NetApp Offers Zero Investment Promise* to Improve Efficiency of EMC and HP SAN Environments
EMC and HP Customers Can Confidently Reduce Storage Capacity and Costs With NetApp V-Series
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - October 12, 2009) - In an effort to help customers maximize the
value of their existing storage investments, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today
announced its Zero Investment Promise* Program (ZIP Program) to help EMC
and HP customers improve the efficiency of their storage area network (SAN)
environments.
The ZIP Program enables EMC and HP customers to achieve greater efficiency
on SAN storage systems that they already purchased and deployed by
recovering capacity that can be inefficiently used and helping reduce the
ongoing rate of storage consumption. Under terms of the ZIP Program,
customers with EMC and HP SANs that deploy NetApp® V-Series could reduce
storage capacity and the associated costs of their existing third-party
storage investments. NetApp is so confident about this that NetApp is
willing to put it in writing.
NetApp's unique portfolio of storage efficiency technologies enables
customers to perform data management tasks faster; use less storage; and at
the same time reduce their overall power, space, and cooling costs in their
data centers. NetApp storage efficiency is especially beneficial for a wide
range of application environments. Based on third party total cost of
ownership (TCO) studies, NetApp customers have a 38% lower TCO for
VMware®, 39% lower for Oracle®, 44% lower for file services, and 55%
lower for SAP®.
"Improved storage efficiency helps our customers relieve the pressure of IT
budget reductions and minimize the risks of new SAN projects," said Patrick
Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "If a customer
already owns an EMC or HP SAN, NetApp V-Series can free additional storage
within their existing storage systems without the need to replace their
current storage investment. We're so confident in our storage efficiency
capabilities that we will promise customers, under the terms of the ZIP
Program, that if they use NetApp V-Series to augment their EMC and HP SAN
environments and don't see savings, we'll let them keep the equipment at no
charge."
NetApp V-Series is an open storage controller family that unifies NetApp
and third-party storage under a common storage architecture. V-Series
customers can take full advantage of the powerful features of Data ONTAP®
such as deduplication, thin provisioning, and Snapshot™ technology to
help improve storage efficiency and simplify data management.
Availability and Requirements
Direct customers in the United States and Canada that implement a new
V-Series system in their EMC or HP SAN environments are eligible to take
advantage of the NetApp ZIP Program today. NetApp pledges, based on the
terms of the ZIP Program, that by deploying V-Series users will reduce
their physical storage requirements and potentially receive a payback on
their V-Series investment. The ZIP Program agreement will stipulate the
agreed-upon storage savings and price of the equipment and provide
customers a free 90-day trial of the equipment to realize storage
efficiencies and help reduce operating costs. NetApp Professional Services
will partner with customers to help the trial period be as smooth as
possible. If after 90 days upon receipt of the equipment the agreed-upon
storage savings is achieved, the customer will issue a purchase order and
be invoiced by NetApp at the agreed-upon price of the equipment. If after
90 days the customer files an approved claim that the storage savings is
not achieved, the customer will keep the equipment at no charge. In all
cases, customers are responsible for all applicable taxes.
For more information, visit www.netapp.com/zip, where you can find more
details about the NetApp ZIP Program. To learn more about how NetApp
storage efficiency technologies can help manage the growth of your data and
lead to higher storage utilization and lower costs, visit
www.netapp.com/us/company/leadership/storage-efficiency/.
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*The Zero Investment Promise Program ("ZIP Program") is limited to the
terms set forth in www.netapp.com/zip. These terms are applicable only to
prospective orders placed after the ZIP Program effective date and are
dependent upon participant's compliance with the terms and conditions set
forth in the ZIP Program and any of the instruction sets and specifications
set forth in the referenced documents. NetApp's sole and exclusive
liability and participant's sole and exclusive remedy associated with the
terms of the ZIP Program and related documentation is the provision by
NetApp of the equipment as described in the ZIP Program terms and
conditions.
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such.
Contact Information: Press Contact:
Roger Villareal
NetApp
(408) 822-1959
rogerv@netapp.com