Network Appliance Continues Enterprise Penetration
Wednesday November 29, 7:33 am Eastern Time
Press Release
Network Appliance Continues Enterprise Penetration
Announces Key Partnerships and Enhanced Product Offerings
Mainframe Connectivity Support for IBM OS/390, Support for IBM DB2, Powerful New Anti-Virus
Functionality, and Record-Setting Performance Demonstrate NetApp® Solutions Superiority
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000-- Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP - news), the leading provider of
network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, extended its enterprise reach and prowess today by:
Completing IBM OS/390 testing, expanding connectivity of Network Appliance(TM) filers into mainframe data center infrastructures and
complementing the company's UNIX® and Windows NT® end-to-end deployments
Announcing IBM DB2 database support, enabling Network Appliance to expand its presence into more database management solutions
such as data warehousing, and opening up new market segments for NetApp solutions with IBM's DB2 Universal Database customers
Incorporating powerful new anti-virus software functionality into its product portfolio and partnering with industry leaders McAfee.com,
Symantec, and Trend Micro to seamlessly integrate Network Appliance anti-virus solutions with enterprise customers' infrastructures
Demonstrating the industry's highest throughput performance and fastest response times for a networked storage solution as measured by
SPEC
These new developments at Network Appliance underscore the company's continued strength and expertise as an enterprise storage provider and
reflect the company's unique end-to-end value proposition for moving, managing, and protecting data and rich content from the data center to the
network edge. Additional details are available in four separate press releases issued today.
``Today's announcements compellingly demonstrate why Network Appliance is winning in the enterprise,'' said Network Appliance CEO Dan
Warmenhoven. ``With proven new database applications support, powerful new software functionality, and record-setting SPEC performance for
our filers, we are poised to expand our enterprise market penetration, reinforce our leadership in NAS, and create new opportunities in broader
storage networking markets.''
As Warmenhoven continued, ``We are at the crossroads of three exciting, fundamental changes happening in the industry. First, thanks to a variety
of new applications including the Internet and content delivery networks, data and content are exploding rapidly and the demands on IT
infrastructures to keep pace with this growth are tremendous. Second, server boxes are becoming `deconstructed' and customers look to
functional experts to solve special computing challenges such as storage and content delivery. Third, the Internet computing model is fast becoming
the enterprise computing model. Open standards, sharing data and content globally, constant uptime and availability, and lightning-fast response
times define the New Economy. Network Appliance is at the forefront of these changes, and our customers will benefit from our pioneering
approach to solving today's and tomorrow's enterprise data management challenges.''
``Network Appliance continues to impress customers with its growing enterprise portfolio,'' said Steve Duplessie, senior analyst at Enterprise
Storage Group. ``The company has a real talent for anticipating where markets are headed, and creating products and solutions that address those
markets head-on. These latest announcements from Network Appliance demonstrate that the company anticipates what enterprises want and
need, and reinforce why enterprises around the world continue to choose NetApp solutions as a vital enabler of their business success.''
Network Appliance's expanding enterprise solutions debut just two months after the company's launch of the F840 and F840c enterprise storage
appliances which dramatically increased NetApp solutions scalability and performance; and one month after the company announced its C6100,
C1105, and NetCache(TM) 5.0, ContentDirector(TM), and ContentReporter(TM) software that established Network Appliance as the leading
end-to-end content infrastructure supplier.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc., a veteran in network file storage and content delivery, has been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a
member of both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 index. Major corporations and service providers, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities,
Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions.
The company pioneered the concept of the ``network appliance,'' an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that
perform a single function. NetApp storage and content delivery platforms (filers and NetCache appliances) are coupled with powerful content
distribution and reporting software. This end-to-end solution offers seamless data management from the back-end data center to the edge of the
network quickly, simply, and reliably. The Network Appliance product portfolio utilizes the company's innovative data access software, known as
the Data ONTAP(TM) operating system, as well as standards-compliant hardware. It also offers multiprotocol support and transparent integration
for UNIX and Windows® environments.
NetApp is a registered trademark and Network Appliance, NetCache, ContentReporter, ContentDirector, and Data ONTAP are trademarks of
Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX
is a registered trademark of X/Open Company Limited, in the U.S. and other countries. IBM is a trademark of the International Business Machines
Corporation, in the United States and other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
holders and should be treated as such.
Contact:
Network Appliance Inc., Sunnyvale
Adam Trunkey, 408/822-6314
atrunkey@netapp.com
or
Eric Brown, 408/822-3463
ebrown@netapp.com
or
Jaime Leigh Jinks, 408/822-3761
jjinks@netapp.com |
