The NetApp NearStore R100 provides economical, scalable, and easily-managed secondary storage that integrates seamlessly within enterprise network infrastructures. Consolidating backups with NearStore improves data protection management by enabling customers to back up both NetApp filers and non-NetApp systems to one appliance before archiving to tape. This two-stage backup process relieves primary storage from time-consuming direct backup to tape, increasing the availability of servers and storage for applications. When access to backup data is required, data recovery is much faster from NearStore than from traditional solutions, greatly reducing operational downtime and the associated business impacts.