Storage for Windows Environments

Want to spend less time managing your Windows® application data, mailboxes, and files while dramatically reducing costs? We can help. Consolidate all your Windows storage, simplify administration, and improve protection and availability of vital Windows business data with the NetApp® unified storage architecture.

Windows file servers and standalone storage for Windows applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint can cost you time and money. Consolidating and running your Windows applications in virtual machines backed by NetApp’s unified storage architecture can simplify your Windows environment and save you money. A single NetApp storage system meets all your needs, replacing multiple Windows file servers while simultaneously storing your Windows application data.

Key points:

• Reduce TCO by consolidating all your Windows file data as well as data from applications such as Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint®, and SQL Server® onto our unified storage architecture
• Increase storage utilization and staff and end-user productivity
• Effortlessly back up and recover Windows files, mailboxes, and databases in minutes
• Easily safeguard and replicate key data locally or remotely to achieve higher availability and reduce risk
• Grow or reduce storage volumes in seconds as your needs change

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Microsoft Exchange

Our storage solutions for Microsoft® Exchange can help you reduce costs, simplify data management and improve availability of your enterprise messaging and unified communications system.

For many organizations, enterprise messaging and unified communications based on Microsoft Exchange Server are viewed as mission-critical applications. By transitioning to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and NetApp storage, you can:

• Reduce costs and increase storage utilization
• Protect your Exchange Server data and create frequent and space-efficient backups
• As your messaging volume grows, easily add storage capacity without disrupting users
• Improve availability of your enterprise messaging and unified communications system and end-user productivity.
• Quickly re-establish your enterprise messaging and unified communications system in the event of a disaster

NetApp storage solutions for Exchange Server 2007 are included in the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) to meet Microsoft best practices, so you can deploy them with confidence.

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Single Mailbox Recovery

Integrate NetApp’s Single Mailbox Recovery software into your storage solution for Microsoft® Exchange Server data to retrieve individual messages, mailboxes, and attachments without disrupting other users.

Recovering single mailboxes or single messages from your Microsoft Exchange Server enterprise messaging system can be one of the most time-intensive tasks your administrators have to handle. Our Single Mailbox Recovery (SMBR) software enables your Exchange Server administrators to execute granular retrievals in minutes, compared to hours or days of manual effort.

Use SMBR to establish and verify e-mail evidence for compliance and legal requests. Retrieve just the relevant e-mails and attachments for human resources investigations.

Eliminate the extra steps and time required to mount each backup of your Microsoft Exchange Server data for searching specific e-mails. Search across all mailboxes in an archive or across several criteria with SMBR's Advanced Find feature.

Integrate with your existing tape environments. Restore both private and public Exchange information to an alternate location and eliminate the need for a recovery server.

• Eliminate time-consuming brick-level backups.
• Keep many Exchange backups online with minimal disk requirements for each incremental backup.
• Eliminate the need to maintain a separate recovery server and storage to restore single mailboxes.
• Restore individual Exchange items directly to a production Exchange Server or to an Outlook .PST file

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SQL Server

Reduce costs and simplify data management with SnapManager® for Microsoft® SQL Server™ by automating complex and time-consuming processes associated with backup, recovery, and database cloning activities.

SnapManager for Microsoft SQL Server is tightly integrated with Microsoft technology to help you streamline database storage management while simplifying storage layout planning, backup, and restore operations for SQL Server databases. SnapManager can save you time and money with our space-efficient backup capabilities and automated data management processes.

With SnapManager, you can dramatically reduce SQL Server data recovery times from hours to minutes, making it one of the fastest backup and recovery solutions available. You can also use SnapManager to automate backup, recovery, and database cloning. As a result, your IT staff can focus on other value-added activities.

• Reduce storage costs significantly with our space-efficient backup capabilities.
• Streamline data management and automate routine tasks to increase DBA productivity.
• Increase backup frequency to protect more data automatically without impacting performance.
• Restore a failed database of any size to full production in minutes.
• Create complete database clones in seconds without the need for additional storage space.

SnapManager for SQL Server is integrated with Protection Manager and SnapVault® to enable you to increase data protection by archiving backups as well as to restore them on lower-cost secondary storage.

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SharePoint

Reduce storage costs and streamline data management of your Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server data environment with NetApp® SnapManager® for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server helps you reduce storage costs and manage your growing SharePoint environment more efficiently. You can greatly simplify SharePoint data management and easily monitor the status and growth of your SharePoint Server farms across your entire enterprise.

With its browser-based user interface, SnapManager enables you to automate your data backup processes and other administrative functions. You can back up SharePoint Server data in seconds. With SnapManager, you can also recover any size database in minutes rather than hours from local or remote backups.

With SnapManager, you can also plan and implement a highly reliable disaster recovery strategy. Together with SnapMirror®, you can simplify remote replication of SharePoint Server data so it can be recovered rapidly in the event of a disaster.

• Reduce backup times to seconds and restore times to just minutes.
• Add storage capacity and expand volumes without taking Exchange Server or the NetApp storage system offline.
• Streamline management by automating common tasks to let your administrators spend less time on maintenance.
• Deploy into your existing infrastructure.
• Integrate SnapManager with your native Microsoft technology and frameworks.

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Virtualization

Virtualizing your servers is only half the story. According to both Gartner and IDC, you need to consider storage as part of the solution if you want to realize the promise of a truly virtualized environment.

Server virtualization has set the stage for those who are rethinking how they design and implement their IT solutions. Whether you’re looking for new ways to lower cost, improve scalability, or improve service level agreements (SLAs), integrating storage as part of the overall solution will enable you to:

• Maximize your Microsoft® Windows® Server managed virtual infrastructure with a cost-effective transition from DAS to networked storage
• Reduce server and storage provisioning to minutes
• Increase storage utilization above 70% with NetApp® thin provisioning¹
• Use 50% less storage by removing redundant data stored in production, backup, and DR using NetApp primary storage deduplication technology¹
• Realize as much as 50% savings in power, cooling, and space¹

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Files Services

Need to simplify your Windows® file services environment? We can help. Reduce costs, improve efficiency, and provide better availability of your vital Windows files with our scalable, high-performance storage platforms and Data ONTAP® software.

Server sprawl in your environment can cost you time and money. If you're coping with file server sprawl, poor utilization of servers and storage, and time-consuming backups, our Windows File Services solution can help.

Achieve significant reductions in your costs and administrative overhead by consolidating your existing Windows file servers on our solution.

• Consolidate Windows file servers and reduce complexity with minimal to no disruption of service.
• Simplify manageability and reduce time to successful deployment of storage and storage services.
• Increase storage utilization and staff and end-user productivity.
• Speed up Windows file backup from hours to minutes to enable more frequent and less disruptive backups.
• Keep up with your Windows file growth while lowering your costs.

Our solution integrates with your existing identification and authentication services, such as Active Directory, so you can consolidate with little effort. Migrate and manage your Windows files with Virtual File Manager with little to no disruption. And take advantage of a wide portfolio of certified solutions: antivirus, quota management, audit and logging, and more.

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