NetApp Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Major Analyst Firm's Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software Magic Quadrant

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - May 1, 2012) - NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that Gartner, Inc. positioned NetApp in the Leaders quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software.¹ Storage resource management is critical to NetApp's ability to drive innovation that transforms business and to enable customers to gain the agility, efficiency, and flexibility to achieve successful business outcomes, as well as to offer partners the best technologies, solutions, and programs to grow their business.

In the recently released research report "Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software," Gartner asserts that vendors in the Leaders quadrant "have the highest combined measures of Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. They have the most comprehensive and scalable products. In terms of vision, they are perceived as thought leaders, with well-articulated plans for ease of use as well as how to address scalability and product breadth. For vendors to have long-term success, they must plan to address the expanded market requirements for change management, root cause analysis and performance analysis."

"We believe our position in the Gartner Leaders quadrant is strong recognition of NetApp^® storage management solutions and demonstrates the flexibility and efficiency our innovations offer customers to address their storage infrastructure manageability requirements," said Krish Padmanabhan, vice president of Manageability Products, NetApp. "As customers increasingly move to virtualized, shared infrastructures and service-based cloud environments, they are turning to NetApp OnCommand^® to maximize storage and service efficiency and drive greater business impact by leveraging powerful yet simple storage automation and analytics."

The NetApp OnCommand product portfolio of management software improves storage and service efficiency through functions that help customers control, automate, and analyze their shared storage infrastructure. Control products enable element management and monitoring of NetApp storage with System Manager, Report, and My AutoSupport™ products. Automate products, including Unified Manager and Workflow Automator, enable storage management at scale with policy-based automation, service catalog, and SnapManager^® software for application and platform awareness and protection. Analyze products represent the Insight and Balance products for performance, configuration, and capacity management of NetApp and third-party storage. Most recently, Insight Balance was selected the Gold Product of the Year for Best Storage Management Tool from Storage Magazine-SearchStorage.com. For more information regarding OnCommand, visit www.netapp.com/oncommand.

To view the Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software, visit http://www.netapp.com/templates/mediaView?m=ar-gartner-magic-quadrant%20-for-storage-resource.pdf&cc=us&wid=145885525&mid=145885525.

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¹ Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software, Valdis Filks, Gene Ruth, March 27, 2012

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