NetApp Integrates with Microsoft for SMB Cloud Disaster Recovery

NetApp has announced enhanced integration with Microsoft that enables service providers to offer enterprise-class data protection to their SMB customers, by leveraging the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. As noted in this news release, the enhanced integration offers data protection capabilities such as disaster recovery, clustered failover, and backup and recovery.

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"Although enterprise-class data protection has historically been too expensive for most small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to implement themselves, NetApp and Microsoft now enable service providers to offer enterprise-class data protection to their SMB customers. Additionally, NetApp announced the availability of new professional service offerings and additional resources and guidance for service providers to build a variety of enterprise-class cloud services.

"'SMB customers have many of the same disaster recovery and business continuity requirements as large enterprise organizations, but often times don't have the necessary skill set or budget needed to achieve the desired results,' said Laura DuBois, program vice president, Storage Software and Solutions, IDC. 'Solutions that address this gap by providing enterprise-level data protection along with the support and guidance needed to deploy will be integral in helping SMBs realize the true benefits of a cloud infrastructure.'"

Read the Full Press Release at Netapp.com