Alliance Brochure NetApp and Agile Data Infrastructure for Microsoft Private Cloud and Applications “NetApp and Microsoft are committed to helping our customers achieve greater flexibility and efficiencies. Through our alliance, we have helped thousands of enterprise customers around the world do more with less. We are excited about the opportunity we have to build on this success and together help our mutual customers design and implement truly dynamic data centers that help them dramatically reduce costs, increase availability, and be ready for the future.” Tom Georgens CEO, NetApp

NetApp and Microsoft services, software, and support and develop integrated and intelligent NetApp and Microsoft have been work- for Microsoft technologies. It also data management solutions for key ing together for more than a decade to indicates that our business is Microsoft technologies and enterprise provide innovative solutions that make reliable, experienced, and endorsed applications. NetApp is committed it easier for our customers to rapidly by Microsoft. In recognition of our to architecting a data infrastructure transform their data centers for the expertise in helping customers that is not only highly compatible future. Today, more than 25,000 enter- and partners build solutions on the with Microsoft technologies, but prise customers around the world store, Microsoft platform, NetApp was adds value such as rapid and space- protect, and manage their Microsoft® named the 2012 Microsoft Private efficient backups and cloning of VMs application data with NetApp® agile Cloud Partner of the Year. and databases, thin provisioning, data infrastructure. When you deploy nondisruptive operations, and other “Microsoft is pleased to recognize Microsoft technologies on NetApp, storage efficiency technologies NetApp as the Private Cloud Partner of ® you know that you’re getting a highly including thin replication and RAID-DP . the Year. Utilizing their comprehensive ® efficient, flexible, and reliable storage Tight integration of licensed Windows portfolio of Microsoft private cloud solution that will help your budget go protocols and complete compatibility solutions, NetApp aims to enable further and your business go faster. with Windows OS enhancements— customers to reduce provisioning time, as well as with Microsoft applications— The NetApp and Microsoft increase productivity, and improve are NetApp development priorities. alliance relationship business agility.” NetApp is a Microsoft Alliance Partner, a Solution development and testing —Mike Schutz, General Manager, Windows Microsoft Global Independent Software NetApp is a Microsoft Technology Server and Management, Microsoft Vendor, and a Microsoft Partner with Center (MTC) Global Technology Gold Certified competencies in a num- Through our alliance, we develop Partner, which means that we provide ber of Microsoft technology solution integrated virtualization and cloud and maintain NetApp storage systems areas, including: computing solutions, as well as storage and software in every MTC around and data management solutions for the world. You can use these MTC • Data Platform (Gold) Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint resources for architecture planning as • Application Development (Gold) Server®, SQL Server®, and Windows well as for hands-on testing and proof- • Collaboration and Content (Gold) Server Hyper-V™, and for integration of-concept testing of joint Microsoft • Server Platform (Silver) with Microsoft System Center. and NetApp solutions. • Hosting (Silver) • Management and Virtualization Product development Customer services and support (Silver) and technical integration NetApp and Microsoft have a reciprocal NetApp engineers and product services agreement in place to enable Gold competency signals that our developers work closely with their Microsoft and NetApp consultants to company has a significant level of counterparts at Microsoft to design jointly design and deploy Microsoft industry experience in providing applications on NetApp storage “Microsoft is committed to driving highly scalable, dynamic data center solutions with innovative partners like NetApp. Through the deep integration of server, virtualization, management, and storage technologies, Microsoft and NetApp customers can expect data center solutions that help them reduce costs, increase performance, and reach new levels of efficiency.” Bob Kelly Corporate Vice President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft Corporation

systems. We also have a cooperative and NetApp storage, enabling you to and Backup Partner and actively partici- support agreement to enable our increase data availability, provision pate in the Microsoft Exchange Solution customer support organizations to resources rapidly, and accelerate Reviewed Program. With NetApp provide the highest level of support system performance. Our cloud storage and Microsoft Exchange Server, for our joint solutions. As a result, our solutions integrate with the latest you can implement a large, low-cost global professional services team, Microsoft technologies, including Live mailbox messaging environment to help support experts, and global network of Migration, Cluster Shared Volumes, and your organization cut costs, improve industry-leading partners are available Microsoft System Center Orchestrator user productivity, and reduce risk. when and where you need them. for workflow orchestration. In addition, Microsoft SharePoint Server NetApp, Cisco, and Microsoft teamed How our alliance benefits you through the Microsoft Private Cloud Our agile data infrastructure for Through our alliance, NetApp has Fast Track partner program to offer Microsoft SharePoint Server can help developed innovative storage and Microsoft-validated solutions to help you to improve scalability and increase data management solutions for optimize service and application data availability while achieving - Microsoft technologies to help you to delivery within a private cloud. ligent management of your growing realize the full value of your Microsoft SharePoint data environment. By con- technology investments. With our joint NetApp agile data infrastructure for solidating your SharePoint Server data solutions, you can: Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V onto NetApp storage, you can save provide highly efficient storage money by improving storage efficiency • Provide an agile data infrastructure utilization, streamlined IT management, while achieving intelligent management to support your enterprise rapid data backup and recovery, of your SharePoint environment. Our applications and private cloud flexibility, and cost-effective disaster data deduplication and policy-based deployments. recovery for your virtualized server or data management capabilities can help • Dramatically increase efficiency private cloud environment. you to gain additional efficiencies. and reduce costs. • Securely protect and increase Our Microsoft Application Microsoft SQL Server the availability of your Microsoft and Database Solutions NetApp agile data infrastructure for application data assets. Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft SQL Server can help you • Simplify your IT environment with NetApp agile data infrastructure for to improve database and application intelligent management. Microsoft Exchange Server can help you availability as well as accelerate to dramatically reduce costs, increase application development and test Our Microsoft Virtualization data protection and availability, and processes. Our solution also enables and Cloud Solutions simplify management of your business- you to consolidate your storage NetApp and Microsoft private critical enterprise messaging system. infrastructure, providing greater storage cloud solutions leverage Microsoft We are a Microsoft Exchange Storage efficiency, performance, and flexibility. virtualization, Microsoft System Center, Envision Your Success and Gain new efficiencies Our Commitment to You Deploy with Confidence and reduce costs A critical link now exists between today’s We have made significant investments “Using NetApp storage efficiency storage and IT infrastructure decisions in all Microsoft Technology Centers techniques like thin provisioning and and future business performance. Our around the globe so that you have deduplication in Windows Server mutual commitment to your success ready access to NetApp solutions. Hyper-V environments, we can is at the heart of our strategic NetApp You can work side by side with the maximize infrastructure utilization and and Microsoft alliance. As partners, we technology experts at Microsoft lower costs for the end user. We use help solve your business issues with Technology Centers to get hands-on 50% to 60% less storage than we our highly flexible and efficient storage experience, or build and test a would otherwise need to support cloud and data management solutions. customized solution to help you services for our customers.” Through the deep integration of server, reduce risk, while rapidly solving your virtualization, management, and storage —Robert Bye, Executive Vice President technology and business problems. technologies, Microsoft and NetApp and General Manager, nGenX Each Microsoft Technology Center customers can expect data center offers the facilities and resources to Increase availability solutions that help them reduce costs, help you envision and then effectively “With NetApp SnapManager for Micro- increase performance, and provide an architect and evaluate your Microsoft soft Exchange, we now perform back- agile data infrastructure for Microsoft and NetApp solution before deploying ups every 2 hours throughout the day, private cloud and applications. it in your IT environment. and the time to recover an inbox or To learn more about the NetApp and single e-mail has decreased from about When you deploy Microsoft Microsoft alliance and how it can 6 hours to less than 10 minutes.” technologies on NetApp, you know benefit your organization, contact your that you’re getting a solution that has —Brian Morrow, Senior IT Analyst, NetApp sales representative or your been designed with integration in mind Sacramento County Office of Communi- NetApp reseller. and thoroughly tested for stability and cations and Information Technology reliability. Our agile data infrastructure For more information about Improve scalability and NetApp Microsoft solutions, go to for Microsoft environments simplifies simplify management IT operations and significantly reduces www..com/microsoftsolutions. “With NetApp and Windows Server infrastructure costs, while helping Use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal Hyper-V, we have created an infrastruc- partnership between NetApp and any other company. secure and protect your data assets. ture that offers high availability, seamless scalability, rapid data backup, and sim- What Our Customers Say About Microsoft Accelerate time to market plified management, all in one package. NetApp and Windows Server Hyper-V Microsoft is the worldwide leader in “Our staff can now provision complete software, services and solutions that environments in minutes, not months, are providing the basis for our success- ful operation of SharePoint 2010.” help people and businesses throughout so we can test new ideas very rapidly. the world realize their full potential. It’s given us a competitive edge” —Michael Janda, Project Manager, For more information about Microsoft —Andrew Henderson, CIO, Vienna Chamber of Labor products and services, go to www.microsoft.com. ING DIRECT Australia Do more with less Improve performance “The combined efficiencies of Microsoft About NetApp “Microsoft Exchange 2010 running on and NetApp virtualization technologies NetApp creates innovative storage NetApp storage … gives us one of the let us do more in significantly less and data management solutions that highest-performing messaging architec- capacity—for WhiteWater West, that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and tures available. With near-instantaneous means spending less to support high- accelerate business breakthroughs. communication, 7/24/365 availability, availability configurations, run more Discover our passion for helping and better archiving, our legal profes- systems, and store more data. The companies around the world go sionals can support their clients better— space we’ve saved through deduplica- further, faster at www.netapp.com. and that’s always our bottom line.” tion alone will support one year’s data growth with enough capacity left over Go further, faster ® —Peter Allen, Director of IT Operations, to integrate another of our international Nixon Peabody LLP offices into our Exchange system.”

—Dan Morris, Senior Systems Engineer, WhiteWater West Industries

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