NetApp Supports 4Gb SAN Technology

March 24th, 2006: Network Appliance has announced that its future Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions will support 4Gb Fibre Channel technology.

The company says that 4Gb Fibre Channel improvements are ideally suited for customers that need to quickly develop, compute, transfer or analyse large amounts of data such as streaming video, modelling and rendering and large databases with extreme performance requirements.

"Given the growing and changing demand for data, customers require high-performance storage solutions to keep pace with their business needs," says Rich Clifton, vice president and general manager of the Networked Storage business unit. "NetApp support for 4Gb FC SANs demonstrates the ongoing commitment we make to our customers to deliver powerful solutions that help them to gain more value from their data infrastructure."

NetApp says that it is one of the first vendors to support 4Gb fibre channel. HP has also recently announced 4Gb support in its EVA arrays.

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