Enterprise storage and data management leader accelerates flash adoption with the industry’s broadest all-flash portfolio 
 
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 28 August 2016 – NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced today that it has been named a Leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays, based on its ability to execute and its completeness of vision. According to Gartner, Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.*

“We believe our position as a Leader in this year’s Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays underscores the fact that NetApp is enabling customers’ successful transition to flash,” said George Kurian, chief executive officer of NetApp. “As flash replaces hard disk drives for primary workloads, we are winning against and replacing both established and emerging vendors because of the successful business outcomes enabled by our highly differentiated all-flash-array portfolio.”

A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, providing readers with a wide-angle view of the relative position of the market’s offerings. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, Gartner Magic Quadrants assess vendors on their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision. 

NetApp delivers the industry’s broadest portfolio of all-flash arrays, providing customers with unrivalled scale, speed and data services for next-generation enterprise and webscale data centres. The NetApp® flash portfolio helps customers achieve the best outcomes across priority deployment models, including performance applications, virtualised infrastructure and cloud-like infrastructure.