Midrange Storage Platforms
Supporting Quotes Sheet
NetApp Alliance Technology Partners
Satinder Sethi, Vice President, Data Center Solutions Engineering and UCS Product Management, Cisco
“Our jointly-developed data center infrastructure solutions like FlexPod provide cost-effective scalable, flexible, and manageable technologies that reduce IT complexity and increase operational efficiency. Customers will benefit significantly from the performance gains in today's announcement of the NetApp midrange platforms. Together with our computing and networking technologies, these new products will accelerate the transition we see many companies making towards an agile data infrastructure."
Ian Carlson, Director, Windows Server Marketing, Microsoft Corporation
"Windows Server 2012 aligns with Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision and introduces groundbreaking new capabilities in areas such as low-cost storage, virtualization, and management for the cloud era. NetApp’s new products such as FAS3220 and FAS3250 can build on Microsoft’s Cloud OS to help customers respond to changing business needs.”
Gus Robertson, Vice President, Global Business Development, Red Hat
“Red Hat and NetApp are committed to delivering IT departments excellent platform choices for solutions of all sizes. Today’s announcement is great news for enterprises as they migrate mission-critical applications away from expensive, proprietary UNIX/RISC platforms to modern, open architectures. The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the industry’s leading open source virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the new NetApp midrange systems delivers leading performance and scalability with compelling economics.”
Gary Greene, Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware
“VMware and NetApp share a vision to deliver business results that enable our customers to be more responsive to new opportunities, and we continue to work with our joint channel partners to deliver solutions that are simple, flexible and agile. The software-defined datacenter, delivered by the VMware vCloud® Suite, enables an always-on environment for business-critical applications. NetApp clustered storage, combined with the VMware vCloud Suite creates a robust solution that can deliver always-on performance, efficiency, and scalability.”
NetApp Distributors and Resellers
Mark Teter, CTO, Advanced Systems Group
“Our customers desperately need proven solutions that give them higher storage efficiencies and business agility within their IT infrastructure. The FAS3200 is exactly what they had in mind. The new product line helps us solve our customers’ problems with being able to quickly deploy new applications while providing a higher performance and reliable storage platform. The new FAS3200 capabilities allow us to serve more customers with an enterprise class solution to address not only their current requirements, but their future demands from their business organization.”
Paul Sweeney, Managing Director, ANS Group
“NetApp solutions have always helped our customers leverage advanced IT solutions to achieve breakthrough gains in business performance. Our customers demand proven solutions that support their aggressive growth goals, yield efficiencies in their IT organization, and increase business agility. The FAS3200 fits perfectly into our ‘i3in the Cloud’ offering and has proven highly successful in enabling us to grow our business and help our customers deploy new IT resources. It’s incredibly positive and beneficial to both ANS and our customers to see our partners like NetApp being proactive and constantly keeping ahead of leading edge technologies.”
Youngoh Lee, President, Arira
“Together with NetApp, we share a vision for delivering agility in IT to our customers, allowing them to be more responsive to change. The new NetApp FAS3200 systems will help our customers find the balance of price/performance and features that best fit future needs and deliver the high availability needed to accelerate business. An agile data infrastructure enables us to present an advanced infrastructure foundation to our customers and prospects to drive more agility and efficiency into their organizations to meet the needs of data driven business today.”
Brian Mitchell, NetApp Technical Consultant, Avnet
"Our partners demand proven solutions that accelerate growth, respond to unpredictable changes, and improve competitive advantage. The new FAS3200 provides simplicity and flexibility, while also delivering a clustered storage foundation that scales seamlessly from 2 to 24 nodes."
Larry Gentry, President, Custom Storage
"Custom Storage helps our customers leverage advanced IT solutions to achieve breakthrough gains in business performance. Our customers demand proven solutions that support their aggressive growth goals, yield efficiencies in their IT organization and increase business agility. The FAS3200 has proven highly successful in enabling us to grow our business and help our customers deploy new IT resources and accelerate mission critical deployments. The new FAS3200 capabilities will allow us to capitalize on more opportunities and help our customers meet current and future requirements.”
Suzanne Gallagher, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Datalink
“Datalink helps transform data centers to be in lockstep with business strategies and day-to-day demands. Clients value our deep expertise and ability to design, deploy, and support unified infrastructures featuring innovations from industry leaders, like NetApp. Our mid- and large-sized clients gain fast, agile, and scalable infrastructures that optimize day-to-day operations and advance their business.”
John Reckner, National Practice Manager, ePlus Technology
“As a NetApp Star Partner and FlexPod Premium Partner, ePlus has demonstrated experience enabling customers to lower cost and complexity, improve storage utilization, and quickly respond to changes in their business environment. We look forward to continuing to help customers boost IT efficiency and flexibility by leveraging innovative storage and data management solutions from NetApp, including the FAS3200 platforms.”
Rob Cotter, CTO, Insight Integrated Systems
“Insight Integrated Systems delivers reliable and efficient cloud computing infrastructure on which our customers can build reliable service offerings such as IaaS and PaaS. Our customers demand proven, dynamically scalable and highly available solutions that enable them to deliver more value to the business. The new FAS3200 capabilities allow us to address more opportunities and help our customers meet the increasing demands generated by their end-users.”
John Woodall, VP Engineering, Integrated Archive Systems
“NetApp has delivered another winning product with the FA3200 offerings.Speed, ease of deployment, and agility in the data center are imperatives for customers building cloud architectures.The NetApp FAS3200 series platform has proven to be a very successful and strategic product that has enabled our customers to consolidate workloads and scale as their business needs accelerate. Together with improved performance, better scalability, and added improvements in flash technology, the FAS3200 builds on a great foundation that extends NetApp’s value further into our customers’ data centers.”
Jason Gress, President, InterVision Systems Technologies, Inc.
“InterVision Systems’ primary focus is helping our customers leverage advanced IT solutions to achieve business needs through technology. Our customers demand proven solutions that support their aggressive growth goals, yield efficiencies in their IT organization and increase business agility. The FAS3200 has proven highly successful, enabling us to grow our business and help our customers deploy new IT resources and accelerate mission critical deployments. The new FAS3200 capabilities allow us to capitalize on more opportunities and help our customers meet current and future requirements.”
Kent MacDonald, Vice President of Business Development, Long View
“Growing businesses are always looking for an edge and this new midrange storage solution from NetApp, the FAS3200 series, is pretty sharp and sophisticated. These improved systems can help Long View’s customers optimize their IT environments, make the best use of their resources, and handle the rapidly changing needs of their business.”
John Pfaff, President, Trace3
“Trace3 is a committed NetApp partner and we are proud to be recognized as one of only three NetApp Star Elite partners in the entire US. Our teams continue to collaborate to architect and deliver solutions that meet the highest requirements of our mutual customers. From sales to engineering, we embrace the innovation and value NetApp delivers with the FAS3200 series and look forward to continued success together.”
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