26 Facts About NetApp

NetApp, Inc is an American hybrid cloud data services and data management company headquartered in San Jose, California.

NetApp was founded in 1992 by David Hitz, James Lau, and Michael Malcolm as Network Appliance, Inc At the time, its major competitor was Auspex Systems.

In 1994, NetApp received venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital.

In 2006, NetApp sold the NetCache product line to Blue Coat Systems.

In 2008, Network Appliance officially changed its legal name to NetApp, Inc, reflecting the nickname by which it was already well-known.

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In May 2018 NetApp announced its first End to End NVMe array called All Flash FAS A800 with release of ONTAP 9.

In 2009, NetApp ranked second in market capitalization in its industry behind EMC Corporation, now Dell EMC, and ahead of Seagate Technology, Western Digital, Brocade, Imation, and Quantum.

In total revenue of 2009, NetApp ranked behind EMC, Seagate, Western Digital, and ahead of Imation, Brocade, Xyratex, and Hutchinson Technology.

In 2002, in an attempt to increase market share, NetApp added block-storage access as well, supporting the Fiber Channel and iSCSI protocols.

Later NetApp announced the end of sale for hardware and virtual appliances.

NetApp HCI includes a web-based GUI with installation wizard called NetApp Deployment Engine for configuring vCenter, IP addresses, login and password, and storage nodes.

NetApp HCI is different from conventional HCI designs because it has dedicated storage nodes, while other HCI systems like Dell EMC VxRail or vSAN do not have dedicated storage nodes and utilize disk drives installed in each server.

NetApp Converged Systems Advisor is a software-as-a-service platform that consists of an on-premises agent and a cloud-based portal.

NetApp MAX Data for short, MAX Data is a proprietary Linux file system with auto-tiering from PMEM to SSD and data protection features for businesses.

NetApp officially announced MAX Data's availability at NetApp Insight 2018 in October, supported by a number of server brands.

Currently, NetApp has recommended ratio for MAX Data as 1 to 25 for Tier 1 and Tier 2 respectively.

MAX Data according to NetApp will have two modes: to use MAX Data as a POSIX-compatible file system or as API memory extension.

NetApp planning to extend SaaS Backup and recovery service for Google Workspace, Slack and ServiceNow.

NetApp provides a variety of automation services directly to its products with HTTP protocol or through middle-ware software.

NetApp systems have integration with such open source projects as OpenStack Cinder for Block storage, OpenStack Manila for Shared file system, Docker persistent volumes through Trident plugin and others.

September 13,2018, Lenovo and NetApp announced its technology partnership, so Lenovo OEM Netapp products under its own name: Lenovo ThinkSystem DE, and ThinkSystem DM uses ONTAP software with Lenovo servers and supports FC-NVMe.

In November 2011, during the 2011 Syrian uprising, NetApp was named as one of several companies whose products were being used in the Syrian government crackdown.

In September 2007, NetApp started proceedings against Sun Microsystems, claiming that the ZFS File System developed by Sun infringed its patents.

On September 9,2010, NetApp announced an agreement with Oracle Corporation to dismiss the suits.

NetApp was listed amongst Silicon Valley Top 25 Corporate Philanthropists in 2013.

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NetApp was Named Brand of the Year by the Think Global Awards in 2019.