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Storage area networks (SANs) have been real-world proven to lower the total cost of ownership and increase the performance and availability of corporate storage resources. Because of this, SANs based on Fibre Channel technology have become standard features in many corporate data centers.

NetApp IP SAN solutions deliver the competitive advantages of a Fibre Channel SAN along with the maturity, familiarity, functionality, and pervasiveness of SCSI, IP networking, and Ethernet technologies. Most importantly, NetApp IP SAN solutions benefit from NetApp's 10+ years of IP-based storage experience, ensuring that over 2000 NetApp customers using iSCSI today accrue the benefits of a knowledgeable and reliable vendor partner.

NetApp has teamed with a variety of industry-leading partners to provide certified, fully supported iSCSI solutions for AIX®, HP-UX®, Linux®, NetWare™, Solaris™, and Microsoft® Windows® environments.

By enabling storage consolidation and centralized administration, NetApp IP SAN solutions permit organizations to network their enterprise data assets, improving enterprise data accessibility and availability and providing greater application uptime than direct-attached storage. Because all NetApp solutions are founded on a single, heterogeneous platform using industry-standard protocols, NetApp IP SAN solutions leverage existing investments to bolster infrastructure interoperability. And they are easily extended to provide advanced data protection, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance capabilities.

• Superior storage system performance
• Improved data availability and application uptime
• Comprehensive data protection enabled
• Streamlined data storage infrastructure and management
• Maximized existing investments and resources
• Reduced technology and cost limitations