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IDC Opinion
With most enterprises undergoing digital
transformation (DX), the information technology
(IT) infrastructure is becoming a key strategic
asset that drives not only the business but also
competitive differentiation.
While not all workloads are considered mission
critical, all enterprises have a group of applications
they do consider mission critical, and many work
with service-level agreements (SLAs) that require
“five-nines” (99.999%) or better availability for
those workloads.
Because higher levels of availability tend to drive
higher costs for factors such as redundancy and/or
resource utilization, storage systems today need to
be configurable to meet this level of availability for
only those applications that need it.
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High-availability technology is well understood,
and in this white paper, IDC discusses a number of
availability features that form the “defense in depth”
strategy, which is most cost effective for customers
looking to modernize their IT infrastructure.
Customers should use this as a checklist when
evaluating new storage purchases that must deliver
the performance, availability, and flexibility demanded
by today’s evolving datacenter workloads.
With its ONTAP 9–based enterprise storage
solutions, NetApp measures up very well against
this checklist. Over the past four and a half years,
NetApp’s installed base of tens of thousands of
enterprise storage systems has proven that it can
meet “six-nines” availability requirements (based
on IDC’s in-depth review of uptime statistics
collected by NetApp’s cloud-based predictive
analytics platform). ◊
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