NetAPP and Volante team for storage supply

Stan Beer
Wednesday, 25 January 2006 03:49

IT Industry - Deals

Storage vendor Network Appliance and IT services provider Volante (ASX:VGL) have announced an agreement to provide NetApp storage and data management technology to the Australian market.

Under the agreement, Volante will integrate NetApp’s unified storage technology with infrastructure solutions and services from its existing vendor and professional services portfolio. Volante and NetApp plan to deliver a complete enterprise storage solution offering continuous data protection, remote edge-to-core replication, data security, backup acceleration and data recovery.

“Our partnership with NetApp complements our total enterprise storage solution offerings by providing best of breed storage technologies that are compliant with both Federal Government, State Government and Corporate archive legislation. We also provide the means for our clients to enhance their DR/BC capabilities through the inherent replication and data migration facilities provided by NetApp," said Joff Pearce, Storage Practice Manager for Volante.

“NetApp provides an easy to manage feature rich disk solution to meet FC-SAN, IP-SAN and NAS requirements within a single box. No other vendor has this integrated mature technology on the market,”

“We’re pleased to be working with Volante, helping customers solve issues such as effective tiering of data, securing of information and managing branch offices,” said Simon Green, Area Director, South Asia, NetApp.

“Customers are thrilled that Volante and NetApp will offer complete easy-to-manage solutions around managing data in remote offices, data compliance, rapid data recovery and industry-leading data encryption – all with tight integration with key applications such as Oracle, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server.”

The initial technology focus areas for Volante include NetApp replication, data protection, data security and virtualisation technology.