NetApp Accelerates Time To Market

NetApp Accelerates Time To Market With New Engineering And High-Performance Computing Solutions

New FAS3100 and V3100 Storage System Series, Storage Acceleration Appliance, and Performance Acceleration Module Enable Customers to Transform Their Technical Computing Environments

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - June 11, 2008 -NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced new solutions to help customers transform their engineering data centres and high-performance computing environments.

Peter O'Connor, Area Vice President at NetApp Australia and New Zealand said, "In today's competitive market environment and economic uncertainty, customers are looking for innovative solutions and support that will further drive cost and complexity out of their data centres."

"We are helping customers transform their data centres to achieve a greater competitive business advantage and solve real-world problems of time to market and engineering staff productivity. We are committed to driving innovation in the engineering and high-performance computing data centre that will deliver greater performance and scalability and strengthen our promise of being a trusted partner-something our customers and channel and technology partners expect from NetApp."

To help customers get more performance and scalability out of their storage, NetApp has introduced the following new products:

* FAS3100 and V3100 storage system series: NetApp's new FAS3140 and FAS3170 storage systems enable customers to meet their diverse storage needs and achieve high levels of availability for their critical business operations and technical applications. The NetApp(r) FAS3100 series provides improved performance and scalability over other midrange storage systems. While competitive offerings provide disparate products that create additional integration and collaboration issues, NetApp helps customers maximise their engineering staff productivity with a single unified architecture approach and a common suite of application-aware software and management tools that are inherent in the Data ONTAP(r) operating system, including powerful features such as thin provisioning, deduplication, Snapshot(tm), RAID-DP(r), and FlexVol(r). NetApp's new V3140 and V3170 extend virtualisation to other vendors' legacy arrays and leverage the same Data ONTAP operating system that is the foundation of all virtualisation functions and integration in NetApp FAS systems. This gives customers the same architecture, software, and management tools for a true, powerful differentiator in multi-vendor environments.

* Storage Acceleration Appliance: The Storage Acceleration Appliance-which includes three models, the SA200, SA300, and SA600-is based on NetApp FlexCache(tm) technology. It represents the first caching appliance available from a major storage systems vendor. It can be used to accelerate performance at the data centre where the central data repository is located or to improve response time and enhance collaboration within remote offices. Now customers can leverage FlexCache with both Data ONTAP 7G and Data ONTAP GX to achieve better performance and protect their existing investments without rearchitecting their technical computing environments.

* Performance Acceleration Module: This add-on intelligent read cache provides a new way to optimise performance of mainstream storage platforms. Now customers have a cost-effective means for improving performance for workloads that are random-read intensive such as file serving. One or more modules fit into PCI Express slots of an existing storage controller, where they function as a read cache to increase throughput and reduce latency. This gives customers a cost-effective, innovative way to scale their storage systems without having to add additional disk drives to increase I/O rates. Additionally, the module consumes 95% less power than a shelf of Fibre Channel disk drives.

NetApp Delivers Superior Performance in the Engineering Data Centre With the introduction of the FAS3100 series, NetApp has published two new industry standard performance benchmarks across different storage workloads. Representing file services-based workloads, which are prevalent in engineering data centres and technical computing, NetApp posted a SPEC_SFS97 score of 137,306 IOPS with 0.94ms overall response time (ORT) with the FAS3170. Carrying on the strong performance that NetApp published earlier this year in transaction-based (OLTP) workloads, NetApp posted a new SPC Benchmark 1 (SPC1(tm)) score of 60,515.34 SPC-1 IOPS(tm) with the FAS3170. These results show that NetApp FAS platforms continue to provide data at rates needed to keep the most demanding applications running smoothly. Complete benchmark results can be found at www.spec.org/sfs97r1/results/ and http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00066.

Enhanced Support Capabilities for the Engineering Data Centre In addition to today's solutions and product news, NetApp introduced enhanced support capabilities to help customers realise the NetApp advantage in their engineering data centres. NetApp Remote Support Agent is an intelligent remote diagnostics data collector that is embedded in the NetApp system. Simple to use and install, the Remote Support Agent will proactively open support tickets and allow NetApp support engineers to remotely access system log files to quickly diagnose and resolve issues. In addition, NetApp Professional Services enable customers to realise the full advantage of NetApp products for the engineering data centre with assessment, implementation, and management services that accelerate customers' data centre transformation. To learn more about NetApp Professional Services, visit www.netapp.com/us/services/professional/.

Pricing and Availability
All customer pricing for products described in this media release is available from NetApp sales or reseller partners. All new products and support are available immediately. To learn more about how NetApp is helping customers transform their engineering data centres and high-performance computing environments, please visit http://www.netapp.com/us/company/leadership/data-center-transformation/.

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Additional Resources
For more information on NetApp's vision for the future of enterprise storage and a scale-out architecture, read the white paper "Scale-Out Storage and the Dynamic Data Centre," at http://media.netapp.com/documents/wp-7042.pdf. The paper describes the requirements for scale-out storage in the enterprise in terms of resiliency, scalability, manageability, and other factors and discusses the current state of NetApp scale-out deployments as well as specific operational and business advantages that the NetApp approach delivers to the enterprise data centre.

Also, visit NetApp TechTalk online events at www.netapp.com/news/techtalk/podcasts-on-demand.html for a podcast with Jay Kidd, NetApp's chief marketing officer, titled "Transforming the Engineering Data Centre" for his perspective on NetApp's latest innovations, which are giving engineering customers a competitive edge. In a separate podcast titled "How NetApp Data ONTAP GX Simplifies Capacity and Performance Growth," Bruce Moxon, Vice President of Strategic Technology at NetApp, discusses how enterprises can run their most demanding applications using a scale-out storage architecture that provides nondisruptive upgrades and transparent data migrations.

About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

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