NetApp Storage Solutions for Microsoft® SQL Server

High-availability storage with integrated data management software and comprehensive support services help you protect your Microsoft® SQL Server environment, reduce costs and improve manageability.

While Microsoft SQL Server is the database of choice for many applications today, supporting enterprise-wide deployments of these databases with direct-attached storage can increase complexity of your IT environment, resulting in high overhead, escalating administrative costs, and system availability issues.

We provide a comprehensive range of storage solutions that have been certified with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 to help you:

Reduce costs and increase storage utilization

Improve manageability

Reduce the amount of time and storage required to build, test and deploy applications using SQL Server

Protect your SQL Server data and create frequent and space-efficient backups

Maintain availability of your SQL Server databases during planned or unplanned downtime

Quickly re-establish full system availability in the event of a disaster

Key Points:

Consolidate SQL Server databases with NetApp to reduce storage and data management costs
Accelerate application testing and development by creating space-efficient copies of SQL Server databases in minutes versus hours, with minimal incremental storage
Backup and restore databases rapidly, without disrupting applications or end users
Simplify data management by automating backup, recovery, archiving, and remote mirroring
Recover any size database in minutes, not hours or days