SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - 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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NetApp
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