NetApp to Attend VMworld 2007 as a Platinum Sponsor

Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP):
What: Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) today announced
that it will be a Platinum Sponsor of VMworld, hosted
by VMware September 11-13 at Moscone Center in San
Francisco. NetApp is proud to present four sessions
during VMworld, the largest virtualization industry
event, which is expected to draw over 10,000 IT
professionals ranging from technology experts, business
executives, and VMware employees and strategic IT
leaders to CIOs, reporters, and analysts.

At the NetApp booth, attendees will have the
opportunity to discuss best practices with NetApp
executives and subject matter experts. NetApp will also
present a series of demonstrations on virtual storage,
data protection, desktop virtualization, and VMware on
NFS. In addition, attendees will be able to see NetApp
hardware in action in seven of the conference's hands-
on labs.

A NetApp customer, Mellano & Company, a family owned
and operated flower grower, will participate in a
customer panel to share their experience as a NetApp(R)
StoreVault(TM) customer during a Small and Medium
Business session.

Session: "Simply Addressing the Disaster Recovery Needs of
Virtual Infrastructures." (BC33) There are many
options for implementing disaster recovery with VMware
Infrastructure 3, ranging from simple to complex.
This session will focus on technologies that provide
customers with flexible and low-cost solutions to the
problem of replicating Virtual Machines. The presenters
will examine some common customer deployments of NetApp
SnapMirror(R) with VMware Infrastructure 3, including
using synchronous or asynchronous replication over IP
or Fibre Channel connections and the flexibility of
mixing Fibre Channel and SATA disks in a replicated
environment.

Presenters: Vaughn Stewart, NetApp Consulting Systems Engineer,
Infrastructure Virtualization
Stephen Manley, NetApp Technical Director,
Data Protection Group

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 12, 10-11 a.m.

Session: "Optimizing Storage for Virtual Desktops." (DV16)
Virtual Desktop solutions can drive storage
requirements, often pushing costs that reduce ROI.
NetApp presenters will take a look at the
implementation of storage options and how they can
drive down costs and management of a virtual desktop
solution. This session will investigate solutions using
A-SIS (advanced single instance storage) deduplication
and FlexClone(R) volumes to minimize storage
requirements and ease patch management.

Presenters: Vaughn Stewart, NetApp Consulting Systems Engineer,
Infrastructure Virtualization
Tommy Walker, VMware Engineer

Date/Time: Wednesday September 12, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Session: "Building Virtual Infrastructures with Network-Attached
Storage (NAS)." (IP43) Implementing VMware
Infrastructure 3 with NAS delivers high performance
along with unique benefits not found with traditional
block arrays. Customers looking for robust storage
solutions that provide the highest levels of storage
utilization and significantly easier storage management
will benefit from considering a NAS solution. In this
presentation, NetApp will demonstrate the benefits of
implementing VMware Infrastructure 3 with NAS,
including storage provisioning, VM deployment, and
instantaneous backup and recovery. In addition, a
NetApp customer will share the details and benefits of
their VMware Infrastructure 3 on NAS deployment.

Presenters: Peter Learmonth, NetApp Consulting Systems Engineer
Kim Weller, NetApp SAN Consulting Systems Engineer
Bud James, BEA Systems Senior Manager, Data Center
Operations and Collaboration Team

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 12, 2-3 p.m.

Session: "Automated Disaster Recovery with VMware and NetApp."
In this session, NetApp will provide an overview of how
VMware and NetApp are jointly developing a tool that
will enable automated failover between NetApp mirrors.
As virtual machines are deployed on Network
Appliance(TM) primary disk and ultimately replicated to
NetApp secondary disk, the need for seamless, automated
discovery and failover of those Virtual Machines for
disaster recovery is apparent. Attendees will be
treated to a sneak preview of this failover utility.

Presenters: Darrin Chapman, NetApp Senior Manager, Data Protection
and Retention Product Engineering

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 12, 2-3 p.m.

Event: VMworld 2007
September 11-13
Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA

Registration: For additional event information or to attend the
conference, visit http://www.vmware.com/vmworld/.

NetApp Booth: Booth # 701

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