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Advanced Technology Group

Key Points:
  • Funding advanced research at major universities
  • Soliciting and evaluating ideas from our employees and community
  • Thinking outside and beyond our product roadmap
  • Working with product developers to turn the best innovations into products you can use

NetApp's cutting-edge exploration into advanced technology helps define the future of storage and data management. We explore ideas and technologies to find new ways we can make a difference for you.

NetApp's cutting-edge exploration into advanced technology and new ideas helps define the future of storage and data management. We explore ideas and technologies to find new ways we can make a difference for our customers.

Innovation continues to be a key differentiator for NetApp's products. ATG is working to turn the best new ideas into products that will make a positive difference for our customers.

ATG solicits and evaluates proposals for improving our products and for creating new products. Working with our employees, our partners, our customers, and leading universities, ATG identifies and funds new ideas that we believe will have significant product impact and improve the customer experience. ATG is out to solve real-world problems our customers may face.

Some of the technologies that ATG is currently investing in include:

  • New storage technologies such as flash memory
  • Simplified data management
  • Data center virtualization
  • "Green" technology, including modeling power usage and benchmarks for power
  • Highly scalable storage platforms
  • Content and metadata indexing for petabyte-scale storage

We partner with NetApp engineering and product management to commercialize the breakthroughs, with the goal of creating new products that will provide real business value for our customers. Established in 2004, ATG has sites in Sunnyvale, California; Waltham, Massachusetts; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and Bangalore, India.