Leading Technology for NetApp Customers

More than 30,000 customers have implemented Storage Area Network (SAN) from NetApp in the world. Business SAN (Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel over Ethernet) NetApp has grown more than doubled in the last two years by providing a series of cutting-edge technologies for NetApp customers, including thin provisioning, duplication of primary storage, and RAID-DP. NetApp also maximize the strong cooperation with companies such as Brocade, Cisco, Microsoft, and VMware.

SAN solutions from NetApp-based operating system, Data ONTAP, with cutting-edge technologies such as FlexVol, FlexClone, Snapshot, and RAID-DP, and NetApp Unified Storage Architecture across the board Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) NetApp to meet the needs and demands of its customers . NetApp is the only vendor SAN solution that supports iSCSI and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and support Network-Attached Storage (NAS) in a single integrated infrastructure.

FCoE is a logical development of the unified approach that NetApp storage provides customers Fiber Channel (FC) SAN an evolutionary stage for future migration path. NetApp helps customers improve storage utilization and efficiency, reduce costs, and combining the data protection capabilities as well as disaster recovery in a single storage platform, and at the same time could feel SAN performance and availability of the SAN industry leader.

Based on the report Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker from IDC in the third quarter of 2009, NetApp grew faster than the FC SAN market every year. When compared with the year 2008, NetApp get one point of revenue in the stock market, thus increasing the income shares for NetApp 6.2 percent in the first three quarters of 2009. In this capacity, NetApp grew two and a half times faster than the market each year and over 9.5 percent stake in the FC SAN market in the first quarter of 2009 until the third quarter.

"Growth in the realm of NetApp SAN market is undeniable, and this is NetApp's commitment to providing powerful technology in an environment that is easy to set," said Joel Reich, Vice President and general manager of the SAN / isan Business Unit NetApp .