15,000 Production Deployments of NetApp SAN Solutions

NetApp announced that its customers have
fueled a significant company milestone with 15,000 production
deployments of NetApp SAN (storage area network) solutions.
Customer adoption of NetApp in the data center has made the company
one of the storage industry’s fastest growing enterprise SAN solution
providers, out pacing FC market growth and extending its market
leadership in IP SAN solutions.

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems
Tracker, Q3 2007, NetApp outpaced the FC SAN market growth both
sequentially and year-over-year in terms of revenue and capacity,
increasing FC SAN revenue at more than four times the rate of the
overall FC SAN market and capacity at twice the rate of the overall
market. IDC’s Tracker also shows that NetApp continues to lead the NAS
and iSCSI storage markets in Q307, maintaining the number-one market
share positions in capacity shipped for NAS (38.7%) and in iSCSI for
both capacity shipped (28.3%) and revenue (20.5%).

"NetApp continues to demonstrate strong market growth in
enterprise SAN solutions for the data center," said Brad Nisbet,
program manager, Storage Systems, IDC. "Enterprise customers require a
compelling value proposition of improved data management and
simplicity. Based on market adoption, NetApp seems to be effectively
meeting this customer need."

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