NetApp to make storage simple and more cost-effective

Sunnyvale, California-based storage solutions company Network Appliance (NetApp) reinforced its goal of making storage simple and more cost-effective. Addressing an analyst conference in New York, NetApp CEO, Dan Warmenhoven emphasized the company’s growth strategy, which is built around anticipating customer needs, innovation, partnership with industry leaders, world-class support services and investment in people, processes and systems.

Dan stressed that these would be the key to NetApp’s growth. “We inspire to be the fastest growing company in storage,” he added. He emphasized about NetApp’s strategy of providing unified infrastructure for storage that would facilitate better economies of scale. “This is what customers are looking for,” Warmenhoven said and added that unification will fuel growth.

He also said that virtualization would be another key component of NetApp’s strategy. “The goal of virtualization at NetApp is to solve multiple problems with the same storage infrastructure and drive utilization up and management costs down,” he emphasized.

Storage is perhaps the most complex as also the most dynamic component of the IT infrastructure of any growing organization today. CIOs must ensure that the data is always managed in a way that makes them available all the time without any disruption to whoever their users are, whether inside or outside the organization. At every growing business organization data is growing at a hitherto unimaginable pace and is also acquiring new dimensions.

DAN WARMENHOVEN To have unified infrastructure for storage, which is cost-effective

Against this backdrop, organizations face the challenging task of planning and deploying a storage system that takes care of current requirement, simplifies management, provides them with the capability to scale up at will and also continuously achieve cost-effectiveness. They also need a storage system that not just integrates well with their core business strategy but also keeps pace with changes in the business. Unfortunately, not many storage systems can ensure this.

Network Appliance appears to realize all this well and that is the reason why it is working on to eliminate some of the key problems that most storage systems face today.

RAVI SHEKHAR PANDEY

(CyberMedia News)