Enterprise Customers Gain Business Insight and Competitive Advantage With NetApp and Cloudera

SUNNYVALE, CA and PALO ALTO, CA, Nov 07 (MARKET WIRE)
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Global competition today is generating more, bigger, and more complex
data than ever before, from point-of-sale data to mobile phone data to
scientific and market research information. There is an opportunity for
enterprise customers to exploit new ways to manage and analyze this data
to spark innovation, make better decisions, and drive successful outcomes
that will create a competitive business advantage. Apache Hadoop has
emerged to process and analyze large, complex datasets in distributed
computing environments and help businesses improve insight into their
growing data.

NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced a preconfigured,
ready-to-deploy solution called NetApp(R) Open Solution for Hadoop that
will enable customers to maximize the value of their enterprise Hadoop
implementations with improved flexibility and performance and lower total
cost of ownership. NetApp and Cloudera, Inc., teamed to distribute
Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera
Enterprise, a subscription service comprised of Cloudera Support and
Hadoop management software, with NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop to speed
enterprise deployment and production use of Apache Hadoop.

NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop Removes Barriers to Analyzing Data

NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop is a packaged, ready-to-deploy modular
Hadoop cluster for enterprise Hadoop deployments, with the following
features and benefits:

-- Rapid deployment and simple scalability

-- Higher overall cluster performance

-- Reduced costs by providing self-healing technology, hardware RAID, and
global spare drives

-- Lower total cost of ownership

NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop provides customers with the access
and analytics to mine value from their data and to extract profit from
their big-data assets. Customers can leverage their existing server and
database systems for analytics on extremely large datasets and maximize
the return on investment of their data over time. Now customers have a
pathway to start with Hadoop.

"Customers are looking for business advantages from the wealth of their
unstructured data. Today, it's like finding a needle in a haystack," said
Rich Clifton, senior vice president and general manager, NetApp
Technology Enablement and Solutions Organization. "NetApp Open Solution
for Hadoop will help customers get answers fast and process more, as well
as provide the reliability and performance that our customers have come
to expect from NetApp."

NetApp and Cloudera Deliver Best-in-Class Hadoop Solution

NetApp and Cloudera give organizations an open, nonproprietary solution
that is highly scalable and offers enterprise storage features that
improve performance and reduce costs. Joint customers can leverage Hadoop
to accelerate adoption of analytic applications that deliver real-time
results across intense data and computational workloads. Together, NetApp
and Cloudera are delivering an open solution that enables a best-in-class
partner-based solution stack.

CDH is a major enabler for the enterprise adoption and production use of
Apache Hadoop. Enterprises can manage the complete operational lifecycle
of their Apache Hadoop systems because CDH facilitates deep visibility
into Hadoop clusters. It also automates the ongoing system changes needed
to maintain and improve the quality of operations.

"More applications work on CDH than any other Hadoop distribution, and
Cloudera is real-world proven by a broad range of companies across many
verticals. By partnering with NetApp, customers now have more choices and
the ability to deploy an open Hadoop solution with a leading storage
vendor," said Ed Albanese, head of Business Development for Cloudera.
"We're excited about the increasing diversity of architectures that
enables Hadoop to be used in more places and deliver greater
infrastructure efficiency, predictability, and simplicity."

"NetApp has a long history of supporting open standards and giving our
customers the flexibility and efficiency they need to drive results from
their data. Our strategy for Hadoop is no different, and we will give
customers choice for their Hadoop implementations, from enterprise-class
to open-source Apache Hadoop solutions," said Clifton. "Cloudera
strengthens our enterprise-ready NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, and
together we make deployment of enterprise Hadoop easier, simplify
management, and reduce the cost of deployments."

Visit NetApp and Cloudera at Hadoop World

To learn more, visit NetApp at Hadoop World, the largest conference of
Apache Hadoop practitioners, developers, and companies, in booth #2 in
the Platinum Sponsor Expo. For a complete agenda, visit
http://www.hadoopworld.com.

NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop Availability

The NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop includes both the NetApp E-Series
Storage platform and the FAS platform to deliver the performance and data
management capabilities customers require for their enterprise Hadoop
implementations. NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop will be available in
December 2011 through NetApp direct sales. For more information, visit
www.netapp.com.

About NetApp

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that
deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business
breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our core values and consistently
being recognized as a great place to work around the world are
fundamental to our long-term growth and success, as well as the success
of our pathway partners and customers. Discover our passion for helping
companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

About Cloudera

Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services,
enables data driven enterprises to easily derive business value from all
their structured and unstructured data. Cloudera's Distribution including
Apache Hadoop (CDH) is available to download for free at
www.cloudera.com/downloads and is the most comprehensive, tested, stable
and widely deployed distribution of Hadoop in commercial and
non-commercial environments. For the fastest path to reliably using this
completely open source technology in production for Big Data analytics
and answering previously un-addressable big questions, organizations can
subscribe to Cloudera Enterprise, comprised of Cloudera Support and a
portfolio of software including Cloudera Management Suite. Cloudera also
offers consulting services, training and certification on Apache
technologies. As the top contributor to the Apache open source community
and with tens of thousands of nodes under management across customers in
financial services, government, telecommunications, media, web,
advertising, retail, energy, bioinformatics, pharma/healthcare,
university research, oil and gas and gaming, Cloudera's depth of
experience and commitment to sharing expertise are unrivaled.

www.cloudera.com.

NetApp, the NetApp logo, and Go Further, Faster are trademarks or
registered trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the United States and/or other
countries.

Press Contacts:

Roger Villareal
NetApp
(408) 822-1959
roger.villareal@netapp.com

Hope Nicora
Cloudera
hnicora@bhavacom.com
(831) 227-3660

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