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Network Appliance, Inc.
Public (NASDAQ: NTAP)
Founded1992
HeadquartersSunnyvale, California, USA
Key peopleDan Warmenhoven, CEO
Tom Mendoza, President
Steve Gomo, CFO
David Hitz, Executive Vice President (EVP) & Founder
Steve Kleiman, Chief Scientist
James Lau, EVP, Founder, and Chief Strategy Officer
Tom Georgens, EVP Product Operations
IndustryData storage devices
ProductsFAS2000, FAS3000, FAS6000, NearStore®, NearStore VTL, Decru DataFort, Information Server, V-Series, StoreVault
Revenue$2.8 billion USD (FY 2007)
Employees6600+
Websitewww.netapp.com
Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), commonly known as NetApp, is a network storage and data management company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is a member of the NASDAQ-100 and ranks on the Fortune 1000.

Network Appliance is credited with the widespread adoption of Network Attached Storage or "NAS" and pioneered Unified Storage. Now Network Appliance storage products support a variety of storage protocols such as iSCSI SAN, Fibre Channel SAN, CIFS and NFS. The key technologies behind most of Network Appliance's product line are the Data ONTAP storage operating system and WAFL file system.

Competition

NetApp competes in the Data Storage Devices industry[1]. NetApp ranks third in market capitalization in its industry, behind EMC and Seagate Technology, and ahead of Western Digital, Brocade, Data Domain, Imation, Quantum, and Isilon [2]. In total revenue, NetApp ranks fourth behind EMC, Seagate, Western Digital, and ahead of Imation, Brocade, Xyratex, and Hutchinson Technology [3]. Note that these lists of competitors do not include companies with significant storage businesses, such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems, Dell, and Sun Microsystems.

History

Network Appliance was founded in 1992 by David Hitz, James Lau, and Michael Malcolm [4] [5]. At the time, its major competitor was Auspex. It had its initial public offering in 1995. Network Appliance thrived in the internet bubble years of the mid 1990s to 2001, during which the company grew to $1 billion in annual revenue. After the bubble burst, Network Appliance's revenues quickly declined to $800 million in its fiscal year 2002. Since then, the company's revenues have steadily climbed.

Network Appliance also has a long history of making "Best Places to Work" lists. In 2007 the company ranked 6th on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. This is the fifth consecutive year NetApp has earned a spot on the list, placing in the top 50 each time. NetApp also earned top honors in the "Best Companies to Work for in Research Triangle Park" competition in 2006. Other previous distinctions include making ComputerWorld's "Top 100 Places to Work in IT 2005", "Best Places to Work" in the Greater Bay Area in 2006 by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, and the 8th spot on the 2006 list of "Best Workplaces in Germany" by Capital Magazine.

Software

The operating system used by Network Appliance's filers is Data ONTAP. The distinguishing feature in Data ONTAP is its WAFL file system, and WAFL's data protection capabilities, including snapshots, file system mirroring, and RAID-DP.

NetCache and its uses

The NetCache software formerly produced by Network Appliance is used in Tunisia to censor Internet access. Technically, censorship in Tunisia uses a transparent proxy that processes every HTTP request sent out and filters out sites based on hostnames. Empirical evidence shows that NetApp hardware was used to implement the controls. [6]

Major Acquisitions

  • 1997 - Internet Middleware (IMC). IMC's web proxy caching software became the NetCache product line (which was resold in 2006).
  • 2004 - Spinnaker Networks, Inc. The technology Spinnaker brought to NetApp® was integrated into Data ONTAP GX and first released in 2006.
  • 2005 - Alacritus The technology Alacritus brought to NetApp® was integrated into the NetApp NearStore VTL product line
  • 2005 - Decru. Decru continues to operate as a separate business for data encryption.
  • 2006 - Topio. Software that helps replicate, recover, and protect data over any distance regardless of the underlying server or storage infrastructure. This technology became known as ReplicatorX.

Major Divestitures

Divisions

According to NetApp's management biographies , NetApp is divided into three major businesses:
  • Networked Storage and Manageability
  • Data Protection and Retention Solutions
  • Emerging Products Groups, includes:
  • Security
  • Virtual Tape
  • Heterogeneous Replication
  • StoreVault

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Tom Mendoza joined Network Appliance, Inc. in 1994 and has served as its President since 2000. Mr. Mendoza has more than 31 years as a high technology executive and has served in an advisory capacity on the board of directors of Netscreen (acquired by Juniper), Rhapsody (acquired by
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Seagate Technology

Public (NYSE:  STX )
Founded 1979
Headquarters Scotts Valley, CA, USA

Key people Alan Shugart, Founder
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Western Digital

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Founded April 23, 1970
Headquarters Lake Forest, California, United States

Key people Thomas E. Pardun (Chairman)
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