survey winners.  Edmond, Vamshi, and Edward are all enjoying their new iPad® 2s.  Thank you again to those who provided us their input. As we wrap up 2011, it's a good time to look back at some of our most popular articles of the year. It turns out that our readers also really like our Back to Basics series.  We have included the first five chapters in this issue. We will be sure to do more next year. Have a fantastic 2012.

FAS6200 Running Data ONTAP 8 Cluster-Mode: Performance and Scalability Chris Lemmons, Senior Manager, Workload Engineering Bhavik Desai, Performance Engineer In recent benchmarks, a cluster of FAS6240 systems delivered over 1.5 million SPECsfs2008 NFS ops/sec with 1.5 millisecond overall response time.  Find out how NetApp® delivers HPC-level performance in a unified storage platform with the scalability, storage efficiency, integrated data protection, and nonstop operations that enterprise environments require. More

NetApp Innovation Awards 2012 Are you an IT innovator?  Are you using technology to make IT more proactive, productive, and essential to your business? Nominate yourself or your company for the 2012 NetApp Innovation Awards. How do you use NetApp technology to achieve a positive business impact? Does your team go home early because of the efficiencies you've gained? Show us your IT innovation.  Nominations Open Through January 11, 2012

FAS2240: An Inside Look A Peek Under the Hood of the FAS6200 FAS3200 Boosts Expandability Making the Move from FC to SAS Storage The Four Fundamental Cloud Elements

Chapter 1: Thin Provisioning Chapter 2: Deduplication Chapter 3: FlexClone Chapter 4: Volume SnapMirror Chapter 5: RAID-DP