Welcome To NetApp University Day

1. Welcome To NetApp University Day Bangalore 8th March 2013 NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

2. Agenda

3. Welcome & Introductions Siddhartha Nandi NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

4. Agenda • Introduction to NetApp • ATG & its mission • University Research Program • Technology Trends NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

5. NetApp Today Founded in 1992 (NB 2003) Global Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA Around 12000+ employees world-wide, 2000+ at NetApp Bangalore Presence in 130 countries Over 1,50,000 installed systems FY’12 Revenue $6.1 B S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 7 consecutive years – Fortune 100 Consecutively amongst the top ranked IT companies “Rated No 19 “Great Place To Work” in India this year. For the fourth consecutive year, we have ranked among the Top 5 Information Technology Companies #FORTUNEMagazine also ranked us #6 on their "100 Best Companies To Work For" list for 2012. 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

6. Network-centric Data-centric Cisco Lucent Nortel Storage Network Storage Network Network Storage Memory Memory Memory CPU CPU CPU What we do:Storage: The New Infrastructure Category Server-centric IBM DEC NetApp creates products and services that store, manage, protect and retain electronic data NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

7. What critical problems we solve:NetApp’s Goal : To provide Unified Architecture at Scale 7 Scale Unified Always on Efficiency Multi-tenancy Mobility NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

8. Mission statement for ATG, 2010-2015 • Keep NetApp aware of and prepared for trends that will have an impact on the storage business • explore ways to turn potential threats into opportunities. • Define and execute a portfolio of speculative or exploratory projects focused on NetApp's core systems architecture and core value-add of simplified data management • Integrate university research (academic eco-system) to build its research portfolio • Develop functioning prototypes of potential new products / features • While funded by Product Operations, ATG maintains a budget separate from product engineering and reports to the CTO’s Office NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only 8

9. Research Program • Publications • Publish in top conferences • Sponsor Conferences in India • Mentor NATJ Authors in NB • University collaboration • NetApp Faculty Fellowship (NFF) & NetApp Student Fellowship (NSF) • Research engagements with profs from top schools and their Masters and PhD students • Publication is the top goal • Broad agenda based on distributed systems, machine learning, storage technologies, virtualization, security, cloud etc • Intern program NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

10. Technology Trends • Hardware Trend • Storage Class Memory (SCM) • High-speed network protocol • Power-aware computing • Application Trend • Co-location of compute and storage • In-memory computingdata • New-age databases (NoSQL, NewSQL) • Cloud Enablement Trend • *aaS (PaaS, IaaS, …) NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

11. Technology Trends (continued) • Virtualization Trend • Software-Defined Network (SDN) • Software-Defined Infrastructure • Management Trend • Data-driven automated management • Big Data Trend Implication of Trends in System Design - Scale out of computing resources - Data management at scale NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only

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