FRANKFURT, Germany - October 26,
2010 -Fujitsu and NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced
they are extending their strong, long-standing global partnership
to help customers maximize the value they get from their IT
investments. IT leaders today are under increasing pressure to
respond faster to the needs of the business. With this agreement,
the two companies deliver one-stop shopping for integrated storage
solutions that accelerate business results for their customers. The
expanded global partnership and extended resale agreements continue
a long track record of delivering customer success, allowing
business customers to increase their IT efficiency and
standardization and satisfy all of their unified storage foundation
needs with Fujitsu and NetApp.
As part of the extended partnership, the
companies will offer a shared portfolio of products to meet the
integrated storage needs of business customers. NetApp will resell
the Fujitsu ETERNUS CS800 S2 Data Protection Appliance in 22
countries across EMEA. Fujitsu will expand its resale of NetApp's
unified storage systems to more markets worldwide. Maintenance and
support services as well as managed services across the full shared
portfolio will continue to be supplied by Fujitsu, the
third-largest global IT services company.
Designed to broaden access to efficient data
protection in the midmarket, the ETERNUS CS800 S2 is a turnkey data
protection appliance that provides a simple and affordable solution
for customers who follow a disk backup strategy with deduplication.
The advanced deduplication technology reduces typical capacity
requirements for disk-to-disk backup by as much as 90%, helping
customers reduce storage costs. Backup data replication between
global sites also uses deduplication to reduce typical network
bandwidth needs by a factor of 20 or more.
"Fujitsu's global partnership with NetApp
creates a well-matched and comprehensive storage portfolio that
benefits our customers first and foremost," said Kazuhiro Igarashi,
president of the Storage Systems Unit, Fujitsu Limited. "We've
simplified how customers can buy integrated solutions as part of
our comprehensive Dynamic Infrastructures portfolio, and helped
them increase IT efficiency and flexibility. Fujitsu customers see
the value we provide with NetApp, not the least due to Fujitsu's
global service expertise across the combined product range."
Fujitsu is an industry leader in enterprise
solutions, and its broad portfolio of storage technologies,
including the ETERNUS family and NetApp, are critical components of
the Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures concept of highly reliable
data-center products and solutions. NetApp provides an
industry-leading unified storage portfolio to build a flexible and
efficient shared IT infrastructure today as a foundation for
tomorrow's business requirements. Customers can now easily purchase
and deploy these complementary, integrated technologies to quickly
address their business needs.
"Customers are looking for ways to move to
more integrated, shared IT infrastructure solutions to increase the
flexibility and speed of the response of IT to the business," said
Rick Scurfield, vice president and general manager of Global System
Partners, NetApp. "The partnership between NetApp and Fujitsu
provides powerful storage products and solutions designed to
address this need, along with services and support to help
customers accelerate the move to a more integrated and flexible
shared IT infrastructure."
As a result of joint research and development
efforts during their 10-year global partnership, the companies have
delivered tightly integrated and automated data management
products, solutions, and services that help customers more quickly
adapt to changes in their business environments. To date, Fujitsu
has sold over 15,000 NetApp unified storage systems to customers
who recognize the flexibility and efficiency that these offerings
deliver for their IT environments. For example, NetApp, Fujitsu,
and other solutions partners recently teamed up to build a global
50,000-seat desktop virtualization reference architecture, making
it easier for customers to replicate and deploy virtualized dynamic
infrastructures. Additionally, Fujitsu's ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser
and ServerView Resource Orchestrator now support NetApp unified
storage, making it simpler for joint customers to better analyze,
control, and automate their shared IT infrastructure.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of ICT-based business solutions for
the global marketplace. With approximately 170,000 employees
supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide
corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable
computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics
to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo,
Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6
trillion yen (US$50 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31,
2010. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com.
About Fujitsu Technology
Solutions
Fujitsu Technology Solutions is the leading European IT
infrastructure provider with a presence in all key markets in
Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus India, serving large-,
medium- and small-sized companies as well as consumers. With its
Dynamic Infrastructures approach, the company offers a full
portfolio of IT products, solutions and services, ranging from
clients to datacenter solutions, Managed Infrastructure and
Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Fujitsu Technology Solutions employs
more than 13,000 people and is part of the global Fujitsu Group.
For more information, please see: ts.fujitsu.com/aboutus.
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About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business
breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around
the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. To read more about the
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Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements
within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. The forward-looking statements contained herein represent
NetApp's and Fujitsu's beliefs regarding future events, many of
which are, by their nature, inherently uncertain and outside the
parties' control. Forward-looking statements include, but are not
limited to, statements regarding the benefits of NetApp's and
Fujitsu's expanded partnership and respective products, market
opportunities, and competitive strengths, as well as strategies,
plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, and other
statements that are not historical facts.
NetApp cautions readers that the
forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from the results anticipated by such statements.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements include the
risk that the benefits of the partnership may not be fully realized
or may take longer to realize than expected; disruption from the
partnership making it more difficult to maintain relationships with
customers, employees, or suppliers; risks associated with the
anticipated growth in storage and data management markets; and
other important factors as described in NetApp's reports and
documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. NetApp disclaims any obligation to update and revise
the forward-looking statements contained in these materials based
on new information or otherwise.