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| Advanced Single Instance Storage |
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- Performs block-level data deduplication on NearStore® data volumes

- Volume data is automatically scanned and deduplicated, resulting in fast, efficient space savings with minimal impact on operations

- Now available for N6000 Gateway
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| Data ONTAP® |
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- N series storage operating system provides full-featured and unified data management for both block and file serving environments

- Single architecture and user interface simplify data management and reduce costs for SAN and NAS deployment
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| Disk Sanitization |
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- Physically obliterates data by overwriting disks with specified byte patterns or random data

- Helps prevent recovery of current data by any known recovery methods

- Now available for N6000 Gateway
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| FlexCache |
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- Creates a flexible, horizontally scalable caching layer within your storage infrastructure that automatically adapts to changing usage patterns to eliminate bottlenecks

- Can help improve application response times for large compute farms, speed data access for remote users, or create a tiered storage infrastructure that circumvents tedious data management tasks
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| FlexClone® |
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- Provides near-instant creation of LUN and volume clones without requiring additional storage capacity

- Accelerates test and development, and storage capacity savings
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| FlexShare™ |
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- Prioritizes storage resource allocation to highest-value workloads on a heavily loaded system

- Ensures that best performance is provided to designated high-priority applications
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| FlexVol® |
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- Creates flexibly sized LUNs and volumes across a large pool of disks and one or more RAID groups

- Enables applications and users to get more space dynamically and nondisruptively without IT staff intervention. Can enable more productive use of available storage and helps improve performance.
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| MetroCluster |
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- Offers an integrated high-availability/disaster-recovery solution for campus and metro-area deployments

- Ensures high data availability when a site failure occurs
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| MultiStore® |
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- Securely partitions a storage system into multiple virtual storage appliances

- Enables secure consolidation of multiple domains and file servers
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| NearStore (near-line) |
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- Increases the maximum number of concurrent data streams (per storage controller)

- Enhances backup, data protection, and disaster preparedness by increasing the number of concurrent data streams between two N series systems
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| Operations Manager |
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- Manages multiple N series systems from a single administrative console

- Speeds up deployment and consolidated management of multiple N series systems
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| Performance Acceleration Module |
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- Improves throughput, and reduces latency for file services and other random read intensive workloads

- Offers power savings because it consumes less power than adding more disk drives to optimize performance
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| Protection Manager |
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- Provides backup and replication management for N series disk-to-disk environment

- Improves productivity through automation of data protection tasks and delivers higher assurance of data protection than with manual execution of tasks by reducing human errors
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| Provisioning Manager |
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- Enables administrators to apply consistent data set provisioning policies across the enterprise, automate complex provisioning processes, check policy conformance and pool storage resources for higher utilization

- Policy-based automation simplifies storage provisioning, ensuring that the provisioning process is repeatable, scalable and auditable, while mitigating the risk of data loss due to misconfigured storage
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| RAID-DP |
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- Offers double parity bit RAID protection (N series RAID 6 implementation)

- Protects against data loss due to double disk failures and media bit errors occurring during drive rebuild processes
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| SecureAdmin™ |
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- Authenticates both the administrative user and the N series system, creating a secure, direct communication link to the N series system

- Helps protect administrative logins, passwords and session commands from cleartext snooping by replacing RSH and Telnet with the strongly encrypted SSH protocol
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| Single Mailbox Recovery for Exchange (SMBR) |
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- Enables the recovery of a single mailbox from a Microsoft® Exchange Information Store

- SMBR can extract a single mailbox or e-mail directly in minutes compared to hours with traditional methods; helps eliminate the need for staff-intensive, complex, and time-consuming Exchange server and mailbox recovery
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| SnapDrive® |
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- Provides host-based data management of N series storage from Windows®, UNIX®, and Linux® servers

- Simplifies host-consistent Snapshot™ copy creation and automates error-free restores
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| SnapLock® |
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- Write-protects structured application data files within a volume to provide WORM disk storage

- Provides storage enabling compliance with government records retention regulations
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| SnapManager® |
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- Provides host-based data management of N series storage for databases and business applications

- Simplifies application-consistent Snapshot copies, automates error-free data restores, and enables application-aware disaster recovery
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| SnapMirror® |
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- Enables automatic, incremental data replication between systems: synchronous or asynchronous

- Provides flexible, efficient site-to-site mirroring for disaster recovery and data distribution
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| SnapMover® |
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- Enables rapid reassignment of disks between controllers within a system without disruption

- Enables fast, nondisruptive load balancing within an active-active controller system
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| SnapRestore® |
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- Rapidly restores single files, directories, or entire LUNs and volumes from any Snapshot backup

- Enables near-instant recovery of files, databases, and complete volumes
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| Snapshot |
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- Makes incremental, data-in-place, point-in-time copies of a LUN or volume with minimal performance impact

- Enables frequent, nondisruptive, space-efficient and quickly restorable backups
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| SnapValidator® |
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- Maximizes data integrity for Oracle databases

- Enhances Oracle Database resiliency in compliance with Oracle HARD initiative
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| SnapVault® |
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- Exports Snapshot copies to another N series system, providing an incremental block-level backup solution

- Enables cost-effective, long-term retention of rapidly restorable disk-based backups
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| SyncMirror® |
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- Maintains two online copies of data with RAID-DP protection on each side of the mirror

- Protects against all types of hardware outages, including triple disk failure
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| System Manager |
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- Manages a single N series storage system from a single administrative console

- System setup and configuration management for fast deployment of a single N series system
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