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Email: sales@b2net.co.uk
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From a business standpoint, the major challenge faced by software development organisations is how to deliver the finished software product more quickly and at a lower cost than the competition.
With NetApp storage solutions, software development teams can streamline resources, reduce operating costs, and compress idle development, and test time, thereby bolstering staff productivity, heightening operational efficiencies, and reducing the time-to-market.
Certified for ClearCase
NetApp filers have been certified by IBM for use with Rational ClearCase software, a leading software configuration management (SCM) platform. ClearCase accelerates release cycles by supporting unlimited parallel development, unifying change management across the development life cycle, and scaling from small teams to large without changing tools or processes.
Increasing Performance and Scalability
The flexibility and modularity of NetApp solutions offer the highest performance and greatest capacity options for software development environments. The powerful NetApp storage capacity holds large development, simulation, and testing files, while allowing the developer to reallocate space on-the-fly between each iteration.
Additionally, the unified NetApp data management and data storage solutions allow centralized administration and a single console view of the environment's array of filers.
Providing Complete Interoperability
NetApp unites disparate, version-varied systems, improving interoperability and accessibility and bringing data closer to individual developers. Native support of NFS and CIFS within the NetApp kernel eliminates the need for emulation software such as PC-NFS or Samba-and allows Windows, UNIX, and Linux clients to share the same copy of data even in multinetwork, multiplatform environments. SecureShare-a multiprotocol lock management facility integrated into the Data ONTAP microkernel-enables UNIX and Windows applications to concurrently access and update shared files.
Assuring Data Availability and Reliability
On average, NetApp filers achieve greater than 99.995% data availability, reducing average unplanned downtime to less than half an hour per year. NetApp solutions provide the ultimate in data security in a dispersed, complex environment and offer software development organizations the highest in data availability. The unique NetApp Snapshot capability provides quick recovery of deleted data files for increased productivity. Planned downtime is also minimized with online disk expansion.
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