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NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today unveiled the new NetApp® SnapManager® for Hyper-V(TM) and SnapManager 6.0 for Microsoft® Exchange Server to improve data backup and recovery in Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environments. In addition, NetApp SnapManager for Microsoft SQL Server® and SnapManager for Microsoft SharePoint® Server can now run on Windows Server 2008 R2, enabling customers to take full advantage of NetApp’s unique data management capabilities in their physical and virtualized environments.

NetApp, a Microsoft Global ISV and Gold Certified Partner, and Microsoft Corporation are helping customers build, manage, and maintain dynamic data center infrastructures that enable new levels of efficiency, flexibility, and productivity. NetApp has worked with Microsoft to develop tightly integrated solutions, and in 2009 was selected as Microsoft 2009 Partner of the Year in the Advanced Infrastructure, Storage Solutions category. NetApp solutions for Microsoft based environments have been enhanced with the following new products.

• SnapManager for Hyper-V — SnapManager for Hyper-V enables automated, policy-based backup and recovery for applications and services running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. The product can help Microsoft customers eliminate backup bottlenecks, reduce human error, and greatly minimize the interruption and performance impact caused by traditional server-hosted backup and restore. In addition, NetApp now enables Microsoft virtualization customers to dynamically expand or shrink volumes to reclaim unused storage capacity in shared storage environments.
• SnapManager 6.0 for Microsoft Exchange Server — SnapManager for Exchange Server can help reduce storage footprint and increase operational efficiencies in the data center by minimizing the number of Exchange data copies that enterprise customers need to deploy while continuing to provide enterprise-class data protection. SnapManager for Exchange Server now fully integrates single mailbox recovery capabilities to enable Exchange administrators to offload routine e-mail restore operations to help-desk personnel, helping to improve productivity and reduce the time and cost associated with recovering e-mail. SnapManager for Exchange Server is integrated with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) technology to provide efficient and flexible backup and to restore support for the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) architecture.
• ApplianceWatch PRO 2.0 – NetApp’s new ApplianceWatch(TM) PRO 2.0 management pack offers customers discovery, health monitoring, and performance monitoring of their NetApp storage systems with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager. ApplianceWatch PRO 2.0 also includes a separate management pack that integrates NetApp storage controller knowledge with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to provide a comprehensive virtualization management solution. ApplianceWatch PRO 2.0 enables administrators to easily manage storage systems in virtual environments and offers automated resolution from the System Center Virtual Machine Manager console.

It’s great to see NetApp continue to innovate with their SnapManager, anything they can do to improve the backup/recovery process, to help end users improve delivery and productivity has to be a good thing. Being able to backup and recover on demand, creates opportunities in dynamic IT and the efficiency of the infrastructure. With the right backup and recovery processes and technologies, I can safely store less data online and only recall it when we need to, I can reduce the amount of log files for that application that I need to keep from 6 months to a few weeks, I can switch off those virtual machines that aren’t in use and recall them when they’re needed, I can reduce over provisioning data, an issue which continues to affect many organizations. Very exciting if you examine the possibilities, I’m off to read up more.

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