NetApp: 20 Years of Innovation and Counting. NetApp celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2012. The Wikibon and SiliconAngle teams covered NetApp executives, customers and partners at a number of industry events; discussing NetApp's history and future outlook.
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Virtualized Clustered Storage
Wikibon CTO David Floyer takes a look at federated and clustered storage approaches including NetApp's Data ONTAP, Cluster-Mode first supported in ONTAP 8
Software-led Infrastructure: Moving to Virtualized Clustered Storage
Thought Leadership
NetApp CTO Val Bercovici discusses Hadoop market growth and maturity, and where the technical ecosystem is going in terms of Hadoop deployment, including network and storage utilization, with SiliconANGLE CEO John Furrier and Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. Last year, he said, everyone was asking “What is Hadoop?” This year they are saying, “I don't want to be the last person in.”
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NetApp VP of Global Alliances Thomas Stanley talks with SiliconANGLE CEO John Furrier and Wikibon CEO David Vellante about baseball and the issues of bringing a multi-vendor ecosystem together on a realistic budget to deliver the right information to an increasingly mobile workforce on multiple end-user devices. “The people who will win are the companies who will get there first with an economical offering that's efficient and drives value for the client.”
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NetApp Big Data marketing executive Bill Peterson discusses the issues of managing and deriving value from Big Data with a focus on electronic media with SiliconANGLE CEO John Furrier and Wikibon CEO David Vellante. He describes the infrastructure behind the Big Data analytics demonstration that NetApp and its partners put on live at NAB 2012.
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Bill Peterson on NetApp Goes Big Data
NetApp Big Data marketing executive Bill Peterson discusses NetApp's Big Data initiative with Wikibon CEO David Vellante and Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly in the Wikibon office outside Boston. They discuss the Big Data market that Wikibon pegs at $5B today and growing at 58% CAGR to and estimated $50B in 2017, what is driving that growth, and NetApp's place in that market. NetApp sees three components to Big Data: Analytics, bandwidth, and content. The value, says Peterson comes from “solutions designed to gain insight from your data.”
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Customer Events at AT&T Park
NetApp CEO Tom Georgens and Wikibon CEO David Vellante discuss NetApp's successful year based on its “big bets on virtualization”.
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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger talks briefly with Wikibon CEO David Vellante about the strength and importance of NetApp's partnership with VMware, reaffirming VMware's commitment to that partnership after its sale to NetApp competitor EMC.
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Simon Aspinall, CMO of Cloud service provider Virtustream, discusses how its customers run mission-critical legacy applications in the Cloud with Wikibon CEO David Vallente. He says that enterprise customers can run their legacy applications – Oracle, Microsoft, etc. – faster, more dependably, and 40% cheaper in the cloud with strong security and global backup/recovery.
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Fusion-IO CEO David Flynn discusses his company's new relationship with NetApp and the synergy between the performance tier and the capacity and data management tier in the IT infrastructure, with Wikibon CEO David Vellante. NetApp's pure-play focus on storage makes the synergy with Fusion-IO's very similar pure-plan focus on in-server Flash memory a natural combination, Flynn says.
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Bart Falzarano, CSO at The Walls Group, discusses how his company manages high data security requirements of its customers in a Cloud services environment with Wikibon CEO David Vellante.
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NetApp VP and GM of Data Lifecycle Solutions Tim Russell discusses how NetApp's partnerships with VMware and Fusion-IO are driving business value for its customers with Wikibon CEO David Vellante. NetApp had just announced its strategy for server-based flash working with Fusion-IO to support high-performance virtualized environments.
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Seven Corners CIO George Reed tells Wikibon CEO David Vellante, “Once again VMware and NetApp seem to be rolling out what I need next,” at NetApp Customer Event in AT&T Park at VMworld 2012. A managing general underwriter. Seven Corners provides travel insurance, assistance, and major medical to travelers around the world. It has more than 850 different programs. It depends on a highly virtualized environment with VMware and NetApp products to support 4X annual business growth.
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“We're having a blast with really taking things to the next level,” Rich Clifton, SVP of NetApp's Solutions Integration Group told Wikibon CEO David Vellante at the NetApp Customer Event in AT&T Park at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. “We're talking about how customers can go from siloed environments to building agile cloud infrastructures.”
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Oracle generates huge amounts of data that “has to go somewhere”, NetApp VP of Americas Channels Todd Palmer told SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier at the NetApp Customer Event in AT&T Park at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. Oracle customers need flexible, high-performance storage infrastructure, and NetApp's relationship with Oracle remains strong.
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Manager of Database Administration Steven Simpauco and IT Director John Tobin, both of Sharp Healthcare, discuss how Sharp uses NetApp storage for Oracle and other types of databases with Wikibon CEO David Vellante at the NetApp Customer Event in AT&T Park at Oracle OpenWorld 2012.
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NetApp's relationship with Oracle is “as good as it can be, and we're trying to make it better every day,” NetApp VP of Product and Solutions Marketing Brenden Howe tells Wikibon CEO David Vellante at the NetApp Customer Event in AT&T Park at Oracle OpenWorld 2012.
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NetApp at 20 Years
NetApp's 20 year business growth is “amazing”, NetApp Co-Founder Dave Hitz tells Wikibon CEO David Vellante. “It's a fun milestone.” In order to get venture capital, he said, they needed a business plan that would get them to $100M in revenue and allow the company to go public. That is as much as the co-founders envisioned when they launched NetApp.
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Explaining the concept of a storage appliance to VCs was a challenge, so they did not get venture capital until the first product shipped, NetApp Co-Founder Dave Hitz tells Wikibon CEO David Vellante. “We kept using analogies like toasters.... All it can do is make toast, but boy does it make good toast,” he said. So they had to build and test the first products on a shoestring. “It says something about how immature the market was for network storage at that time.”
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“We have 15 customers with more than 50 Pbytes of storage,” NetApp Co-Founder Dave Hitz tells Wikibon CEO David Vellante. “Our largest customer has almost 900 Pbytes.” The magic of OnTap is that it “can do low end, high end, primary, secondary, archival” while NetApp's competitors need to provide and support multiple products at different price points to meet their customers' storage needs.
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The WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) File System “is the luckiest piece of code I ever wrote,” NetApp Co-Founder Dave Hitz tells Wikibon CEO David Vellante. The point of WAFL was to allow NetApp appliances “to put data on any disk that makes sense.... I am surprised that nobody else in this industry has copied the architectural principles of WAFL.”
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“We are in the process of reinventing ourselves again,” NetApp Co-Founder Dave Hitz tells Wikibon CEO David Vellante. “What I see coming next after...server virtualization is ...really big shared infrastructures that could be internal or could be external.”
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NetApp's 20th Anniversary is “absolutely awesome”, Gartner Analyst Roger Cox tells Wikibon CEO David Vellante.
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Articles from Wikibon and SiliconANGLE
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- Is VDI the Killer App for Converged Infrastructure?
- NetApp Makes Big Data Push with Hadoop Box, Data Protection
- SAP Technology Adoption in the “7th Inning Stretch” says NetApp VP
- NetApp on Virtualization: Flash Strategy Looks to the Channel
- Cisco Channel Expands into Converged Infrastructure, Energy Management
- Walz Group Switches to Flexpod to Gain Agility, Meet Rigid Compliance Requirements
- NetApp Pursuing Hybrid Flash/Disk Storage Strategy for Maximum Customer Value
- NetApp, Flexpod, VMware Make Business Possible for Fast Growing Travel Insurer
- Storage Migration Costs Can Exceed Array Prices
- Software-led Infrastructure: Moving to Virtualized Clustered Storage
