Network Appliance Reseller Partner Program - Manual (Page 4)

1993
Industry First NAS
Appliance
1995
Initial Public Offering
1996
Industry First
Multiprotocol
Storage Appliance
1997
Industry First Network
Storage Appliance
Certified for Oracle
1998
Industry First Content
Delivery Appliance
1999
Added to NASDAQ-
100 and S&P 500
2000
Co-Founded DAFS
Collaborative
2001
First Block-Based
Network Storage
Products
2002
Industry First Nearline
Storage Appliance
2002
Industry First
Unified SAN and
NAS Appliance
network appliance progress and milestones
Superior Products Are Just
the Beginning
Along with technically superior storage
products, Network Appliance backs its
solutions with services, R&D, testing, and
partner alliances to support your efforts.
Network Appliance also provides a range
of best practices, architecture, design,
implementation, and integration services
to help you rapidly implement solutions
for your customers under the full range
of commercial best practices.
In addition, Network Appliance works
with a wide range of hardware, software,
and IT industry leaders to provide com-
prehensive solutions that enable you to
support a customer’s most aggressive
e-business initiatives with complete,
highly available, and totally efficient
business infrastructures. You gain a real
competitive advantage while your cus-
tomers get turnkey solutions that solve
their most critical business problems.
A Complete Customer
Service Offering
NetApp Professional Services works
with you and your customers to provide
a storage solution that meets their unique
requirements—assessing the customer’s
specific operational and technical needs,
designing the storage network architec-
ture, and deploying and managing
the solution.
To ensure that your customer’s employ-
ees always work at maximum efficiency,
NetApp Educational Services provides
comprehensive training and certification
programs. Available anytime and any-
where, our comprehensive NOW ™
(NetApp on the Web) site features an
array of self-service tools that give your
customers the knowledge and information
they need to manage their storage
solution. NOW provides online technical
assistance, a large knowledge base
of NetApp storage solutions, real-time
engineering support, details on the
customer’s installed base, and more.
Our Business Is Making Your
Business a Success
The Network Appliance VIP (Very
Important Partner) Program is focused
on keeping NetApp resellers successful
and on the competitive edge with industry-
leading products and solutions, excellent
discount levels, and comprehensive
sales, marketing, demo, training, and
certification programs focused on winning
and retaining customers.