NetApp Backs Virtualization Guarantee

NetApp, Inc. announced its $1 Million Virtualization Challenge contest to award NetApp storage hardware, software, and services to a qualifying new customer to reduce the company’s storage usage by 50% in a VMware environment.

Launched in September 2008, the NetApp Virtualization Guarantee Program offers customers a guarantee that they will use 50% less storage in their virtual environments with NetApp compared to traditional storage. NetApp is now taking the guarantee a step further by offering up to $1 million of NetApp technology and services to a new NetApp customer to further prove NetApp’s efficiency in VMware environments. As part of the challenge, an independent third party will benchmark and measure the impact of NetApp’s storage.

"We’re confident that customers will use 50% less storage with NetApp, so we’re willing to put our money where our mouth is with the $1 Million Virtualization Challenge contest," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "Customers are proving that NetApp storage-efficiency technologies such as thin provisioning, deduplication, RAID-DP, and Snapshot can help realize unprecedented space savings in virtual infrastructures. This is a great opportunity for a company that is facing the pressure of cost reduction to address its storage challenges and demonstrate the business impact of its NetApp and VMware environment."

Eligibility and Requirements
To enter NetApp’s $1 Million Virtualization Challenge contest, an entrant must be a new NetApp customer and in good standing as a corporation that is incorporated and registered to do business in an eligible state. All entries must be received by September 21, 2009. The select customer will be chosen by Network World and a NetApp committee and be awarded up to $1 million of NetApp hardware, software, and services.