Bangkok--5 Sep--Oasis Media
Year-on-year factory revenue growth in the open networked storage was 112.3 percent in 2011Q1 and acquired over 60 new customers in fiscal year 2011.
NetApp lays common foundation for customers’ private, public, and hybrid cloudsNetApp, a leading provider of storage and data management solutions, announced it gained share in the Open Networked Storage market with a 112.3 percent year-on-year growth in Q1 CY2011. According to the IDC Asia/Pacific Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, Q1 2011, NetApp Thailand’s factory revenue represented a market share of 7.7 percent.
Demonstrating leadership in helping customers accelerate and simplify their transition to private, public and hybrid cloud models, NetApp is organizing the first cloud service provider event today, gathering more than 20 service providers and partners in Thailand. The NetApp Cloud Service Provider Forum will share the latest solutions and strategies to help enterprises and service providers in their journey into a shared infrastructure and cloud environment.
NetApp’s strategy to help customers build Future-Ready IT has proven a hit among customers in Thailand, who see the value in adopting a flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructure in their data center transformation. In fiscal year 2011, NetApp acquired over 60 new customers from in various key industries; i.e. manufacturing, energy, financial services and telecommunication; that deployed NetApp technology to lay the right foundation for their journey into a virtualized shared infrastructure and the cloud.
“NetApp aims to help customers transit into the future dynamic data centre that embraces a virtualized shared infrastructure, an important foundation for cloud computing. NetApp wants to help customers lay the right foundation so that companies can realize the full efficiency and agility benefits from their shared infrastructure and unified storage of NetApp. I am pleased that customers in Thailand trust NetApp to help them in their journey to a future-ready IT,” said Weera Areeratanasak, Country Manager, Thailand.
Choosing the right storage platform for the shared infrastructure is one of the most critical and strategic decisions that IT leaders need to make. However, NetApp believes that the best approach to build a successful cloud is to look to the best-of-breed solutions and cloud integrators to architect the right cloud business strategy in the organizations’ cloud revolution.
Continuous Innovation
NetApp has continuously introduced innovations to cater to the demands of enterprises. Earlier this year, NetApp acquired Engenio, the external storage division of LSI Corporation.*(1) and purchased Akorri Networks Inc.,*(2), to further extend its offerings to customers. Recently, NetApp also introduced new technologies within NetApp OnCommand? management software that control, automate and analyze the shared storage infrastructure for greater optimization and service efficiency in the private, public or hybrid cloud environments.
In addition, NetApp collaborates with technology leaders to deliver the best-of-breed technologies to customers. For example, NetApp recently joined forces with Cisco to provide FlexPod? Data Center solutions -- a Cisco Validated Design with NetApp -- that combines networking, computing and storage in a shared infrastructure and supports VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and SAP applications in the cloud. This innovative architecture helps enhance storage management, improve ROI and boost competitiveness.
NetApp also strengthened its Alliance Technology Partner Program to include cloud management leaders, enabling integration between industry-leading cloud management solutions and NetApp OnCommand to provide end-to-end management of the full stack cloud architecture.