Using NFS to store and boot virtual machine images is becoming an attractive option, and for obvious reasons NetApp has been promoting the use of its solutions as the perfect complement to a VMware on ...

A lot of the shops that are running NFS + ESX are NetApp shops, because ESX on NFS plays to NetApp's strengths--snaps for provisioning & backup & replication, massive savings for de-dupe, ease of ...

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...

Three powerhouse enterprise tech companies have joined forces to provide customers with flexible, high-performance virtualized storage infrastructure that can be scaled independently from compute. The ...

NetApp, which calls itself as a the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now a supported external storage option for Amazon Elastic VMware Service ...

VMware vSphere 4 is a platform for building out cloud infrastructures that aggregate CPU, networking, and storage resources into a seamless, flexible, and dynamic cloud that delivers maximum ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, in collaboration with VMware, Inc. and Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced the ...

Data storage firm NetApp Inc. said today it’s expanding its long-standing partnership with the virtualization software giant VMware Inc. The companies announced a trio of new customer-driven ...

NetApp is planning to release reference architectures aimed at running VMware-based private clouds on NetApp's HCI hyper-converged infrastructure offerings, CRN has learned. The new program, called ...

If Dell closes its acquisition of EMC as planned, that will leave NetApp the largest of the independent storage vendors. That unique position for NetApp leads to a wide range of questions about the ...

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Will NFS become the predominant storage deployment method for VMware implementations? NFS didn't need to be saved, but because of VMware its use has been broadened beyond the traditional Unix ...