NetApp Annual Innovation Awards Recognize Enterprise-Customer Excellence in Transformative IT
June 03 2014 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
NetApp Annual Innovation Awards Recognize Enterprise-Customer
Excellence in Transformative IT
NetApp Celebrates Customers Transforming Their IT Operations and
Achieving Breakthrough Business Success With Its Data Management
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SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 3, 2014) - NetApp (NASDAQ:
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Rob Salmon, President and Head of Go-to-Market Operations "Our
visionary enterprise customers are successfully navigating through
the most complex period in IT with the help of NetApp and our
partners. We are proud to recognize their inspiring achievements
that have resulted in transformative business changes in their
organizations."
Enterprise IT organizations are transforming operations to
deliver more value to the businesses they underpin. This
transformation is creating unprecedented amounts of complexity in
enterprises as they evaluate technologies such as cloud, social,
and big data analytics to achieve the success their businesses
demand.
To manage this complexity, enterprises turn to NetApp and other
industry leaders to devise approaches, implement technologies, and
provide service offerings that accommodate the immediate needs of
business today and its needs in the future.
With its annual innovation awards, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP)
recognizes winning enterprises that teamed with NetApp and its
extended ecosystem of software, systems, and service partners to
flourish in this time of complexity and to achieve success on their
terms.
NetApp will honor the winners of the Innovation Awards program
tonight during a distinguished awards ceremony at The Computer
History Museum in Mountain View, California.
NetApp thanks everyone who submitted achievements to the 2014
Innovation Awards program. Over 100 high-quality global nominations
from more than two-dozen countries were submitted. Submissions were
made by a wide range of industries and organizations, including
enterprise service providers, healthcare, financial services,
government, media and entertainment, energy, and education. Award
category information can be seen on the Innovation Awards
website.
2014 NetApp Innovation Award Winners
- Go Beyond -- Symantec
- Innovator of the Year
- Americas -- ION Geophysical Corporation
- Asia Pacific -- ING Vysya Bank Limited
- Europe Middle East and Africa -- Orange Business
Services
- U.S. Public Sector -- State of California Natural
Resources Agency
- Pioneer -- Boerse Stuttgart AG
- Visionary Leadership -- Qualcomm Incorporated
Supporting Quotes
- Samir Gaertner, Director, System Technology, Boerse Stuttgart
AG "As the leading exchange for securities derivatives in Europe
and for corporate bonds in Germany, Boerse Stuttgart is Europe's
leading exchange for private investors. We need to execute our
customers' orders with the utmost speed and cost efficiency. With a
shared infrastructure based on the NetApp clustered Data ONTAP
operating system and NetApp and Cisco's converged infrastructure,
FlexPod, we now handle twice as many business transactions and 2.3
billion quote updates a day. Our data center costs have been
reduced by 65%, which has enabled us to grow and invest in other
areas of the business."
- Sandeep Kaul, Head of IT Service Delivery, ING Vysya Bank
Limited "ING Vysya Bank is a growing premier private sector bank
with over two million customers. We had to scale up to meet growing
business demand and our heterogeneous storage solutions were aging,
so we turned to NetApp. NetApp OnCommand and enterprise FAS storage
systems allowed us to consolidate over 90% of our business-critical
banking applications and reduce time to market by 50%. Working with
NetApp we have been able to focus on IT to meet business demands
and improve IT reliability and performance while saving
capital."
- Bill Menger, Director of High-Performance Computing, ION
Geophysical Corporation "At ION, our goal is to help oil and gas
companies better understand the earth's subsurface through
innovative seismic data processing and imaging solutions as well as
seismic data library coverage in key geologic basins around the
world. As part of our growth strategy and to better support client
demand within, our team needed to move an entire
high-performance-computing environment into a new facility. Using
NetApp's operating system -- clustered Data ONTAP -- and FAS
storage systems, we were able to transition our data to the new
data center without disruption to operations."
- Axel Haentjens, Vice President, Cloud Computing, Orange
Business Services "Orange Business Services, a global IT and
communications services provider, understood early on how the power
of cloud computing could transform our customers' business
operations. Putting cloud at the core of our strategy, we developed
a full range of IT infrastructure solutions, with storage being a
key part. We wanted a long-term and experienced partner, and we
chose to put NetApp as a centerpiece of our cloud offerings, as
they embraced our aggressive business model and allowed us to scale
quickly. The technology and partnership from NetApp has been key to
our success in the cloud."
- Norm Fjeldheim, Senior Vice President and CIO, Qualcomm
Incorporated "Our enterprise IT organization is continuously
challenged to provide the infrastructure needed to meet the
complexity of the changing IT environment and give us a competitive
advantage in the marketplace. We turned to our extended team and
trusted partners like NetApp to devise approaches and implement
technologies that will meet our needs now and in the future.
NetApp's expertise and collaborative approach in helping us achieve
our desired outcomes has already enabled us to produce
higher-quality products ahead of schedule."
- Tim Garza, Director of IT, State of California Natural
Resources Agency "We manage California's natural resources and
depend on real-time data and systems to make informed decisions in
the management of critical resources and respond quickly to natural
disasters. As state agencies grappled with resources, California
State CIO Carlos Ramos proposed a visionary strategy to meet
growing demand with fewer resources through a shared IT service
model. Our agency embraced this vision and transformed to a
shared-services cloud-computing model built on industry
technologies that utilize clustered Data ONTAP. This enabled us to
consolidate 28 siloed data centers and decrease overall capital and
operational expenditures by 45% and 35%, respectively. Now we are
able to operate at the speed of business without technology being a
constraint."
- Sheila Jordon, Senior Vice President and CIO, Symantec "The
efficiency of our customer global support organization is critical
to the success of our business and of our customers. We worked
closely with NetApp and their partners to create an on-demand
software-defined data center based on a NetApp FAS shared storage
infrastructure, clustered Data ONTAP, and OnCommand technologies.
Since implementation, we reduced the time to build data center
environments from days to minutes and experienced significant
improvements in overall operational efficiency, performance, and
scalability."
2014 NetApp Innovation Award Judges The NetApp Innovation Awards
program relies on a prestigious third-party panel of international
judges for the four main categories. These judges determine the
award winners based on their outside expertise and critical,
unbiased assessment of real-world deployments at customer
sites.
- William Barnett: Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business
Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations at the Graduate School of
Business, Stanford University
- James Henderson: Professor of Strategy and Head of Programs and
Innovation, IMD
- Rich Karlgaard: Publisher of Forbes, author of The
Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success,
panelist on Forbes on Fox, and columnist for
Innovation Rules
- John McArthur: President of Walden Technology Partners and
strategy consultant to IT executives
Additional Resources
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- View Past Award Winners
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- Connect with NetApp on LinkedIn
About NetApp NetApp creates innovative storage and data
management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and
accelerate business breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our
core values and consistently being recognized as a great place to
work around the world are fundamental to our long-term growth and
success, as well as the success of our pathway partners and
customers. Discover our passion for helping companies around the
world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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