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"We believe our position in the Gartner Leaders quadrant is a testament to NetApp's strengths as a provider of innovative storage and data management solutions that address our customers' current and future business requirements," said Jay Kidd, senior vice president, Storage Solutions Group at NetApp. "As customers move to shared IT infrastructures, NetApp provides the storage platform our customers require, and our unified architecture delivers the flexibility and efficiency customers demand to drive business impact."
NetApp provides the storage platform of choice to help customers make the transition to a flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructure -- the foundation for cloud computing. Newly announced platform features, products, and technologies help customers move from a siloed infrastructure to a shared IT infrastructure that addresses today's rapidly evolving business requirements. With the NetApp® Unified Storage Architecture, customers can support many applications, diverse workloads, and changing requirements through a single platform and set of processes to reduce complexity and drive down costs. NetApp storage systems deliver one of the industry's most cost-effective platforms for higher performance and enterprise availability, to support today's midrange storage requirements and to adapt to future changes. NetApp's innovative storage and data management technologies such as scale up and scale out, unified architecture, secure multi-tenancy, storage efficiency, and service automation and analytics help customers capitalize on new growth opportunities and drive greater efficiencies. For more information regarding NetApp's storage systems, visit http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/.
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1 "Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays" by Roger Cox, Stan Zaffos, Pushan Rinnen, and Jimmie Chang, November 2010.
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