NTAP adds another link to its value chain:
(Thanks to kas1 for finding this early.)
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Network Appliance and Oracle Team to Deliver Network Storage Solution for Oracle8i™ Appliance
NetApp® Solutions Offer Simple, Always Available Appliance Architecture to Extend Oracle8i Appliance Paradigm
Sunnyvale, CA -- January 4, 2000 -- Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leading provider of network-attached data access and management solutions, today announced they will integrate NetApp data management appliances, also known as "filers", for use with the Oracle8i Appliance from Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL), the number one choice for e-business.
The Oracle8i Appliance provides the most cost effective and reliable way to deploy Oracle's flagship Internet server with significantly less complexity than on general-purpose servers. The integration will enable Oracle8i Appliance users to benefit from higher-speed data access and reduced data downtime via Network Appliance™ solutions — which have demonstrated uptime greater than
99.99 percent.
In September of 1997, Network Appliance and Oracle announced the first-ever certification by the leading database vendor for a networked storage solution. Just as then, this will provide new and innovative solutions to the increasingly complex and important problem of managing database storage. As the use of e-commerce and the Internet continue to grow, the need for underlying database storage is exploding. Oracle and NetApp have a solid history of providing customers with database environments that are highly available, extremely reliable and very simple to manage and expand.
"Oracle is committed to delivering simple, affordable and manageable solutions to meet the needs of today's Internet economy," said Kevin Walsh, Vice President, Appliances, Oracle. "Network Appliance's network storage solutions and Oracle have been tremendously successful in meeting the needs of our joint customers. Oracle and Network Appliance will work together to extend ease of use, high data availability and reliable access to Oracle8i Appliance users."
"Today's information-rich environment requires storage solutions that can be quickly installed and easily administered without sacrificing performance integrity — regardless whether you are an enterprise or workgroup," said Dan Warmenhoven, President and CEO of Network Appliance. "NetApp's easy to install, easy to administer and always available data management solutions combined with the Oracle8i Appliance are a natural fit for businesses needing to scale quickly in this internet-speed world."
Unique features of NetApp data management solutions include:
Snapshot™ technology that maintains multiple backups online to ensure consistent images of databases and provide read-only copies of databases for backup, queries, decision support and report generation. All this is accomplished without expensive disk mirroring or performance degradation.
SnapMirror™ software provides remote mirroring of data for quick disaster recovery, offline backup and data sharing.
SnapRestore™ software allows any system to revert back to a specified Snapshot for instant recovery. Recovery of multi-terabyte-sized databases can now be done in minutes rather than hours without ever going to tape
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, a veteran in network file serving and caching, has been providing data access solutions since 1992. Major corporations and ISPs, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions. NetApp's file servers ("filers") and Internet caching solutions (NetCache™ appliances) deliver fast, simple, reliable and cost-effective access to network-stored data and enable simultaneous shared file services for UNIX®, Windows NT® and the World Wide Web.
The company pioneered the concept of the "network appliance," an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. Network Appliance filers and NetCache appliances are based on the Company's innovative data access software known as Data ONTAP™ operating system and standards-compliant hardware.
Press Contacts:
Adam Trunkey
Network Appliance, Inc.
(408) 822-6314
atrunkey@netapp.com
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