Consolidation

NetApp teams with alliance partners to help customers simplify their data center infrastructure through consolidation of all storage - CIFS NAS, NFS NAS, iSCSI SAN, Fibre Channel SAN, and FCoE SAN - on a unified storage system, resulting in avoidance or deferral of costly data center expansions, and reduction of space, power, and cooling loads.

• Application Consolidation: Solutions for consolidating your file services, messaging, database, and other data-intensive business applications to meet aggressive backup, provisioning, and performance SLAs.
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  Infrastructure Consolidation: Solutions for significantly reducing power, space, and cooling requirements, achieving faster time to market in application development, and doubling storage utilization.