Tech OnTap Newsletter September 2013

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September 2013

In the past few issues, we’ve  focused on the clustered Data ONTAP® operating system, including an introduction to release 8.2 and an in-depth look at nondisruptive operations.  This month we examine how clustered Data ONTAP makes you and your storage more productive in "Storage Efficiency in Clustered Data ONTAP." We also look at pNFS, a standard for accelerating shared data access, in "NetApp and Red Hat Collaborate on pNFS." If you find an article useful, please share it with your colleagues and peers. -Mina Eng, Tech OnTap Editor, @minayeng

Storage Efficiency in Clustered Data ONTAP Julian Cates, Technical Marketing Engineer Clustered Data ONTAP makes both you and your storage infrastructure more productive and more efficient. The latest release takes storage efficiency to the next level, with features such as SnapVault® technology and enhancements to existing capabilities. Find out how to take advantage of thin provisioning, deduplication, compression, cloning, and thin replication to achieve new levels of data reduction in your clustered storage environment. Full article

NetApp and Red Hat Collaborate on pNFS Pranoop Erasani, Technical Director, NFS Justin Parisi, Technical Marketing Engineer pNFS is a standard for accelerating shared data access for a variety of technical, business, and financial applications. Learn how it works and how NetApp and Red Hat collaborated with the upstream community to deliver the first end-to-end pNFS solution. Full article

Clustered Data ONTAP QoS: Performance Isolation for Multi-Tenant Environments Mike McNamara, SANbyte Learn how the new QoS feature in clustered Data ONTAP can be used to limit the storage resources a workload consumes. Read Mike’s blog

NetApp 360 Blog: Making Sense of Major Cloud Inhibitors Brad Nisbet, Cloud Make a successful transition to the cloud by understanding the risks and having a clear strategy. Read Brad’s blog

Storage Efficiency Blueprint Explore our Interactive Efficiency Blueprint to see how NetApp can help you save storage capacity and reduce costs. Learn more

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