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“Flexible IT” can sound grandiose or difficult, but it is actually a pragmatic approach to help IT address the many competing demands of modern business. While NetApp has recently expanded its offerings that help with the improved use and re-use of IT resources, its focus on Flexible IT could be doing the whole industry a service.

In this paper, Evaluator Group discusses how consolidating both older and newer storage capacity behind the V‐Series controller allows IT departments to simplify the management of their storage, while meeting their application and business needs.

Learn how Cartika utilizes NetApp storage to deliver on-demand cloud services efficiently with high availability and seamless scalability.

Learn how Gateway Health improved service quality by simplifying their storage environment with NetApp storage solutions.

Learn how an environmental remediation and engineering firm increasde flexible, accessible, and easy-to-manage storage capacity during a period of rapid business growth using NetApp storage solutions.

Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in a virtualized environment that leverages VMware virtualization and NetApp unified storage technologies can yield significant operational IT benefits in terms of increased data protection and availability, reduced storage requirements, and significant cost savings when compared to operating a traditional Microsoft Exchange environment. This paper describes these benefits in detail and outlines recommended best practices and key steps to achieve a successful implementation.

The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger scale organization—an entity that can quickly adapt to change and scale to meet the rapidly changing needs of today’s business, an entity that focuses on delivering and maintaining applications, not infrastructure. In order for us to achieve IT transparency, we need to eliminate IT’s visibility since all anyone ever sees are the problems and road blocks IT creates which inhibit business flexibility, growth and potential revenue. ESG speaks with hundreds of IT end-users and the majority of them share a common goal of driving down capital and operational costs, simplifying ongoing management, reducing maintenance overhead and improving asset utilization (doing more with less). With such demands, it is hardly plausible for IT to become invisible …or is it?

Discover how you can automate server and storage management and reduce cost in your virtual environment.