NetApp - Exposed

FY09 – It’s not how you start

It’s how you finish of course!  NetApp is expected to announce our Q4 earnings after the NASDAQ market closes tomorrow May 20th, closing out our fiscal year 2009.

With the worst of the recession occurring smack dab in the middle of our FY09, this has been both a challenging and educational year for us.  As a result, during FY10 the NetApp Office of the CTO predicts customer purchasing trends will begin to shift en masse from products to Cloud Services, where Storage Efficiency will determine Cloud Storage Providers’ ultimate success or failure!

Among other accomplishments, NetApp executives will update the financial analysts on our dedupe market leadership and what we expect during the next 11 months throughout our FY10.

This promises to be a very special call, so I highly recommend all those interested in NetApp for whatever purpose - listen in!

Plasma Clouds – To Boldly Go

NetApp recently co-sponsored with Cisco a bunch of premiers for the most successful Star Trek movie ever.  As you might expect from my previous blogs on this topic, NetApp technology was once again pivotal in bringing this movie to market.  ILM is not a tired storage marketing cliché to NetApp – it’s actually a premier customer! :)

There’s an interesting link emerging between the computing and storage infrastructures of leading post-production / animation houses - and Cloud Providers.