NetApp supports a wide range of data sources and standards for your enterprise storage needs.

NetApp systems provide scalable, high-availability storage for Windows®, UNIX®, and Linux® operating systems, on both Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage area networks and network-attached storage. Supporting CIFS, NFS, and HTTP file access protocols, NetApp ensures data security and availability, no matter how complex your storage configuration. With a NetApp unified solution, you can focus on your applications, rather than on the technology that supports them.

NetApp enterprise storage systems function as "unification engines" that simultaneously support Fibre Channel and IP storage area networks (SAN), and network-attached storage (NAS) and Common Internet File System (CIFS) storage:

Fibre Channel SANs have become the de facto standard for storage networking in the corporate data center, providing significant advantages over direct-attached storage through improved storage utilization, higher data availability, reduced management costs, and highly scalable capacity and performance.

IP SANs (iSCSI) combine widely deployed TCP/IP networking with SCSI data transfer standards to provide a SAN alternative to direct-attached storage in cost-sensitive areas of your IT infrastructure. iSCSI is an ideal solution for storage consolidation, data protection, and disaster recovery in both centralized and distributed environments.

NFS is tightly integrated with the NetApp file system, WAFL, and all NetApp data protection features.

CIFS is fully integrated into the NetApp FAS and V-Series systems allowing you to consolidate many individual Windows file servers into a single NetApp storage system.