NetApp leads in both the high-end and midrange parts of the market, with 88.9% market share and 70.5% market share by revenue respectively5. Additionally, NetApp revenue for NAS/Unified Storage Gateways grew faster than the market from 20046.

“With NetApp® unified storage, customers can consolidate, standardize, and centrally manage both SAN and NAS storage to simplify complex IT environments and dramatically reduce total cost of ownership,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Partners at Network Appliance. “By offering storage solutions that maximize our customers’ investments and simultaneously support Fibre Channel SAN, IP SAN (iSCSI), and network-attached storage, NetApp can continue to address changing business needs as storage technologies evolve.”

About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today’s data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product and partner firsts that simplify data management. Information about Network Appliance™ solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.

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1Gartner Dataquest, "Market Share: NAS/Unified Storage, Worldwide, 2000-2005," Pushan Rinnen, 2005.
2Table 1-1, Total NAS/Unified Storage Revenue by Configuration
3Table 1-8, Top 10 NAS/Unified Storage Vendors by Revenue
4Table 1-8, Top 10 NAS/Unified Storage Vendors by Revenue
5Table 3-4, Top Five Midrange Stand-Alone NAS/Unified Storage Vendors by Revenue and Table 4-4, Top Five High-End NAS/Unified Storage Vendors by Revenue
6Table 5-3, Top Five NAS/Unified Storage Gateway Vendors by Revenue

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