SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 06, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, named its SolidFire SF-Series 19210 and E2800 as finalists in the 2016
Product of the Year Awards in the Enterprise Storage and Midrange Storage categories. Recognized products represent best-in-breed
technological innovation as judged by CRN editors and the solution provider community at large.
The NetApp SolidFire SF-Series 19210 decreases the cost of all-flash arrays by offering the highest density
and lowest cost per GB/IOPS, making it well-suited for heavily virtualized and cloud infrastructures. The SF-Series 19210 delivers
the full NetApp SolidFire feature set, including guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS), a true scale-out architecture, in-line data
reduction, complete system automation and integration with VMware and OpenStack. The NetApp E2800 is an entry-level all-flash array designed for midsize businesses and remote offices that
need a simple and cost-effective solution to support data analytics applications. Customers can reduce costs by roughly 35 percent
and boost performance 300,00 IOPS giving them affordable storage to move data among hot, warm, cold and frozen storage tiers.
In 2016, for the first time, the top five finalists in 17 different Products of the Year technology categories were selected by
CRN editors, while solution providers themselves rated those finalists to determine the winner. The Channel Company surveyed
solution provider partners working with each of the finalists, asking them to rate the products on Technology, Revenue and Profit,
and Customer Demand. The survey garnered over 5,000 responses.
Solution providers considered a number of factors in determining their ratings, including product quality and reliability,
technical innovation, ease of integration, potential to drive revenue, and fulfillment of market and customer demands.
“CRN’s Products of the Year certainly bring laudable innovations to market, but they represent much more than technical prowess
alone," said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company. “These valuable products stand at the intersection of technological
excellence, outstanding profit potential and high customer demand. Solution providers will find that our 2016 Products of the Year
list serves as a valuable, one-of-a-kind guide to the all-around best new products in today’s IT marketplace.”
“The next generation data center requires a different technological approach. SolidFire’s innovative design was created with
this in mind, and complements our leading Flash portfolio including the E2800,” said Bill Lipsin, vice president, Global Channels
at NetApp. “CRN’s recognition of these NetApp products reinforces the excitement we are hearing from our customers and partners who
depend on NetApp for consistent quality and reliability.”
The 2016 Products of the Year will be featured in the December issue of CRN and can be viewed online at www.crn.com/poty.
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customers capitalize on the value of their data in the hybrid cloud through our Data Fabric strategy, data management expertise,
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