NetApp Said Customers Achieve $25 Billion Annual Cost Savings

Organizations are under pressure to accelerate business results and
rely on IT to help them lower operating costs, drive innovation, and outpace
the competition.

These organizations continue to invest a significant amount of IT dollars on
day-to-day operations, hindering their ability to free up resources to
implement strategic initiatives to further business success. To cope with these
challenges, many organizations have turned to storage technologies
from NetApp, Inc. to maximize their existing investments,
reduce costs, and free up resources to invest in projects to drive business
growth.

NetApp customers are saving a combined total of more than five
exabytes of storage capacity (Data from My AutoSupport, a Web-based tool, when enabled, offers
a view into the health, performance, and storage efficiency of any NetApp
storage system.) through the use of NetApp‘s
technologies.

With these technologies, customers save on average $25 billion in
storage costs (Dollar savings based on NetApp MyAutoSupport data and annual
cost per TB based on the Gartner report: IT Key Metrics Data 2012: Key
Infrastructure Measures: Storage Analysis: Current Year, Jamie K. Guevara,
Linda Hall, and Eric Stegman, December 15, 2011 report #G00226857). According to Gartner, Inc.,
organizations invest 63% of their IT budgets on projects to run their business,
21% to grow their business and only 16% to transform their business (IT Metrics: IT Spending and Staffing Report, 2012, by Kurt
Potter, Michael Smith, Jim McGittigan, Jamie K. Guevara, Linda Hall, Eric
Stegman, January 16, 2012).

Customers rely on NetApp’s game changing technologies to overcome the
challenges of managing data growth and maximize existing storage
investments. The combined strengths of NetApp’s nine integrated technologies
help customers lower costs, do more with less, and improve their return on
investment.

The following customers  are maximizing NetApp storage
technologies to free up resources for innovation as they implement cloud
computing models, VDI, and strategic business
applications to provide higher service levels to their organizations:

The Iowa Workforce
Development (IWD) decreased costs and continued to support the communities
they serve to run public-facing virtual desktops across the state from a
centralized storage platform. This approach to delivering
workforce services has enabled the IWD to provide services to a greater number
of communities even though budget cuts forced the elimination of the majority
of its physical offices.

With NetApp storage infrastructure, the
agency is now able to deliver more services to Iowa state residents and has
seen the rate of services the agency provides increase by an average of 40% per
month. NetApp storage technologies such as deduplication and thin provisioning
have helped reduced storage requirements by nearly 50%.

Tucson Electric Power company
(TEP) managed growing data volumes resulting from the expansion of its
geographical information system with more high-resolution photographs, which
required large amounts of storage space. These GIS applications and
high-resolution images are used throughout the utility enterprise for
inspections, lightning-strike assessment, field force management, outage
visualization, and emergency management. In addition, storage demands were
being driven by roughly 60 new or upgrade-application projects each year.

Over the last six years, TEP’s has saved the organization
approximately $7.3 million in hardware and labor costs due to
storage from NetApp. These savings are now invested into new application projects such as a renewable energy program and
meter data management.

ExamWorks Group, Inc.
addressed new requirements stemming from accelerated business growth and
achieve greater efficiencies through more streamlined, centralized storage
management, and server and desktop virtualization strategies.

ExamWorks achieved $2 million in IT opex cost avoidance and gained a
centralized, efficient and flexible IT infrastructure that accommodates growth. It has reduced storage and IT staffing costs with NetApp
virtualization and efficiency technologies. The company has decreased storage
requirements by 300% with NetApp deduplication on virtual desktop images.

A global hauling and logistics provider, Scheffknecht
Transporte GmbH renewed the IT infrastructure for three sites and 50 office
workplaces focusing on accelerated data access, stability, and cost saving.
NetApp provided unified storage as a central shared data platform for the
virtualized environment, business and industry solutions.

Scheffknecht was able to reduce expenditure for operations, decrease
administration time by more than 80%, and save several thousand Euros on
maintenance. The new infrastructure released resources
for optimizing business processes such as electronic accounting or telematics
for its truck fleet. Instead of wasting time and money rectifying IT problems,
Scheffknecht is now able to generate uninterrupted sales.

"Today, organizations
spend a substantial amount of their budget just keeping systems running,"
said Chris Cummings, VP, Products and Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "Efficiency in IT is needed now more than
ever as customers seek new approaches to manage growing data volumes, reduce
costs and improve business responsiveness. Our success in helping customers
achieve significant savings with the NetApp portfolio of storage efficiency
technologies demonstrates our commitment to deliver powerful innovations that
help our customers succeed."