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Blackboard ASP Speeds Development Work, Shortens Time-to-Market by 75% With NetApp Solution

Overview A leading provider of e-education enterprise software applications and services, Blackboard serves K-12 schools, institutions of higher education, corporations, government agencies, textbook publishers, and educational merchants. Blackboard wanted to improve data replication capabilities and improve developer productivity. Blackboard also wanted to meet time-to-market schedules and minimize need for new storage. NetApp storage systems and software helped Blackboard ASP simplify storage administration, speed data replication and product upgrades, improve developer productivity, provide greater flexibility in testing upgrades, and reduce storage costs.

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Publisher	Network Appliance (NetApp)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Back-up, Storage Management, Application Development

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