NetApp V-Series Sees Growth Despite Slowdown

NetApp has announced that despite the difficult economy, revenue for its V-Series product line grew more than 100% year over year during its four fiscal quarters that ended on July 31, 2009. V-Series is a family of open storage controllers that unify NetApp and non NetApp storage under a common architecture for multiprotocol services.

Aviva India recently purchased NetApp V-Series to improve its disaster recovery readiness. Aviva India also deployed a NetApp V-Series system for its main data centre. Years of rapid growth left Aviva India with infrastructure that suffered from low utilization and very high Recovery Point Objective that left critical data at risk. Although the organissation invested in its infrastructure, it could not meet the expanding needs.

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With the help of a NetApp V-Series, Aviva India consolidated its storage. The V-Series will enable Aviva India to also virtualise third-party storage at the company’s Primary and disaster recovery site, protecting its original investment and considerably reducing the Recovery Point Objective with NetApp Snapshot and SnapMirror technologies. Aviva India reduced close to 30% data with NetApp deduplication on the third party storage and expects to reduce the data by 85% for the server Virtualization project that they are targeting. With NetApp V-Series and storage-based data replication, the company estimates it will see considerable savings on licensing fees for capacity-based data replication that they were using prior to deploying NetApp over next three years.

"With NetApp, we’re aiming to increase speed and efficiency while bringing costs under control," said Abhay Johorey, COO, Aviva India. "But the best part about our new solution is that it’s not entirely new. We were able to complement existing investments in non-NetApp infrastructure, which was significantly cheaper than rebuilding from the ground up. It is a classic case of doing more with less!"

"We are delighted to be associated with Aviva India and it gives us pleasure to see them already benefiting from the V-Series which gives them greater flexibility and efficiency with their existing third-party storage," said Rajesh Janey, President- India & SAARC, NetApp. “Limited budgets are requiring customers to get more out of the storage they already own. With our storage efficiency technology, customers get back raw capacity and significantly reduce the rate at which storage grows, and that’s a compelling proposition regardless of what storage you own."