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posted on 25 June 2008 09:30

Plasmon is going to integrate NetApp storage products into its Archive Appliance so that files can be archived onto NetApp hardware.

This is in keeping with Plasmon's strategy of virtualising the archive layer and enabling intelligence-based archive systems that work with multiple technologies as one virtualized storage pool.

Plasmon's CEO, Steven Murphy, said: “This partnership is another step toward delivering solutions that enable archives to seamlessly leverage appropriate storage technologies and applications. We will continue to form key partnerships with leading industry vendors such as NetApp to help drive our virtualisation strategy and provide customers with archive architectures that simplify their storage environments.”

Patrick Rogers, Solutions Marketing VP for NetApp was, as you might expect, positive about the arrangement: "... demands such as archiving are driving data management issues that are larger than just backup alone and making what customers need to manage today a lot broader. Together with Plasmon, we are helping our customers to achieve new levels of operational efficiencies and to address their challenges in archiving.”

Plasmon now has its unique UDO optical archive medium but will soon have a possibly full gamut of hard drive-based NetApp boxes with their software protection, deduplication and thin provisioning technologies to add to its archive software's repertoire.

More such deals should follow as Plasmon utilizes its NetApp-granted credibility to other storage HW suppliers. Maybe one with a cloud storage supplier might occur.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}