NetApp and VMware Tighten Joint Engineering, Marketing, Service, and Support
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Tuesday August 7, 8:00 am ET
Companies Extend Best Practices From More Than 3,000 Real-World Deployments to Customers Around the World
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), a leading provider of storage and data management solutions, announced today that it has strengthened its relationship with VMware, the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, to collaborate on joint engineering, marketing, service, and support. This relationship covers many of the best practices in engineering, marketing, customer education and advocacy, service, and support that the two companies have developed over the last few years in real-world deployments at more than 3,000 customer sites. It also underscores that the value of server virtualization is dramatically increased with the addition of robust networked storage on the back end. Direct-attached storage (DAS) and in-server storage are simply not the answer in enterprise-class virtualized environments.
The NetApp-VMware relationship is designed to enable the two companies to work on joint engineering solutions for advanced application mobility, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery. Together NetApp and VMware are focused on making virtualized server, desktop, and storage infrastructures operate seamlessly to deliver agile, available, and cost-effective IT environments to enterprise customers. |
