SUNNYVALE, Calif. - September 5, 2012
- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today was ranked #51 out of 100 on
Forbes magazine's "World's Most Innovative Companies" list
for 2012. Innovation is at the heart of NetApp's culture, and
drives its employees' commitment to delivering the best experience
to its customers through every facet of how they do business with
NetApp. It is this culture of innovation that enables customers to
leverage IT for strategic and competitive advantages. Additionally,
NetApp's relationships with technology and go-to-market partners
deliver a best-in-class innovation stack experience that helps
customers go further, faster.
Tom Georgens, President and CEO of
NetApp:
"Innovation is part of NetApp's DNA and it
has driven our growth throughout our history. Our 20 years of
innovation has been about delivering the best technology and
products, as well as innovating in everything we do to create a
differentiated experience for our customers and partners around the
world. Forbes's recognition is a testament that our
innovative spirit continues to thrive today and help our customers
achieve great business outcomes."
Andrew Henderson, CIO, ING
DIRECT:
"Similar to NetApp, ING DIRECT has had a
proud history of innovation since 1999. As the world's leading
direct savings bank, we pioneered branchless banking and quickly
grew to become Australia's fifth largest mortgage lender. NetApp
helped ING DIRECT Australia bring new banking products and services
to market more quickly via its 'Bank in a Box' project. In the
past, it would take our software and application development team
months to be able to test new ideas in our complex banking
environment. Today, it takes minutes. NetApp's innovation met our
own appetite for innovation and gave our business a competitive
edge."
Watch NetApp's co-founder, Dave Hitz, discuss 20
years of NetApp innovation and reflect on how data has changed over
the past two decades.
Innovating Across All Areas of
NetApp's Business
NetApp innovation focuses on delivering an
outstanding customer experience, developing industry-leading
products and technology, developing best-in-class partnerships, and
building the best team in the industry. NetApp's innovation across
these areas of its business has enabled the company to accelerate
success for its customers, partners, shareholders, and NetApp.
Currently, NetApp® Data
ONTAP® is the industry's #1 storage operating
system[1].
More customers trust Data ONTAP than any other storage operating
system because it is the key to unleashing an agile data
infrastructure that is intelligent, immortal, and infinite. With
the industry's leading storage operating system, NetApp customers
can be confident that they have the agility to shift and grow their
businesses in whatever directions necessary.
NetApp also currently ranks as the #3 world's
best multinational workplace by the Great Place to Work Institute,
based on a unique corporate culture that values creativity,
teamwork, open communication, leadership, adaptability, and trust.
By living these values, NetApp employees are empowered to develop
new ideas every day and continue to make breakthroughs happen for
the company's customers. It is NetApp's unwavering commitment to
building a strong culture that has resulted in a company that
customers and partners want to do business with.
About the Forbes Most
Innovative Companies List
Forbes World's Most Innovative Companies list relies on
investors, who vote with their wallets, to identify the companies
they expect to be innovative today and in the future. For a full
description of the methodology, please visit http://www.forbes.com/sites/innovatorsdna/2012/09/05/how-we-rank-the-worlds-most-innovative-companies/.
The full list of winners and related stories
will appear in the September 24 issue of Forbes and are
available now online at http://www.forbes.com/sites/innovatorsdna/2012/09/05/how-innovative-leaders-maintain-their-edge/.
Additional Resources
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business
breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our core values and
consistently being recognised as a great place to work around the
world are fundamental to our long-term growth and success, as well
as the success of our pathway partners and customers. Discover our
passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster
at www.netapp.com/au.
Press Contact:
Katy Berg
(02) 9994 4482
kberg@webershandwick.com
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[1] Source: NetApp internal estimates in terms of
revenue and storage capacity in the worldwide open-networked
storage market as of June 2012: VNX, VNXe, and Celerra NS can run
any Flare or Dart operating system. The contribution of these
products to the OS share has been estimated based on the proportion
of NAS and SAN installations in these products (NAS-Dart;
SAN-Flare).