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NetApp Takes Suncorp to the Cloud
Suncorp Unifies Its Storage Environment and Demonstrates Seamless Integration of NetApp, Cisco, and VMware Technologies
| Source: NetApp, Inc.
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - October 19, 2009) - NetApp (NASDAQ : NTAP ) announced today that
Suncorp, a leading Australian diversified financial services company, has
consolidated its storage environment and implemented an IT-as-a-service
model based on the NetApp® dynamic data center. The overhaul has allowed
Suncorp to standardize management of its storage environment, enabling
greater storage efficiency and improving service levels across its
business.
"We decided it was time to consolidate and standardize our storage
environment with NetApp, as our annual storage growth was unsustainable,"
said Jeff Smith, Group Executive Business Technology of Suncorp.
Suncorp is deploying NetApp FAS6070, FAS6080, and FAS6030 systems;
VMware®; and NetApp storage virtualization technologies for its storage,
network, and hosting infrastructure. The company is also simplifying
administration, provisioning, and monitoring of its storage environment
with SnapDrive®, SnapManager®, SnapVault®, SnapMirror®, Operations
Manager, MultiStore®, and FlexClone®.
The NetApp implementation has allowed Suncorp to reduce its data centers
from three locations to two, with the preproduction and production data
centers linked by IP SAN. Suncorp is also one of the first customers in the
world to virtualize its core and aggregation layers with Cisco Nexus 7000
switches.
"We worked with NetApp to create a best practice design for our storage
infrastructure through the use of virtualization," said Smith. "By
implementing NetApp, Cisco, and VMware technology, we have increased our
storage efficiency, introduced greater flexibility, and reduced our total
IT costs. We have also improved our ability to develop and bring new
product and service applications to market and respond to customer demands
quickly."
"NetApp demonstrated the importance of using a standards-based approach for
the administration of a storage environment to deliver greater storage
efficiencies, reduce the cost of ownership, and enable business
breakthroughs," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and
Alliances at NetApp. "Our collaboration with Suncorp is a shining example
of how our innovative technologies continue to meet the market's demand for
solutions that address real business challenges."
For more information on how NetApp can help companies transform their data
centers, visit http://cloud.netapp.com.
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