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NetApp to acquire ByCat Inc
NetApp is planning to acquire Bycast, a storage virtualization vendor, in an attempt to improve its object-based storage capabilities.
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—April 7, 2010—NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bycast Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in an all-cash
transaction. Bycast is a leading developer of object-based storage software designed to manage petabyte-scale, globally distributed repositories of images, video, and records for enterprises and service providers. Customers whose business depends on access to
critical data across geographically distributed locations rely on Bycast to better share and retain content anywhere, any time to quickly respond to their changing business requirements.
Founded more than 10 years ago, Bycast has helped more than 250 customers worldwide dramatically improve their operational efficiency and reduce the administrative burden of managing massive quantities of data across multiple
geographies. Bycast extends NetApp’s leadership position in unified storage by adding an object based storage software offering. Object-based storage is a new and emerging approach to storing and accessing data based on object names and rich metadata that describes the content in greater detail, which simplifies the task of large-scale object storage while improving the ability to quickly search and locate data objects. For example, a media company can use an object-based storage solution to provide its
graphic artists around the world with the ability to simultaneously access data and collaborate on common projects. Object-based storage interfaces greatly simplify the administration of the storage used for this purpose. With the acquisition of Bycast,
NetApp broadens its capabilities in serving key verticals such as digital media, Web 2.0, healthcare, and cloud services providers and helps customers create even greater efficiencies across data centers around the globe.
“Bycast extends our unified storage strategy and enhances our solution for shared storage infrastructure by adding new capabilities for global data access and mobility,” said Manish Goel, executive vice president, Product Operations, NetApp. “The addition
of Bycast’s products enables NetApp to offer our enterprise customers and service provider partners a complementary solution that enables them to efficiently build and manage a very large-scale global repository of data central to many IT-as-a-service
offerings.”
Portfolio and People Synergy
Bycast enables NetApp to expand into new opportunities and markets for petabytePage 2 scale, billion-object content repositories. In addition to its products, Bycast brings to NetApp valuable technology and talented employees. Bycast employees’ technical
expertise, experience, and support of their customers create powerful synergies with the NetApp culture, values, and commitment to customer success. Bycast’s Vancouver headquarters will become a technology center for NetApp and will be responsible for
existing Bycast products and future product development. As a proven market leader in the storage industry, NetApp provides Bycast immediate enterprise credibility. In addition, NetApp’s global sales organization and partnerships will expand the delivery of the Bycast portfolio and enable broader market reach to enterprise customers, service providers, international markets, and additional vertical markets to drive adoption and success of its products.
“We are excited and look forward to joining the NetApp team,” said Moe Kermani, CEO of Bycast. “We share a complementary vision and a common dedication to excellence. Together we will offer customers the best-in-class content repository solutions that
further their drive toward a unified storage infrastructure.” The acquisition is expected to close in May 2010, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
About Bycast
Bycast is the leading provider of advanced storage virtualization software for large-scale digital archives and storage clouds. For organizations whose business depends on access to vital data, Bycast protects and preserves digital assets over their lifetime. To
learn more about the company and its solutions, visit www.Bycast.com.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com
New White Paper Shows That NetApp V-Series Systems Help Customers Improve Storage Efficiency
SUNNYVALE, CA - February 11, 2010 - The Evaluator Group, Inc. has released a white paper titled "Future Proof Your Data-Center with NetApp® V-Series," which provides valuable guidelines on how to increase service levels and reduce costs by leveraging technology prudently. According to the white paper, authored by senior analyst Russ Fellows, organizations today are looking for ways to streamline their operations and do more with less, resulting in increased scrutiny and reduced budgets for IT departments. Because storage is one of the largest components of IT spend, organizations are focused on improving the efficiency of their current IT storage investments while carefully determining what new IT storage investments are needed.
Virtualization technologies offer organizations the flexibility to use their existing IT infrastructure in new or different ways, while at the same time enabling them to future proof their data centers and seamlessly integrate new infrastructure deployments. According to the Evaluator Group, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) V-Series is one of the few storage virtualization products available today that can virtualize existing heterogeneous storage pools and manage new storage pools, all while providing multiple connectivity and protocol options with consistent data protection and storage management tools. To view the white paper, visit http://media.netapp.com/documents/ar-netapp-v-series.pdf.
V-Series systems provide customers with several key building blocks that are fundamental to achieving a more flexible and efficient storage infrastructure, such as virtualization capabilities, intelligent data management, data protection, application integration, and flexibility. The V-Series product line addresses each of these components through its multiprotocol support and an array of technologies that includes NetApp SnapManager®, NetApp Snapshot™, deduplication, thin provisioning, NetApp FlexClone®, and others, all of which are inherently part of NetApp's unified storage platform. The result is a storage virtualization product that enables organizations to consolidate both old and new storage capacity behind a V-Series controller, simplifying storage management while meeting both their business and application needs.
To learn more about the NetApp V-Series product line, go to www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/v3100.
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NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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