NetApp and Its Customers Named Finalists in SNW s Best Practices Awards Program

NetApp and Its Customers Named Finalists in SNW s Best Practices Awards Program SUNNYVALE, Calif.-October 5, 2010) -NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and its customers Cartika IT Solutions and The College of St. Rose have been named finalists in SNWs Best Practices Awards Program. Both NetApp and The College of St. Rose are nominated in the Energy Efficiency, Green Computing, and Data Center category. Cartika IT Solutions is a finalist in the Virtualization and Cloud Computing category. Finalists for the awards were evaluated by a panel of judges based on case study submissions that profiled the company, its IT department, and storage challenges, as well as application deployment details, summaries of the key technology used, and measurable solution outcomes. Five finalists and one winner in each category will be recognized during an awards ceremony that will take place at SNW on October 11-14, 2010, at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas, Texas.

NetApp is a Platinum Plus sponsor of SNW Fall 2010, and NetApp executives and experts will participate in several speaking sessions at the show. At the NetApp booth, visitors can see live demonstrations and presentations in the minitheater. NetApp will also have a presence at the Fiber Channel Industry Association (FCIA) booth, the Cloud Pavilion, the Platinum Galleria, as well as the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Cloud Hands-on Labs.

Following is a list of the various sessions NetApp will present during SNW Fall 2010:

Panel: FCoE-The Great Convergence

Moderator: David Vellante, CEO, Wikibon

Speakers: Mike McNamara, senior manager, Product Marketing, NetApp

Greg McSorley, manager, Technical Business Development, Amphenol

Steve Wilson, director, Technology and Standards, Brocade

Claudio DeSanti, distinguished engineer, Advanced Architectures & Research, Cisco

Mark Jones, director, Technical Marketing, Emulex

Sean Fitzpatrick, manager, Business Development, Hewlett-Packard

Skip Jones, director, Corporate Planning and Technology, QLogic Corp.

Date: Monday, October 11

Time: 1:00-1:45 p.m. CT

Session: Best Practices for Data Optimization and Enterprise NAS

Speakers: Linda Wu, senior manager, Product Management, NetApp

Nigel Burmeister, director, Product Marketing, F5 Networks

Date: Monday, October 11

Time: 1:00-1:45 p.m. CT

Session: Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies

Speaker: Jason Iehl, architect, Data Protection Solutions, NetApp

Date: Tuesday, October 12

Time: 10:45-11:30 a.m. CT

Session: From Virtualization to Flexible IT-Transforming Data Centers to Meet Business Needs

Speaker: Phil Brotherton, vice president and general manager, Microsoft Business Unit, NetApp

Date: Tuesday, October 12

Time: 2:10-2:55 p.m. CT

Session: Writing Storage RFPs in 2010-This is Not Your Fathers Storage Array

Speakers: Larry Freeman, senior technologist, NetApp

John Webster, senior partner, The Evaluator Group

Date: Wednesday, October 13

Time: 10:45-11:30 a.m. CT

Session: pNFS, Parallel Storage for Grid, Virtualization, and Database Computing

Speaker: Alex McDonald, Office of the CTO, NetApp

Date: Wednesday, October 13

Time: 11:40 a.m.-12:25 p.m. CT

Session: The Benefits of Solid State in Enterprise Storage Systems

Speaker: David Dale, director, Industry Standards, NetApp

Date: Wednesday, October 13

Time: 2:10-2:55 p.m. CT

Session: The Journey to a Private Cloud: An Executive Interview

Moderator: John Gallant, senior vice president and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise

Speakers: Phil Brotherton, vice president and general manager, Microsoft Business Unit, NetApp

Mark Morelli, managing director, United Parcel Service (UPS)

Date: Wednesday, October 13

Time: 4:00-4:30 p.m. CT

Session: Significant Difference Between Scaling Virtual Desktops from 20% to 80% Virtualization and 0% to 20%

Speaker: Phil Brotherton, vice president and general manager, Microsoft Business Unit, NetApp

Date: Thursday, October 14

Time: 9:25-10:10 a.m. CT

NetApp Booth: 307

Registration: For complete information or to register for the event, please visit: www.snwusa.com

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