May 15, 2002
In fact, according to a recent study by INPUT7 NetApp solutions deliver a 70% to 80% lower TCO than competitive offerings, dramatically improving a customer’s return on investment.
In today’s highly competitive market, Network Appliance™ solutions give you the edge in price, performance, and technology. The simplicity of our approach lets you offer the optimum solutions for the key challenges that your customers face today—storage consolidation, data-center operations, business continuance, and global storage management.
Storage Consolidation
Managing the explosive growth of data is a monumental challenge. The way that customers store data and make it available has become a strategic advantage in a wide range of business operations. The Network Appliance approach lets customers consolidate storage from hundreds or thousands of servers using simple, powerful tools that let them manage storage efficiently in a mixed networking environment.
“Storage is already as big as an elephant and getting bigger. It’s time to stop ignoring it and start strategizing how you’re
going to deal with it.” CIO MAGAZINE
storage will be sold in 20022. By 2003, storage could consume up to two-thirds of the corporate IT budget3.
In fact, networked storage is expected to grow 45.7% CAGR between 2000-20044and comprise almost 75% of the storage market by 20045. By 2005, networked storage revenues are forecast to be $24.2 billion6.
Solution selling, combining hardware, software, and services, will increasingly drive the storage market creating tremen- dous opportunities for resellers. In this rapidly emerging market, you should be selling the most innovative storage solutions in the business—Network Appliance.
Network Appliance: The Industry’s Highest ROI and Lowest TCO
Network Appliance creates simple, scala- ble, and highly cost-efficient storage delivered in an innovative form: the storage appliance—flexible systems designed for storing, serving, and protecting information. NetApp® appliances set the standard for simplicity, ease of administration, and the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and highest return on investment (ROI)
in data storage.
The inherent reliability of NetApp solutions also means that you can meet the critical storage needs of your customers with total confidence. NetApp solutions deliver
aproven, industry-leading data availability of greater than 99.99%. This translates to mere minutes of unplanned downtime a year—not hours or days.
Data-Center Operations
More than just applications and hardware, a customer’s data center is the heart of its operations, controlling the flow of information where and when it’s needed. Network Appliance storage solutions provide simple, fast, centrally managed data protection and optimize the perform- ance of existing storage resources, allowing network administrators to perform complex tasks quickly. Time-consuming jobs such as reallocating storage space and backing up terabytes of data take just a few minutes.
1Source: www2.cio.com/research/surveyreport.cfm?id=72
2Source: www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/ features/article/0,,10564_1144871,00.html.
3Source: IDC, 2001; InfoStor, 2001
4Source: Gartner Dataquest, 2001
5Source: Wit Soundview, 2000
6Source: The Yankee Group, 2002
7Source: www.netapp.com/tco/tco_studies.html
