Network Appliance and Progress Software Provide Integrated Solution for Database Environments
NetApp® Filers with 99.99% Uptime are the Only Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Products Officially Tested for Use with Progress® RDBMS Software
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 2001-- Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP - news), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, and the Progress Company, an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS - news) and a leading supplier of e-business technology and services, announced today announced Network Appliance(TM) storage solutions have passed the reliability tests for use in Progress RDBMS Version 9.1C environments. Network Appliance storage appliances are currently the only network-attached storage (NAS) solutions to be officially tested by Progress Software for use with its RDBMS products. Progress testing enables Network Appliance to expand its presence into more database management solutions, further enhancing the Network Appliance enterprise portfolio and for the first time opening up new market segments for NetApp Center-to-Edge(TM) solutions with Progress database customers.
The Network Appliance and Progress solution combines the simplicity and power of NetApp Center-to-Edge storage solutions with Progress software's ability to meet the demanding database requirements of Internet and enterprise-based business applications that automate internal, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer sales, service, and operational processes. The synergy between Network Appliance and Progress products delivers a quantum leap in meeting customer demand for storage consolidation, scalability, performance, manageability, availability, and productivity.
Optimized exclusively for network data access and retrieval, NetApp filers provide industry-leading performance, scalability, reliability, and ease-of-management for UNIX® and Windows NT® environments as well as the Internet.
``Progress provides a unique software framework and Network Appliance provides a unique storage infrastructure for advanced application environments. We are pleased to satisfy the many customer requests we have received to integrate our advanced technologies,'' said Rich Clifton, vice president of Commercial Solutions at Network Appliance. ``Progress applications, with their outstanding portability, can now leverage the power of Network Appliance's industry-leading storage technologies such as Snapshots(TM), data sharing, multiprotocol support, automated disk layouts, and enhanced content delivery. This synergy will enable rapid deployment, expansion, advanced ASP functionality, lower costs, and a new level of investment protection in mission-critical environments.''
``Applications must perform in complex and diverse enterprise and Web-centric computing environments that demand a highly scalable and open relational database management system like the Progress RDBMS. Combined with the performance, high availability, and low cost-of-ownership of the Progress RDBMS, Network Appliance storage solutions give Progress users even more flexibility to meet their storage requirements,'' said Paul Antosh, Sr., RDBMS Product Manager.
Progress RDBMS
According to market research published by Gartner Dataquest and International Data Corporation (IDC) the Progress RDBMS is the leading embedded database in the world. Progress RDBMS products are high-performance relational databases that can scale from a single-user system to massive symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems, supporting thousands of concurrent users. In addition to offering the lowest cost of ownership and unparalleled scalability, the Progress RDBMS products provide high availability, absolute reliability, unmatched performance, and excellent platform portability. With full support for ANSI SQL-92 Entry Level specification, Progress RDBMS products integrate with enterprise applications, tools, and numerous third-party data management systems. |
