NetApp Founder Dave Hitz to Drive Discussion Around Storage Efficiency at Oracle OpenWorld 2010


SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - September 9, 2010) -  NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) Founder and Executive Vice President Dave Hitz will present an Executive Solutions session focusing on storage efficiency at Oracle OpenWorld 2010. Other NetApp executives, experts, and customers will also present at the show. NetApp is a Premier sponsor of Oracle OpenWorld 2010, which takes place September 19-23, 2010, at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

During the show, NetApp will demonstrate how NetApp® with Oracle® can not only be a storage platform for customers, but also a storage efficiency solution. The NetApp booth (1501) will also feature NetApp data management solutions for Oracle that lower costs and improve efficiency.

Following is a list of the various sessions NetApp will present during Oracle OpenWorld:

Session:   Executive Solutions Session: "Addition by Subtraction: The New Equation for Your Data Center"
Speakers:   Dave Hitz, founder and executive vice president, NetApp
    Rich Bernat, senior DBA/Basis administrator, Chevron
Date:   Monday, September 20
Time:   12:30-1:30 p.m., PT
     
Session:   "NetApp SOA Journey: Adoption of Oracle Application Integration Architecture"
Speakers:   Alok Arora, director, Enterprise Architecture, NetApp
    Kailash Randad, architect, NetApp
    Raman Mehta, Solution director, Oracle
Date:   Tuesday, September 21
Time:   5:00-6:00 p.m., PT
     
Session:   "Modernize Your Data Center with Oracle Virtualization and NetApp"
Speakers:   Rich Clifton, senior vice president and general manager, Technology Enablement & Solutions Organization, NetApp
    Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization, Oracle
    Padmanabhan Sadagopan, Solutions architect, NetApp
    Stephen Bartholomew, Enterprise architect, Verizon
Date:   Wednesday, September 22
Time:   10:00-11:00 a.m., PT
     
Session:   "Sprint Case Study: Creating the World's Largest Call-Tracking Data Warehouse"
Speakers:   Steve Daniel, director, Database Platforms and Performance Technology, NetApp
    Richard Ewald, Sprint
Date:   Wednesday, September 22
Time:   1:00-2:00 p.m., PT
     
Session:   "Introduction and Update: Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management"
Speakers:   Luda Shuster, NetApp
    Rahul Kamath, director, Product Strategy, Oracle
Date:   Wednesday, September 22
Time:   4:45-5:45 p.m., PT
     
Session:   "Extreme Throughput with Oracle Real Application Clusters, 10 GbE, and NetApp"
Speakers:   Brandon Hoang, senior Oracle Alliance architect, NetApp
    Ruiping Sun, principal architect, Yahoo, Inc.
Date:   Thursday, September 23
Time:   1:30-2:30 p.m., PT
     
Session:   "CERN Achieves Database Scalability and Performance with Oracle and NetApp"
Speakers:   Steve Daniel, director, Database Platforms and Performance Technology, NetApp
    Eroc Grancher, DBA team leader, CERN
Date:   Thursday, September 23
Time:   3:00-4:00 p.m., PT

NetApp Booth: 1501

Registration: For complete information or to register for the event, please visit: www.oracle.com/us/openworld/

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