Established in 2004 as part of the office of
the CTO, the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) focuses on engaging
and evaluating emerging technologies and trends that may affect the
storage industry and the company's long-term business. We seek top
talent both to join our product research team and to collaborate
with us through university research relationships. ATG delivers its
innovations through the following means:
- Productization: Partner with NetApp product
management and engineering to realize our innovations into new or
improved NetApp® products that deliver real business value to
our customers
- Patents: Describe and protect our work in
invention disclosures and patents
- Papers: Publish scientific papers that
describe work done both in house and in collaboration with
researchers from top universities in order to influence the
industry
- Standards: Participate in major standards
bodies such as IETF, SNIA, and DMTF
ATG has sites in Sunnyvale, California;
Waltham, Massachusetts; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and
Bangalore, India.
ATG Research Agenda
Our research agenda focuses on all areas of
storage and data management. We are a key contributor to
leading-edge products, and we collaborate extensively with
external researchers.
PRODUCT RESEARCH
We work at the earliest stages of product
development across a diverse set of problem areas. Key product
areas in which we are making an impact include:
- Virtualization technologies: Develop
outstanding storage solutions for virtualized environments and
leverage virtualization technology within the storage
subsystem
- Cloud technologies: Evaluate and develop key
technologies to enable storage in cloud environments
- New hardware technologies: Investigate new
architectures for using nonvolatile memory technologies to provide
better cost, performance, reliability, and power efficiency
- Data management: Provide end-to-end storage
management capabilities, including developing underlying
technologies for service-level objective based management
- Software quality and supportability:
Systematically improve software quality and supportability
- Scalable systems: Increase the horizontal and
vertical scale of NetApp systems with respect to both capacity and
performance
- Search technologies: Provide thought
leadership for advanced search capabilities in NetApp products
- Protocols: Lead the storage industry in the
development of parallel data access and heterogeneous federation
protocol
EXTERNAL COLLABORATION
We enjoy a significant number of university
relationships and collaborations. Key initiatives include:
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Where could you go if there were no
limits on your innovation?
Exploring your opportunities with the
Advanced Technology Group at NetApp could help you make a big
impact in advancing the innovation of storage systems and data
management. To get started, write to us at atg-opportunities@netapp.com.
NetApp was #1 on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" in
2009. Check out our current job opportunities at www.netapp.com/careers.
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