Symantec and NetApp's integration provides customers this storage efficiency with the ability to run both file single instancing and block-level deduplication at the same time. This integrated approach is part of the most complete suite of technologies for archive environments with deduplication, single instancing, thin provisioning, Snapshot, and RAID-DP. Competitive approaches from HP and EMC fail to either offer this level of functionality or match the full benefits of this integrated storage-efficiency approach. As a result, Symantec and NetApp are enabling customers to create a more affordable, flexible, and cost-effective infrastructure to address the rapid growth of their data archives.

"Archive storage is growing at a rate of more than 50 percent a year, so customers are continually struggling to control their storage budgets," said Tim Russell, vice president and general manager of Archiving, Compliance, Storage Efficiency, and Security with NetApp. "Integration of Symantec and NetApp deduplication improves archive storage efficiency for our joint customers. With additional integration such as cascading Snapshot copies, customers can reduce not just storage acquisition costs but operating costs as well and, ultimately, maximize the value of their current IT infrastructures."

"Customers are archiving across more than just e-mail to include file systems, SharePoint, and IM," said Simon Jelley, senior director, Symantec Enterprise Vault product management. "With more information being archived, customers are looking to optimize their storage costs and resource allocation. Enterprise Vault 8.0 brings storage efficiency with optimized single instance storage and takes it a step further with integration to NetApp's deduplication technology. Together, we are continuing to innovate and help customers realize greater value from their data protection and archive environments." For more information, visit http://www.netapp.com/us/solutions/infrastructure/archive/.