Mumbai-March 10, 2009- In an
effort to help Indian enterprises maximize the value of their
existing storage investments and reduce burgeoning IT costs, NetApp
(NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced the industry's first-ever Guarantee*
Program offering a guarantee that enterprises will decrease their
primary storage capacities for virtual server environments.
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. This indirectly reduces their infrastructure costs
like energy and real estate as raw storage addition is a key factor
for higher power consumption and increased floor-space in data
centers.
According to the NetApp-Nielsen Data
Explosion survey, number of enterprises demanding storage capacity
in the range of 6-10 TB is expected jump by 166% whereas a whopping
200% rise is expected in enterprises demanding 21-25 TB of storage
capacities. These findings clearly indicate that enterprises are
generating massive amounts of data, which will force higher storage
spends in 2009-10 if the data growth is not managed efficiently.
However, now enterprises can maximize IT investments and defer
their storage expenditures by using NetApp's Virtualization
Guarantee Program and control costs very effectively.
"Enterprises of all sizes are stretching
their budgets and are strategizing to lower their overall
infrastructure costs while minimizing the risk of their IT
investments," said Surajit Sen, director- alliances & marketing
of NetApp India. "Our storage efficiency capabilities will not only
save space and power costs but also maximize IT investments. We are
assuring enterprises that they can realize efficiencies even with
our competitors' solutions using NetApp V-Series technology. No
other storage vendor is willing or able to match this guarantee,
which has a direct cost benefit in the current economic
environment."
Now NetApp customers can achieve greater
storage capacity utilization on inefficient systems that they
already purchased and deployed and tap into the unrealized
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 centers."
added Sen.
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 Authorized Professional Service Partners in networked
storage for virtualized platforms.
For more information, visit www.netapp.com/in/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
utilization.
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 minimizing 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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*This guarantee and related Program are
limited to the terms set forth in www.netapp.com/in/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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NetApp India
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