Sunnyvale, Calif.-December 17,
2009- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that it has
been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant for
midrange enterprise disk arrays. In a recently released research
note, "Magic Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Disk
Arrays,"1 Gartner asserts, "Vendors in the Leaders
quadrant have the highest scores for their ability to execute and
completeness of vision. A midrange disk array storage vendor in the
Leaders quadrant has the market share, credibility, and marketing
and sales capabilities needed to drive the acceptance of new
technologies. They demonstrate a clear understanding of market
needs; they are innovators and thought leaders; and, they have
well-articulated plans that customers and prospects can use when
designing their storage infrastructures and strategies. In
addition, they have a presence in the five major geographical
regions, consistent financial performance, and broad platform
support."
"In my opinion, our position in the Gartner
Leaders quadrant is a testament to NetApp's commitment to providing
our customers with innovative storage and data management solutions
that help them achieve and exceed their business objectives and
reduce IT costs," said Manish Goel, executive vice president of
Product Operations, NetApp. "Due to our unified architecture and
industry-leading storage efficiency capabilities, NetApp® is
an ideal storage infrastructure of choice for today's virtualized
data center environments."
NetApp enables customers to drive down costs
while driving up operational efficiencies in their data center
thanks to a wide range of storage and data management technologies
and products, including deduplication on primary and secondary
data, thin provisioning, RAID-DP®, and FlexClone®, to
name a few. NetApp's seamless integration with server and desktop
virtualization infrastructures can provide customers with
additional flexibility and savings. Furthermore, NetApp's unified
storage architecture allows customers to address all of their
storage and data management needs through a single platform and set
of processes, helping to save time and resources.
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About the Magic
Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted November 30, 2009 by Gartner,
Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a
graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific
time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors
measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service
depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology
users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders"
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool,
and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner
disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost
efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around
the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
1 "Magic Quadrant for Midrange
Enterprise Disk Arrays" by Roger Cox, Stan Zaffos, and Pushan
Rinnen, November 2009.
NetApp, the NetApp logo, Go further,
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NetApp
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