Backup & Recovery
There are many vendors playing in the backup and recovery space. Business continuity planning continues to increase in importance in the small and medium sized organisation space as well as large scale enterprises. NetApp’s proposition is compelling and the elevator pitch presented here describes some of the key arguments for positioning NetApp solutions. For further details, please speak to one of Avnet’s NetApp Business Development team.
What does NetApp deliver?
Optimise and deduplicate backups for any business application, virtual server, or storage array to accelerate recovery and deliver unparalleled efficiency and cost savings.
How does NetApp deliver this?
Solving the key challenges that organisations face when implementing and upgrading backup and recovery strategies. NetApp solutions use industry-leading hardware and software to meet customer-specific business drivers and deliver:
- Faster backup and restore
- No-cost deduplication to enable higher storage utilisation
- Simplified deployment and management
- Increased reliability
- Lower cost of ownership.
What does this mean to customers?
You can use NetApp’s portfolio of backup solutions to add significant value across the data center and easily integrate into your existing strategy.
For multivendor (traditional backup application) environments, you get:
- 10x faster backups through enterprise-class performance and scale
- 95% (20:1 reduction) lower capacity requirements through no-cost deduplication
- 50% less tape infrastructure through efficient tape media and drive usage
- 10x faster restores (seconds versus hours) through integration with major backup applications
- A highly scalable, modular design that is simple to use, monitor, and upgrade all based on 100% native technology.
For NetApp storage environments, you can also achieve:
- 10x faster backups and restores - from hours to minutes - through integration with key business applications and virtual server environments
- 90% lower disk backup capacity requirements through incremental-only snapshot replication and deduplication (10:1)
- 63% savings over traditional tape-based backups
- 75% reduction in management costs through process automation and improved reliability
- Comprehensive protection through automatic discovery of unprotected volumes and application-specific, policy-based backup management for thousands of data sets.



