SYDNEY, Australia - 14 January
2009 - As customers look to reduce costs amid the current
economic climate, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that it is
extending its 50% Virtualization Guarantee* Program, previously
available only for VMware®, to Citrix® and
Microsoft® virtual environments. As part of the program,
NetApp is offering a guarantee that customers will use 50% less
storage with NetApp® compared to traditional storage in Citrix
XenServer™ and Microsoft Windows® Server Hyper-V™
virtual environments. According to industry estimates, most storage
that IT organisations purchase is inefficient and underutilised.
The NetApp guarantee minimises investment costs and risks while
enabling customers to achieve greater storage utilisation in their
virtual server and desktop environments.
"Recently introduced guarantee programs vary
widely in what is covered and what is guaranteed. Careful
evaluation and judgment is needed, but when users qualify and find
that the solutions meet their requirements, they should consider
these guarantees a plus in the vendor's favor," said April Adams,
research director, Gartner, in the November 2008 report, Capacity
Savings and Storage Utilisation Guarantees: What's Included, and
Are They Worth Considering? Adams also said, "During the research
phase of your next storage purchasing cycle, ask each vendor if it
offers a capacity savings or utilisation guarantee."
NetApp's unique program assures customers
that they will use less storage, achieve better data protection,
and increase flexibility when they select NetApp and leverage its
unique storage-efficiency technologies such as thin provisioning,
deduplication, RAID-DP®, and Snapshot™, all of which
come standard on NetApp systems. No other large storage vendor is
willing or able to match this guarantee. As a result, customers can
buy less storage and reduce their overall power, space, and cooling
costs in their data centres.
NetApp customer Transplace provides
comprehensive transportation and logistics management services and
technology to major shippers. Transplace trusted NetApp to support
its virtualization environment. Transplace achieved as much as 93%
space savings leveraging NetApp storage-efficiency technologies
such as deduplication. The use of deduplication in all of its
virtual environments has enabled Transplace to achieve massive
space savings of more than 11TB.
"We're responsible for the global logistics
for many Fortune 1000 companies. The more efficient we can make our
processes and infrastructure, the more we can directly impact our
ability to execute and respond to the needs of our customers," said
Vincent Biddlecombe, CTO of Transplace. "We needed a solution that
gave us better business continuity and greater flexibility in our
test and development environment. We rearchitected our entire data
centre infrastructure, making NetApp storage over Ethernet our new
standard. This solution has since allowed us to increase customer
service levels while simultaneously meeting our own tight budget
constraints. The bottom line was that NetApp saved us a ton of
money and improved our ability to offer enhanced services to our
customers."
NetApp is committed to helping customers
drive cost inefficiencies out of their data centres. With the
proven expertise and technology that may provide customers to use
50% less storage compared to other competitive offerings, NetApp is
helping customers tap into the unrealised potential of their
virtual infrastructures.
"Virtualization is at the heart of helping
our customers reduce costs and adapt to changing business needs,"
said Frank Artale, vice president of Business Development, Citrix
Systems. "NetApp extends the value of virtualization by delivering
greater efficiency in the storage infrastructure, a requirement for
any virtual environment. NetApp's guarantee gives customers
confidence that they can realise greater efficiencies in their
XenServer virtual environments and be more flexible and responsive
to business change."
"Applying virtualization technologies broadly
across the IT infrastructure, such as those offered by Microsoft
for addressing the needs of the desktop through the data centre,
yields important benefits in reducing costs and attaining greater
efficiency, flexibility, continuity, and agility," said Zane Adam,
senior director, Virtualization at Microsoft. "With the combination
of the storage capabilities from NetApp and server virtualization
offerings from Microsoft, customers can quickly provision both
their storage and servers. Together, NetApp and Microsoft deliver
greater IT efficiencies with improved flexibility, helping drive
down cost and complexity for customers' operations."
Availability and
Requirements
Customers anywhere in the world who purchase a new system for their
virtual desktop and server environment, including Citrix XenServer,
VMware ESX, and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, can take
advantage of this program. If customers don't use 50% less storage
with NetApp compared to competitive storage systems after following
established best practices implemented by NetApp Professional
Services and utilising NetApp Data ONTAP® storage-efficiency
technologies, NetApp will provide the additional capacity needed to
meet customers' shortfall, up to 50% of the original capacity
purchased, at no additional charge*. Qualifying service delivery is
available from NetApp Global Services or participating Authorised
Professional Service Partners in networked storage for virtualised
platforms.
For more information, visit www.netapp.com/guarantee,
where you can access program details including FAQs, technical
resources, best practices, and the new NetApp Storage Efficiency
Calculator to evaluate your current environment and learn how
NetApp storage-efficiency technologies can lead to higher storage
utilisation.
Also, listen to the podcast titled
"Use 50% Less Storage with NetApp-Guaranteed" with Jim
Sangster, senior director of Marketing at NetApp, on ways to manage
your company's exponential data growth in a virtualized environment
while minimising your storage investment.
To learn more about the latest in NetApp and
industry deduplication news, visit NetApp's Dr. Dedupe Blog at
http://blogs.netapp.com/drdedupe/.
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About NetApp
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*This guarantee and related Program are
limited to the terms set forth in www.netapp.com/guarantee
applicable only to prospective orders placed after the Program
effective date and are dependent upon your compliance with the
terms and conditions set forth in this document and any of the
instruction sets and specifications set forth in the referenced
documents. NetApp's sole and exclusive liability and your sole and
exclusive remedy associated with the terms of this guarantee and
related Program is the provision by NetApp of the additional
storage capacity as set forth in this guarantee and related
Program.
Disclaimer - Forward Looking
Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as
defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those projected or implied in the forward-looking statements.
NetApp advises readers that these potential risks and uncertainties
include, but are not limited to: potential fluctuations in
operating results; the ability to maintain and gain market or
industry acceptance of the company's products; the company's
dependence on a limited number of customers; fluctuations and
variances in customers' overall products, product architectures,
and internal configurations; variations in product availability;
fluctuations and variations in the virtualization product markets;
fluctuations in software development and release schedules,
customers' demand for products and services, changes in partner,
channel and vendor relationships, international economic,
regulatory, political, and other risks and uncertain benefits from
strategic business combinations. More detailed information on these
and additional factors which could affect the company's operating
and financial results is described in NetApp's Forms 10-K, 10-Q,
and other reports filed, or to be filed, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. NetApp urges all interested parties to read
these reports to gain a better understanding of the business and
other risks that the company faces. The forward-looking statements
contained in this press release are made only as of the date
hereof, and the company does not intend to update or revise these
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events, or otherwise.
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