Improving storage efficiency

NetApp has integrated its unified storage systems with Symantec's Thin Reclamation API to help SAN users automatically reclaim storage space and improve overall storage efficiency.

This solution gives users the ability to manage, reduce and reclaim storage space throughout the entire data life cycle so they can improve planning and reduce their overall IT footprint and management costs.

Unified storage helps users store the maximum quantity of data for the lowest possible cost by using several storage efficiency technologies inherent to the NetApp Data ONTAP operating system.

These technologies help users get more use out of the disk they have while improving manageability and performance. This efficiency, coupled with Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation, allows users to manage their SAN environments and reduce data centre power, cooling and space costs.