Scale-Out Storage - The Next Frontier in Enterprise Data Management

Businesses today struggle with the increasing amount of data that they need to store, manage, and protect. Growing competitive pressures and 24-hour business cycles require that your business-critical processes and data remain accessible around the clock-making planned downtime difficult or impossible. As the IT landscape continues to change at a rapid pace, scale-out is becoming the best way to meet storage performance, capacity, and availability demands, both for enterprise IT deployments and the cloud. This book explores how scaleout storage can help you eliminate downtime, enhance storage efficiency and data protection, and increase scalability while simplifying management. NetApp clustered Data ONTAP, in particular, offers unique scale-out capabilities that can help you accelerate your business, increase automation, reduce the workload on your IT staff, and simplify deployment for both private and public clouds.