-Disclosure NetApp Employee-

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "The rumours of the death of snapmanager, have been greatly exaggerated".

While NetApp works very closely with CommVault and OEM portions of their technology for our SnapProtect product, NetApp continues to make significant investments in the development of all of our Snapmanagers, including SnapManager for SQL Server.

The audience/usecase focus for Snapmanagers and SnapProtect are slightly different, and while this isnt the place for a full explanation, generally SnapProtect is developed with Backup Administrators as it's primary audience, and includes full tracking of a backup workflow all the way to tape. SnapManagers on the other hand are developed with Database administrators as its primary audience and includes D/R workflows.

There's a lot more to it than that, and I'd be happy to contribute more to this thread, or help start another one if anybody wants a more detailed breakdown on the usecases. It's worth noting, that these products, and the alliance relationships we have with IBM and Symantec all form part of a larger Integrated Data Protection (IDP), program, and if you're interested you should be able to get a full briefing from one of NetApp's data protection focusses consuting systems engineers.

The latest Snapmanager for Windows have just gone into Beta, and there is a strong roadmap for future releases.

More information on SnapProtect can be found here - http://www.netapp.com/au/products/protection-software/snapprotect.aspx

Regards

John Martin

Principal Technologist - NetApp ANZ

@johnmartinit