NetApp India Ranked 5th "Best Company to Work For" by Great Place to Work® Institute

Features second time in a row amongst top 10 Best Companies to Work For

New Delhi, India—July 6th, 2010— NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that it has been recognized as the 5th best employer in India by the Great Place to Work® Institute. According to the Institute, NetApp's success can be attributed to a variety of factors that center on the flexibility and attention that NetApp provides to the needs of its employees. This is the second consecutive year that NetApp India has been featured in the top 10 listing and has climbed up four places from its 9th rank last year.

"NetApp believes in creating an inspiring and motivating environment for the employees. We strive to be a model company for employees with a culture that values creativity, teamwork, productivity, leadership, and innovation. This recognition today is testament of our employees' continued satisfaction at the work place, and their sense of pride and belongingness for their jobs," said Mr. Vikram Shah, President, NetApp India.

Added Rajesh Janey, President, Field Operations, NetApp India & SAARC, "NetApp has a company culture that emphasizes initiative, integrity and commitment to customers and the partner community. These values coded in our DNA, have helped us achieve this feat".

The survey highlights how employees at NetApp enjoy a large degree of flexibility, and feel involved in decisions that impact them. New employees have buddies assigned to them from the day they join the company who guide and help them settle down. Additionally, a key factor is a complete 360 degree appraisal system that ensures transparency and helps maintain trust within co-workers. Further, NetApp also has Great Place to Work page on their intranet that works as a repository of all the initiatives for employees that they can easily access and be a part of.

NetApp promises happy and healthy employees
NetApp's operational philosophy and culture are defined by our Model Company vision: to deliver the best possible results for the communities we serve by embracing and living a set of shared core values. Our commitment to living our core values and being recognized as a great place to work are fundamental to our success. NetApp's egalitarian culture, competitive salaries, unique benefits, and down-to-earth management style are valued by its employees and have led to the company's consistently high ranking on "Best Workplaces" lists in all qualifying countries.

Motivation and recognition of good work is a way of life at NetApp. The company follows a unique initiative called "Catch someone doing something right". As a part of this initiative the management makes a focused effort to acknowledge good work and highlight it to the senior management across NetApp. NetApp employees across the locations enjoy on-site amenities like free annual medical examination, break rooms, a state of the art fitness centre and other wellness programs. The organizations also follows various employee friendly policies which include flexi timings, insurance policies beyond the general approved limits, counseling services for employees across personal and professional issues and focused mentoring programs to ensure consistent learning and growth at all levels.. All these initiatives contribute to the one common goal –happy-healthy employees.

About The Great Place to Work® Institute
The Great Place to Work® Institute has been assessing the world's best companies in over 40 countries since 1980 and honors recipients according to its employees scores against the Institute's values of ‘credibility', ‘respect', ‘fairness', ‘pride', and ‘camaraderie'.

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About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

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