World Wide Technology Reselling NetApp Portfolio of Flash Systems

World Wide
Technology, Inc. (WWT), a systems integrator that
provides technology and supply chain solutions, expanded its
enterprise storage portfolio by committing to sell and support the NetApp, Inc. portfolio of flash solutions,
including the new NetApp EF540 flash array.

Through this offering, WWT can help its customers maximize the value of flash
across the entire IT stack, improving application performance and
responsiveness while improving the overall efficiency of data center
operations.

"WWT
is leveraging cutting-edge technologies like enterprise flash storage to
accelerate application performance and lower costs for enterprises harnessing
cloud computing, virtualization and big data," said Bob Olwig, VP of
business strategy with WWT. "As a
longstanding NetApp Star Partner, we have always worked closely with NetApp to
deliver solutions that are simpler, more manageable and faster to deploy than
traditional enterprise storage products. The recent NetApp enterprise flash
announcement demonstrates their storage and data management leadership and
provides us with a new set of products to help our customers meet their
business goals and mission critical IT needs."

The NetApp flash solutions portfolio spans
the IT stack – from server to storage – and include both hybrid as well as all
SSD storage offerings to solve the broadest range of business challenges. It improves I/O performance and accelerates response times for applications, including database acceleration, server and desktop
virtualization, and cloud infrastructure. These flash solutions help customers
speed overall IT performance, improve utilization of data center space, and
reduce power and cooling costs.

"The
new NetApp EF540 flash array and proven portfolio of storage and data
management products deliver business results faster, stop over-provisioning and
dramatically improve the ROI of IT investments," said Todd Palmer, VP,
Americas channel sales, NetApp. "We
are pleased to count World Wide Technology as an early supporter of our new
flash products, as WWT’s sales, engineering and support teams consistently
demonstrate a commitment to innovation as well as delivering and supporting the
very latest technology solutions that can have a positive impact on the
mission-critical IT environments of their customers."

WWT
specializes in delivering and supporting advanced technology solutions in the
areas of data center and virtualization, mobility and borderless networks,
unified communications and collaboration, and security. The company brings a
new way of thinking and anapproach to how organizations evaluate,
architect and implement technology. Through its Advanced Technology Center, WWT
provides its customers with technical and engineering expertise and hands on
access to the latest technology products and solutions. It also offers an array of configuration and integration services and a suite of
advanced logistics, inventory management and supply chain solutions.