Sunnyvale, Calif.-March 1,
2010-NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced a significant
milestone in enterprise SAN deployments, with more than 30,000
customer storage area network (SAN) production deployments
worldwide. NetApp has more than doubled its SAN business (Fibre
Channel, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet) in just two years
by providing customers with an impressive list of technologies,
including thin provisioning, deduplication on primary storage, and
RAID-DP®, and maximizing strong solution partnerships with
companies such as Brocade, Cisco, Microsoft, and VMware.
NetApp SAN solutions are based on the Data
ONTAP® operating system, which provides breakthrough
technologies such as FlexVol®, FlexClone®,
Snapshot™, and RAID-DP, and on NetApp® Unified Storage
Architecture across NetApp's entire line of fabric-attached storage
(FAS) systems to meet customers' needs. NetApp is the only SAN
solutions vendor to support iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) natively, and also to support network-attached storage (NAS)
with a truly unified, single architecture. FCoE is a logical
progression of NetApp's unified storage approach that provides an
evolutionary path for Fibre Channel (FC) SAN customers to migrate
over time. NetApp helps customers increase utilization and storage
efficiency, decrease costs, and combine data protection and
disaster recovery capabilities in a single storage platform, while
at the same time enjoying industry-leading SAN performance and
availability.
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk
Storage Systems Tracker, Q3 2009, NetApp grew faster than the FC
SAN market year over year. Compared to 2008, NetApp gained one
point of revenue market share, resulting in a revenue share of 6.2%
in the first three quarters of 2009. In terms of capacity, NetApp
grew two and a half times the rate of the market year over year and
held 9.5% capacity share in the FC SAN market in Q1 through Q3
2009.
"We compared several SAN solutions, in some
cases from existing vendor relationships," said Thomas Gessel,
senior vice president and technology officer at TruWest Credit
Union. "Despite the inside track that some storage solutions had,
we found that NetApp provided the best overall solution. The
flexibility of NFS, SMB 2.X, and Fibre Channel connected storage
provides our business with the right type of storage access
regardless of the application, and helps us better fulfill our
business requirements."
"We were having trouble scaling our storage
and finding a reliable backup and recovery routine to cover many
disparate systems," said Alekseiv Pavlinik, network administrator
at The College of Saint Rose. "That's why we turned to NetApp. With
our NetApp solution, now we have a fast and reliable backup and
recovery solution that supports our Fibre Channel, SMB 2.X, and
iSCSI systems all on one network, and it just makes our life
easier."
"Our growth in the SAN space is undeniable,
and underscores our commitment to providing customers with robust
technologies and easy-to-manage environments," said Joel Reich,
vice president and general manager of the SAN/iSAN Business Unit at
NetApp. "By offering our customers a full range of solutions that
address their high-performance and storage efficiency needs, we
will continue to drive this tremendous growth across our SAN
business."
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