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VMworld 2009, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—September 1, 2009— NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced its $1 Million Virtualization Challenge contest to award NetApp® storage hardware, software, and services to a qualifying new customer to reduce the company’s storage usage by 50% in a VMware® environment.

Launched in September 2008, the NetApp Virtualization Guarantee Program offers customers a guarantee* that they will use 50% less storage in their virtual environments with NetApp compared to traditional storage. NetApp is now taking the guarantee a step further by offering up to $1 million of NetApp technology and services to a new NetApp customer to further prove NetApp’s efficiency in VMware environments. As part of the challenge, an independent third party will benchmark and measure the impact of NetApp’s storage.

It’s always great to see these kind of announcements, not only do they NetApp’s guarantee, but it also illustrates how with the right set of tools, technology and best practice end users might reduce the amount of storage they need, which not only reduces their storage requirements, but the power required for that storage.

It’s not just technical solutions or products that can be used to reduce your storage, simple activities like having a spring clean of your data, setting up archiving processes, seeing that your storage is being utilized effectively, do we need to keep all our data online?  Is our problem with the backup/recovery procedures? We need to identify the challenges, establish best practices within our enterprise, be more efficient with our consumption and data allocation – without quotas, without restriction everything gets kept online, nothing gets deleted, not only is this poor use of the storage, it’s ineffective to the end user, too much data which you cannot realistically sort through/view.

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