NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) is an intelligent data infrastructure company that offers data-centric software and networking hardware that enable enterprises to manage and use their data. The computer and technology sector leader provides on-premise and hybrid cloud solutions with all-flash storage, networking gear, observability, cyber resilience, and cybersecurity.
The Evolution of NetApp: From Data Silos to Intelligent Architecture
NetApp is considered a legacy company, formerly known as Network Appliances, that has been a pioneer and disruptor riding secular technology trends since 1992. They were the first vendor to unify files and block workloads and structured and unstructured data to reduce silos. NetApp embarked on the hybrid cloud to eliminate silos and provide unified control access across any environment by creating its first data fabric strategy.
NetApp entered the hybrid cloud era as the only vendor natively integrated into all major clouds like AWS from Amazon Inc., Azure from Microsoft Co., and Google Cloud from Alphabet Inc. NetApp has evolved towards an intelligent data infrastructure era, offering silo-free infrastructure that harnesses artificial intelligence (AI) and observability to enable the most optimal data management everywhere.
NetApp's Competitive Advantages
Being an established pioneer in data infrastructure, NetApp has developed various competitive advantages:
Unified Data Management: NetApp offers ONTAP, its proprietary operating system, to manage data across all environments silo-free. A single source of truth to provide a "single pane of glass view" of operations from edge to core to ...
