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NetApp Named Microsoft 2009 Storage Solutions Partner of the Year
| Source: NetApp, Inc.
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - June 24, 2009) - NetApp (NASDAQ : NTAP ) today announced that it
has been named the Microsoft 2009 Partner of the Year, in the Advanced
Infrastructure, Storage Solutions category. NetApp was chosen out of an
international field of top Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading
customer solutions for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ environments. This award,
chosen by a panel of Microsoft judges, reflects NetApp's long-standing
partnership with Microsoft and its commitment to and success helping
Microsoft customers do more with less in Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint®
Server, SQL Server®, and Hyper-V environments.
NetApp was chosen as Solutions Partner of the Year based on its partnership
with Microsoft and complete solutions that help reduce customers' costs,
maximize storage efficiency, and improve availability in virtual
environments. With NetApp, Microsoft customers can reduce the amount of
storage they need by at least 50% when they also use NetApp® technologies
such as thin provisioning and deduplication. Earlier this year NetApp
announced a unique storage efficiency program that guarantees that
customers running Hyper-V environments will use 50% less storage with
NetApp compared to traditional storage*. The NetApp guarantee can help
minimize investment costs and risks while enabling customers to achieve
greater storage utilization in their virtual server and desktop
environments.
NetApp utilizes a variety of Windows® Server platform technologies to
improve storage system management and streamline backup, recovery, and
remote replication in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environments. In
addition, tight integration with the Microsoft System Center family of
products and additional application-integrated NetApp products help
maximize uptime for a wide variety of application environments, including
Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server. Since NetApp
storage solutions are tightly integrated with Microsoft's technologies,
customers are backed by NetApp's global customer support infrastructure,
which integrates Microsoft Premier Support.
By combining the ability to take snapshots of a running virtual machine via
Hyper-V with NetApp's unique approach to Snapshot™ copy backups, NetApp
also enables automated, consistent, space-efficient backup creation in a
matter of seconds. Not only can customers back up their environments more
frequently and meet existing or shrinking backup windows, with NetApp they
can store more backup copies and recover data twice as fast as with other
solutions in virtualized environments. Effective and efficient backup and
recovery also complement Microsoft business continuity features and help
customers implement more complete disaster recovery schemes while keeping
costs under control.
"We are very excited about working with NetApp to deliver innovative
end-to-end solutions to our joint customers," said Kim Akers, general
manager, Global Partner Team, at Microsoft. "The combination of our
technology with NetApp's storage solutions gives our customers the tools
they need to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and drive their businesses
forward."
"We are pleased to honor NetApp as our Advanced Infrastructure Storage
Solutions Partner of the Year," said Ross Brown, vice president, Solution
Partners and ISVs, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. "By pairing its
solutions with Microsoft's Hyper-V, NetApp is helping enterprise customers
leverage the power of virtualized environments to dramatically reduce costs
and increase availability so they can get the most out of their IT
infrastructure."
"Being chosen as Microsoft's Storage Partner of the Year is a great honor
for NetApp," said Jay Kidd, chief marketing officer at NetApp. "While this
award establishes NetApp as the leading storage solutions provider for
Microsoft virtualization customers, more than anything it underlines the
customer success our partnership and close collaboration has delivered."
For more information about Microsoft's Partner of the Year Awards, visit
www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/wwpc/default.mspx.
For more information about NetApp and Microsoft's Global Alliance
Partnership, visit
www.netapp.com/us/solutions/solution-partners/global-alliance/microsoft-partnership.html.
For more information about NetApp's 50% guarantee, visit
www.netapp.com/guarantee, where you can access program details including
FAQs, technical resources, best practices, and the new NetApp Storage
Efficiency Calculator to evaluate your current environment and learn how
NetApp storage-efficiency technologies can lead to higher storage
utilization.
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About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. To learn more about the history and culture of NetApp, get a copy of "How to Castrate a Bull" by NetApp founder Dave Hitz at www.howtocastrateabull.com. NetApp, the NetApp logo, Go further, faster, and Snapshot are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, SharePoint, Windows, and SQL Server are registered trademarks and Hyper-V is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. *This guarantee and related Program are limited to the terms set forth in www.netapp.com/guarantee applicable only to prospective orders placed after the Program effective date and are dependent upon your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in this document and any of the instruction sets and specifications set forth in the referenced documents. NetApp's sole and exclusive liability and your sole and exclusive remedy associated with the terms of this guarantee and related Program is the provision by NetApp of the additional storage capacity as set forth in this guarantee and related Program.
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. To learn more about the history and culture of NetApp, get a copy of "How to Castrate a Bull" by NetApp founder Dave Hitz at www.howtocastrateabull.com. NetApp, the NetApp logo, Go further, faster, and Snapshot are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, SharePoint, Windows, and SQL Server are registered trademarks and Hyper-V is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. *This guarantee and related Program are limited to the terms set forth in www.netapp.com/guarantee applicable only to prospective orders placed after the Program effective date and are dependent upon your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in this document and any of the instruction sets and specifications set forth in the referenced documents. NetApp's sole and exclusive liability and your sole and exclusive remedy associated with the terms of this guarantee and related Program is the provision by NetApp of the additional storage capacity as set forth in this guarantee and related Program.