Midsize businesses with growing business demands, limited resources and unprecedented data growth turn to NetApp

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Addendum: Customer and partner quote sheet:
NetApp works with many technology partners, channel partners, value-added resellers and systems integrators to deliver scalable, efficient and innovative solutions that help midsize businesses start right and grow with the needs of their businesses. Here's what some of them are saying:

* Norbert E. Kopp, ABO-Storage Distribution, AG, Switzerland: “More and more companies identify storage as a strategic asset dedicated to future growth. They look for a solution that protects their investment, delivers a fast ROI, and is easy to deploy and manage. NetApp's new unified storage offering, the FAS2240 offers a simple and smart product, that especially small and midsize companies value, as it offers them a flexible and powerful product designed for storing data efficiently, while reducing management costs.”

* Christian Jandl, CIO, ALPEN-MAYKESTAG: “The more business processes and servers a virtualised environment contains, the more important is the quality of the IT infrastructure and the right partners. Recognised for its high quality precision and high performance tools, ALPEN-MAYKESTAG strives to reflect that claim also in IT. Together with NetApp, we are doing very well. The FAS2000 platform just runs smoothly, and NetApp's software portfolio provides us with highly efficient functions that accelerate and protect our processes, while providing us with the headroom to meet new requirements.”

* Paul Sweeney, Managing Director, ANS Group: “Customers know that just buying storage is not the point today. They look for smart solutions that are easy to handle, help them grow, and offer rich functionality, at a sound price. NetApp's new FAS2240 is a perfect match for these requirements. Its innovative unified architecture and advanced storage efficiency build the ground for a completely new IT infrastructure set for higher flexibility and less management costs. Its dynamic scalability add to the flexibility a company needs at any time.”

* Jean-Philippe Bosseur, Global IT Director, Arthur D. Little: “Innovative management matters in both business and IT. Today, our shared infrastructure is our foundation to act faster and meet any business requirement. Also, in terms of cost savings, the investment in NetApp has paid off. Combining the space savings gained along with the reduction in staff, we have achieved an ROI in under a year.”

* William Chu, President, Avnet Technology Solutions, Asia Pacific: “The collaboration between Avnet and NetApp has proven successful both globally and regionally. With the uncertainty in global growth and the economy, customers have constant changing demands and are looking for improved value, scalability and simplicity in storage solutions. The features offered in NetApp's new models targeted to midsize businesses fit nicely into these growing market segments. Avnet and NetApp will continue to invest and strengthen our channel partners' ecosystems to offer value-added solutions to our partners and their customers to tap into these growing markets together.”

* Greg Flanik, Chief Information Officer, Baldwin-Wallace College: “With NetApp, we have achieved amazing results and have lowered our IT costs by 45%. The affordability and efficiencies we gained with our NetApp storage system resulted in major cost savings and a payback on our investment in the first 12 months. In a midsize environment, where people need to be multifaceted, the simplicity is key in enabling our team of IT generalists to manage our NetApp storage infrastructure and free up valuable time and expertise to focus on the business.”

* Alexander Freudenberg, Product Manager, Bechtle Logistik & Service GmbH: “We really appreciate that NetApp provides customers with product innovation and simplicity. The new FAS2240 is clearly positioned to accelerate the move of midsize companies to a unified architecture as a solid and scalable foundation for their IT, helping them to go further, faster.”

* Satinder Sethi, Director for Server, Access and Virtualisation Technology Group at Cisco: “As midsize customers balance their need to scale for their future growth with simplified solutions that can be rapidly deployed, Cisco is working with NetApp and other partners to deliver cost-effective, pre-tested cloud infrastructure solutions to address these needs. With NetApp, Cisco is working to combine the scalability, flexibility and manageability of Cisco UCS with NetApp storage to achieve maximum return on investment, while eliminating the need for costly forklift upgrades.”

* Suzanne Gallagher, Senior Vice-President, Marketing, Datalink: “Midsize businesses don't want to compromise when it comes to storage solution performance, efficiency and scalability. NetApp's new FAS2000 product line delivers on all fronts, including an affordable price. The FAS2000 line fits the needs of midsize companies focused on doing more with less and doesn't require them to compromise.”

* Sanjiv Khushu, CEO and Director, E Micro Data Technologies: “The mid-market in India is an emerging segment whose unique needs demand a specialist approach from technology vendors as well as partners. NetApp's storage solutions help address the need for enterprise-class functionalities at lower investments, while at the same time providing the flexibility and seamless scalability that will help customers' IT keep pace with rapid business growth. As a partner, I believe this solution will help us drive greater value for customers in this segment, in turn offering us a strong business opportunity.”

* Riccardo Maiarelli, CEO, ICOS: “With the new NetApp FAS2000 entry product line, NetApp delivers the ideal storage solutions for our customers in the midsize market. It offers customers a truly unified approach at a compelling price point, helping them build a flexible and secure storage infrastructure while reducing management costs. Thanks to NetApp's proven software functionality, customers choosing the new low-end are well positioned for future growth, while protecting their investment.”

* Bob Kelly, Corporate Vice-President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft: “Microsoft and NetApp have collaborated for more than a decade and bring a proven track record of delivering innovative joint solutions that leverage key technologies from both organisations, allowing customers to achieve greater efficiency, flexibility and business value. Working together, both NetApp and Microsoft are helping customers reduce costs, increase reliability, simplify management and respond quickly to changing business needs through the deep integration of our server, virtualisation, management and storage technologies.”

* Felix Losan, IT Director, Pierre Lang Europe Handelsgesellschaft mbH: “NetApp unified storage ideally supports our business model and meets the requirements of a midsize enterprise such as ours. A short learning curve for the system management allowed us to develop, test and realise our ideas rapidly.”

* Johan Milbrink, Data Centre Practice Manager, Presidio: “We are very excited about the launch of NetApp's new FAS2000 product line. Every day, Presidio helps clients leverage advanced IT solutions to achieve breakthrough gains in business performance. Our midsize clients, in particular, demand proven solutions that support their aggressive growth goals and yield efficiencies in their IT organisation. Just like larger enterprise organisations, our midsize clients face increasingly complex storage challenges and are under tremendous pressure to do more with less. The new FAS2000 product line provides an attractive option for clients looking for a scalable storage solution that is value-priced and easy to deploy. It will no doubt be a big winner in the marketplace.”

* Yeouido, Sung-Sik Lee, Team Leader, Information Support Team, St. Mary's Hospital: “St. Mary's Hospital built a NetApp solution three years ago as its PACS backup system, and has achieved great success. For our virtualisation project, we dramatically reduced our storage costs, one of the biggest costs in desktop virtualisation, using NetApp storage. Since NetApp supports both SAN and NAS from one storage system, we are able to achieve greater flexibility in a virtualised environment. In advance, synergy effect is expected because of its optimisation in VMware environments.”

* David Hekimian, CTO, Trace3: “At Trace3, our customers are always asking us to not only listen to their business challenges, but to help deliver IT solutions that match their business needs. NetApp's updates to the FAS2000 product line help Trace3 deliver powerful and efficient technology solutions that fit the varying needs of our customers' business today and into the future.”

* Gary Green, Vice-President, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware: “In today's economy, midsize companies require solutions that will allow them to do more with limited resources, respond faster to growing business demands and achieve greater IT efficiency. NetApp and VMware address these key requirements by providing a cost-effective and flexible joint solution optimised to take advantage of the full benefit of virtualisation with greater cost savings, higher availability, scalability and data protection. Working together, NetApp and VMware provide a tightly integrated solution to help customers start right and grow smart with an efficient infrastructure to handle future growth.”