Sydney, Australia - 24 February
2009-In an effort to help customers maximise the value of
their existing storage investments, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today
announced the industry's first-ever Guarantee* Program for
installed third-party storage. As an addition to NetApp's existing
Virtualization Guarantee Program, which was introduced in September
2008, NetApp is offering a guarantee that customers will decrease
their non-NetApp primary storage capacity for virtual server
environments by 35% using NetApp® V-Series and deduplication
technology.
Now customers have more ways to save with
NetApp's Virtualization Guarantee Program. Customers can take
advantage of NetApp's guarantee that they will use 50% less storage
in their VMware®, Citrix, and Microsoft® virtual
environments with NetApp storage compared to traditional storage
arrays. Alternatively, for customers that already own EMC, IBM, HP,
or HDS storage systems, NetApp will reduce redundant copies of
their primary data by at least 35% with NetApp V-Series.
"Customers are stretching their budgets and
looking to lower their overall infrastructure costs while
minimising the risk of their IT investments," said Jay Kidd, chief
marketing officer of NetApp. "While server virtualization is a way
for customers to achieve greater efficiency in the data centre,
NetApp further fulfils this promise with our storage efficiency
capabilities that help not only save space and cost but also
minimise risk of their storage investments. Now we're assuring
customers that they can realise efficiencies with our competitors'
storage using NetApp V-Series. No other storage vendor is willing
or able to match this guarantee."
Scott Morris, Director of Partner Sales,
NetApp A/NZ, said, "From a local perspective, this new
virtualization guarantee benefits both our channel partners and our
customers, during difficult economic conditions. It allows our
partners to differentiate themselves by building new skill sets and
offering customers a better quality of service, via guaranteed
savings. Partners can use this opportunity to increase their
revenue, while providing customers with a healthier bottom line and
a more efficient storage environment."
Now NetApp customers can achieve greater
storage capacity utilisation on inefficient systems that they
already purchased and deployed and tap into the unrealised
potential of their existing storage infrastructures. NetApp
provides the most complete storage efficiency technologies for
virtual server environments so that customers can improve
protection of their data assets, buy less storage, and reduce their
overall power, space, and cooling costs in their data centres.
NetApp V-Series is an open storage controller
that unifies NetApp and non-NetApp storage under a common storage
architecture. V-Series enables customers to take full advantage of
the benefits of the powerful features of Data ONTAP® such as
deduplication, thin provisioning, and Snapshot™ technology,
to improve storage efficiency and dramatically simplify data
management. NetApp deduplication has become one of the fastest
growing technologies in the company's history, with more than
28,000 systems deployed across all tiers of data, including
primary, backup, and archival.
Availability and
Requirements
Customers anywhere in the world who purchase a new V-Series 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 improve
their storage capacity on competitive storage systems by at least
35% with NetApp V-Series and deduplication (and after following
established best practices implemented by NetApp Professional
Services), NetApp will provide the additional storage capacity
needed to meet customers' shortfall, valued up to 35% of the
original controller purchased, at no additional charge*. Qualifying
service delivery is available from NetApp Global Services or
participating Authorised Professional Service Partners in networked
storage for virtualized platforms.
For more information, visit
http://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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