London, UK.-April 21, 2009 - NetApp
(NASDAQ: NTAP) announced the integration and certification of its
storage platforms with VMware® vSphere™ 4 in conjunction
with VMware's announcement of vSphere 4 at a press conference held
today at VMware headquarters. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry's
first operating system for building the internal cloud and enables
the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services. Combined
with NetApp® storage solutions, vSphere 4 provides customers
the foundation to run their data centres in a more flexible and
cost-effective way.
VMware vSphere 4 is a platform for building
out cloud infrastructures that aggregate CPU, networking, and
storage resources into a seamless, flexible, and dynamic cloud that
delivers maximum efficiency, control, and choice to customers.
NetApp provides the storage foundation for VMware customers to
transform their storage into a highly efficient pool of resources
that can scale and adapt to any need. Now customers can take
advantage of the following benefits in their VMware vSphere 4
environments:
- Improved efficiency. NetApp storage technologies such as
deduplication and thin provisioning help customers achieve greater
than 50% infrastructure savings in their virtualised server and
storage environment. Now VMware customers can take advantage of
NetApp's Virtualisation Guarantee* Program that will enable them to
use 50% less storage in their environments with NetApp storage
compared to traditional storage arrays.
- Better control. NetApp provides secure separation of
network and storage resources in multitenant environments to enable
hosted IT services. Customers can receive a real-time view of their
entire VMware vSphere 4 environment-from virtual machine to
volume-using VMware vCentreTM Server and optimise their
utilisation. Additionally, customers can simplify management with
automated cloning, provisioning, and backup and recovery for
virtualised servers and storage. Together, these capabilities
dramatically improve control of the data centre environment through
better availability, security, and manageability.
- Greater choice. The NetApp unified architecture gives
customers the flexibility to match the right performance and price
point using any storage protocol to address their changing business
needs. Customers who invested in other storage solutions can use
NetApp V-Series to unify their existing infrastructure under a
common storage architecture and take full advantage of the benefits
of the powerful features of Data ONTAP® to improve storage
efficiency and dramatically simplify data management. Customers now
have the flexibility and choice to do what best suits their needs,
now and in the future.
Data centre customers are challenged to do
more with less in today's economic environment. In most instances,
only projects that show immediate ROI within 6 to 12 months are
approved. As budgets are cut or remain flat and IT staff are asked
to increase service levels, virtualisation has proven to reduce
both capital and operating expenditures and provide IT staff the
required flexibility to rapidly respond to evolving business
challenges.
"We believe that VMware vSphere 4 will bring
enterprises a nondisruptive and pragmatic path to the cloud," said
Parag Patel, vice president, Alliances, VMware. "NetApp has been a
valued, trusted technology collaborator in helping customers
eliminate unnecessary inefficiencies and better utilise their
existing infrastructure investments. Together, we plan to help
dramatically simplify the landscape of today's data centres and
enable customers to rapidly deliver adaptive and reliable IT
services."
"VMware's efforts to tie all the diverse
cloud components together into a single managed entity is directly
aligned with our vision of how the data centre is evolving," said
Richard Fenton, Consulting Systems Engineer at NetApp. "Just as
VMware vSphere 4 is the foundation for cloud computing, we believe
NetApp provides customers with the best storage platform for
delivering the next generation of IT services. We're excited about
the positive benefit VMware vSphere 4 is going to have for our
customers. Together, NetApp and VMware provide our joint customers
a solid path to cloud computing to better manage the complexities
of their data centres."
To hear more about how NetApp and VMware will
provide the foundation for the next evolution of the data centre,
watch this video with Jay Kidd at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSRfNlJqBk.
For customers who want to get there faster,
NetApp Virtualisation Services for VMware environments can deliver
a smooth transition to the optimal infrastructure. NetApp's
dedicated Professional Services team and Authorised Professional
Service Partners have the expertise to assess customer
environments, provide valuable insights, and create and execute a
plan that will help customers achieve their goals with the least
cost, minimum risk, and the least disruption to their ongoing
operations.
Product Availability
NetApp storage platforms and software products such as
SANscreen® VM Insight and MultiStore® are certified for
VMware vSphere 4 and available immediately directly from NetApp and
channel partners. The NetApp Virtualisation Guarantee*
Program for vSphere is also available immediately. For more
information, visit www.netapp.com/guarantee,
where you can access program details, including Guarantee Program
terms and conditions, 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 utilisation.
For more information on how NetApp SANscreen
can optimise your virtualised data centre, read the white paper
located at
http://www.netapp.com/us/library/analyst-reports/ar-optimiing-virtualied-data-centre.html.
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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.
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 virtualisation 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 that 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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