Tech OnTap Newsletter January 2013

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January 2013

Happy New Year. May 2013 be your best year yet.  As we kick off the new year, it’s always fun to predict what will be hot in 2013 and beyond.  Our CTO, Jay Kidd, has a few predictions of his own. Are they in line with what you are thinking? The new FAS3200 is top of mind for a lot of our customers since we refreshed it late last year.  How will you utilize the increased processing power, memory, and capacity?  Also in this issue, we are featuring the ninth installment of our Back to Basics series, highlighting our SnapManager suite. What other topics would you like to see this year?  Send us a tweet. -Mina Eng, Tech OnTap Editor, @minayeng

New Cluster-Ready FAS3200 Steven Miller, Senior Technical Director and Platform Architect When NetApp set out to refresh the FAS3200, our primary design goal was to further optimize the new models for use with clustered Data ONTAP® and our broad portfolio of Flash offerings. For the FAS3220 and FAS3250, we’ve doubled the number of cores and NVMEM, more than doubled system memory, and also boosted the maximum drive count in each. The results speak for themselves, and we’ve got benchmarks to prove it. Full article View the video on our midrange platforms

Back to Basics: SnapManager Suite Santhosh Rao, Technical Marketing Engineer The SnapManager® suite provides data protection for leading Microsoft®, Oracle®, and SAP® applications as well as VMware® and Hyper-V™.  Learn how it works, use cases, how to deploy it, and more. Full article

Modernize Your Oracle Database Environment Learn how you can modernize your Oracle environment to Linux® on x86 without compromising performance, security, or reliability. Register now

The Future of the Disk Drive Larry Freeman, About Data Storage Today we are seeing traditional HDD storage arrays transition into hybrid Flash/SSD/HDD storage arrays.  Within five years we’ll see Flash being replaced by a new/better solid-state memory technology. Read Larry’s blog

Predictions for 2013 Jay Kidd, NetApp CTO Do you agree that big and bit players will jump into the all-flash array market with both feet in 2013?  See what else Jay predicts. View Jay's predictions

The Formula for Speed See how managing complex data helps the Sauber F1 Team innovate at 200 miles per hour. Learn more