NetApp Named Microsoft 2009 Storage Solutions Partner of the Year
Bangalore, India-June 24,
2009- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that it has
been named the Microsoft 2009 Partner of the Year, in the Advanced
Infrastructure, Storage Solutions category. NetApp was chosen out
of an international field of top Microsoft partners for delivering
market-leading customer solutions for Microsoft®
Hyper-V™ environments. This award, chosen by a panel of
Microsoft judges, reflects NetApp's long-standing partnership with
Microsoft and its commitment to and success helping Microsoft
customers do more with less in Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint®
Server, SQL Server®, and Hyper-V environments.
NetApp was chosen as Solutions Partner of the
Year based on its partnership with Microsoft and complete solutions
that help reduce customers' costs, maximize storage efficiency, and
improve availability in virtual environments. With NetApp,
Microsoft customers can reduce the amount of storage they need by
at least 50% when they also use NetApp® technologies such as
thin provisioning and deduplication. Earlier this year NetApp
announced a unique storage efficiency program that guarantees that
customers running Hyper-V environments will use 50% less storage
with NetApp compared to traditional storage*. The NetApp guarantee
can help minimize investment costs and risks while enabling
customers to achieve greater storage utilization in their virtual
server and desktop environments.
NetApp utilizes a variety of Windows®
Server platform technologies to improve storage system management
and streamline backup, recovery, and remote replication in Windows
Server 2008 Hyper-V environments. In addition, tight integration
with the Microsoft System Center family of products and additional
application-integrated NetApp products help maximize uptime for a
wide variety of application environments, including Microsoft
Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server. Since NetApp
storage solutions are tightly integrated with Microsoft's
technologies, customers are backed by NetApp's global customer
support infrastructure, which integrates Microsoft Premier
Support.
By combining the ability to take snapshots of
a running virtual machine via Hyper-V with NetApp's unique approach
to Snapshot™ copy backups, NetApp also enables automated,
consistent, space-efficient backup creation in a matter of seconds.
Not only can customers back up their environments more frequently
and meet existing or shrinking backup windows, with NetApp they can
store more backup copies and recover data twice as fast as with
other solutions in virtualized environments. Effective and
efficient backup and recovery also complement Microsoft business
continuity features and help customers implement more complete
disaster recovery schemes while keeping costs under control.
"We are very excited about working with
NetApp to deliver innovative end-to-end solutions to our joint
customers," said Kim Akers, general manager, Global Partner Team,
at Microsoft. "The combination of our technology with NetApp's
storage solutions gives our customers the tools they need to
improve efficiency, reduce costs, and drive their businesses
forward."
"We are pleased to honor NetApp as our
Advanced Infrastructure Storage Solutions Partner of the Year,"
said Ross Brown, vice president, Solution Partners and ISVs,
Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. "By pairing its solutions
with Microsoft's Hyper-V, NetApp is helping enterprise customers
leverage the power of virtualized environments to dramatically
reduce costs and increase availability so they can get the most out
of their IT infrastructure."
"Being chosen as Microsoft's Storage Partner
of the Year is a great honor for NetApp," said Jay Kidd, chief
marketing officer at NetApp. "While this award establishes NetApp
as the leading storage solutions provider for Microsoft
virtualization customers, more than anything it underlines the
customer success our partnership and close collaboration has
delivered."
For more information about Microsoft's
Partner of the Year Awards, visit
www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jun09/06-24POTY09PR.mspx.
For more information about NetApp and
Microsoft's Global Alliance Partnership, visit
www.netapp.com/in/solutions/solution-partners/global-alliance/microsoft-partnership.html.
For more information about NetApp's 50%
guarantee, 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
utilization.
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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.
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