NetApp Strengthens Mid-Market Product Offerings
NEW DELHI, INDIA. - November 28th,
2011 - NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that it has
strengthened its entry product and solutions portfolio for midsize
businesses to deliver greater value to both customers and partners.
The new NetApp®
FAS2000 entry product line delivers improved value, simplicity,
performance, and scalability to enable customers to start right and
grow with the needs of their businesses.
Midsize
businesses are under tremendous pressure to keep pace with
growing business demands and to do more with fewer resources. Many
of these businesses have turned to virtualization to improve cost
savings, modernize their applications, and consolidate their IT
infrastructure to gain competitive advantage. As data volumes
continue to expand at explosive rates and demands on the business
continue to expand beyond IT budgets, the decisions these companies
make now about their IT infrastructure are foundational to their
business success today and in the future.
"Midsize businesses are facing unique
challenges as a result of increasing business demands and the need
to do more with fewer resources," said Tom Georgens,
President and Chief Executive Officer, NetApp. "We understand that
customers should not be forced to make a tradeoff between
affordability and 'good enough' technology. With solutions that are
priced and packaged to address this growing market, NetApp is
uniquely positioned to help our customers succeed and build a solid
foundation that can expand and adapt as their business and
priorities change."
Simon Green, Vice President and
General Manager - NetApp Asia Pacific, added, "India's mid-market
and midsize enterprises are growing and companies continue to look
for ways to innovate to stay ahead. A key contributor to the
overall economy, mid-sized enterprises demand affordable yet
enterprise class IT solutions that also have the ability to scale
rapidly. NetApp's new entry level product line delivers
uncompromised, affordable and truly unified storage solutions for
this emerging segment. NetApp's offerings will help mid-size
enterprises make smart IT decisions, protect their investments in
the long run, as well as cover the evolving and sometimes
unpredictable needs of their business."
Enhanced Midsize Business Portfolio
Delivers Value, Performance, Simplicity and Efficiency
- Performance and Scalability: NetApp's powerful
new FAS2240, the
latest offering in NetApp's entry FAS2000 series, delivers two to
three times performance improvement and greater flexibility,
allowing customers to maximize storage investments, support
demanding workloads, and add enhanced capabilities as needed as
their business needs change.
- Simplicity: NetApp OnCommand™ System
Manager 2.0 is designed specifically for the IT generalist to
simplify, control, and automate both setup and ongoing management
of NetApp storage. This simple and easy-to-use management tool is
provided with the purchase of these systems to help customers
improve their storage and service efficiency, boost productivity,
and reduce the impact of storage management on limited IT
resources.
- NetApp Data ONTAP®: The FAS2000 series
runs the latest version of the Data ONTAP operating system to
provide customers with a unified, scalable platform that supports
multiple workloads and delivers the flexibility to meet their
growing business requirements.
- Unified, Scalable Architecture: NetApp offers
a truly unified, scalable architecture that enables customers to
easily and affordably upgrade to higher-end systems and new
capabilities without the need for forklift upgrades. NetApp's
innovative unified platform is currently unmatched in the industry
and helps customers to meet current and future requirements for
architecting scalable, efficient, and flexible
infrastructures.
- Industry-Leading Efficiency: With NetApp,
midsize customers benefit from the industry-leading efficiencies
for which NetApp is widely known in the industry. While other
storage vendors offer only one or two storage efficiency
technologies, NetApp offers nine integrated technologies, which
have helped customers save $11 billion and more than 4.6 exabytes
of storage3 in total.
Availability and
Pricing
As part of today's announcement, NetApp is offering new lower
pricing options for both the FAS2040 and FAS2240 to deliver greater
value and long-term savings, allowing customers to grow their
business without outgrowing their storage investments. The NetApp
FAS2000 series systems start at under INR 4, 50,000 and can be
ordered today through NetApp's worldwide network of value-added
authorized resellers, distributors, and systems integrators. For
more information, visit www.netapp.com/in/how-to-buy.
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About NetApp
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Addendum: Customer and Partner Quote
Sheet : NetApp works with many technology partners,
channel partners, value-added resellers, and systems integrators to
deliver scalable, efficient, and innovative solutions that help
midsize businesses start right and grow with the needs of their
businesses. Here's what some of them are saying:
Guruprasad K.Murthy, Senior Director,
Engineering - OnMobile Global Limited
"OnMobile Global Limited is the leading Value Added Services [VAS]
company for Mobile, Landline and Media Service Providers. With a
firmly established and rapidly expanding global footprint across 53
countries, we required a storage solution that was both flexible
and efficient. NetApp storage solutions deliver enterprise-class
functionality even through entry level products which is not only
economical since we can purchase on a need-only basis but also
offers the right scalability to support the growth of our business.
We believe that the NetApp storage solution will help us deliver
superior value for our 92+ telecom clients".
Rajesh Rege, Sr. Vice President, Data
Center, Virtualization and Cloud, Cisco India& SAARC.
Enterprises are challenged by the complexity and management of
their data centers and are increasingly adopting unified,
pre-tested, and validated datacenter infrastructure. Cisco is
working very closely with NetApp to deliver a cost-effective cloud
infrastructure that can transform today's datacenter. We have
combined the scalability, flexibility, and manageability of Cisco
UCS with NetApp storage to achieve maximum return on investment,
while eliminating the need for costly forklift upgrades"
T. Srinivasan, Managing Director,
VMware India & SAARC
"In today's economy, midsize companies require solutions that will
allow them to do more with limited resources, respond faster to
growing business demands and achieve greater IT efficiency. NetApp
and VMware address these key requirements by providing a
cost-effective and flexible joint solution optimized to take
advantage of the full benefit of virtualization with greater cost
savings, higher availability, scalability and data protection.
Working together, NetApp and VMware provide a tightly integrated
solution to help customers start right and grow smart with an
efficient infrastructure to handle future growth."
Naresh Desai, General Manager, Avnet
Technology Solutions, India
"As mid-size businesses evolve as a huge opportunity, this
introduction to the NetApp unified storage solutions portfolio will
allow us to offer innovative solutions to address the unique
challenges that this market segment presents. Furthermore, under
our Virtualization practice we will be able to deliver integrated
solutions that offer greater value to our channel partners and
customers. Avnet will continue to invest and strengthen our NetApp
channel ecosystem with value-added solutions to address the market
together"
Sanjiv Khushu CEO and Director, E
Micro Data Technologies Pvt Ltd.
The midmarket in India is an emerging segment whose unique needs
demand a specialist approach from technology vendors as well as
partners. NetApp's storage solutions help address the need for
enterprise-class functionalities at lower investments, while at the
same time providing the flexibility and seamless scalability that
will help customer's IT keep pace with rapid business growth. As a
partner I believe this solution will help us drive greater value
for customers in this segment, in turn offering us a strong
business opportunity.