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NET app engineer Innovation

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NetApp, Inc. is an American hybrid cloud data services and data management company headquartered in San Jose, California. It has ranked in the Fortune 500 from 2012–2021. Founded in 1992 with an IPO in 1995, NetApp offers cloud data services for management of applications and data both online and physically.

NetApp was founded in 1992 by David Hitz, James Lau, and Michael Malcolm as Network Appliance, Inc. At the time, its major competitor was Auspex Systems. In 1994, NetApp received venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital. It had its initial public offering in 1995. NetApp thrived in the internet bubble years of the mid 1990s to 2001, during which the company grew to $1 billion in annual revenue. After the bubble burst, NetApp’s revenues quickly declined to $800 million in its fiscal year 2002. Since then, the company’s revenue has steadily climbed.

In 2006, NetApp sold the NetCache product line to Blue Coat Systems.

In 2008, Network Appliance officially changed its legal name to NetApp, Inc., reflecting the nickname by which it was already well-known.

On June 1, 2015, Tom Georgens stepped down as CEO and was replaced by George Kurian.

In May 2018 NetApp announced its first End to End NVMe array called All Flash FAS A800 with release of ONTAP 9.4 software. NetApp claims over 1.3 million IOPS at 500 microseconds per high-availability pair. In January 2019 Dave Hitz announced retirement from NetApp.

• 1997 – Internet Middleware (IMC) acquired for $10.5 million. IMC’s web proxy caching software became the NetCache product line (which was resold in 2006).
• 2004 – Spinnaker Networks acquired for $300 million. Technologies from Spinnaker integrated into Data ONTAP GX and first released in 2006, later Data ONTAP GX become Clustered Data ONTAP
• 2005 – Alacritus acquired for $11 million. The tape virtualization technology Alacritus brought to NetApp was integrated into the NetApp NearStore Virtual Tape Library (VTL) product line, introduced in 2006.
• 2005 – Decru: Storage security systems and key management.
• 2006 – Topio acquired for $160 million. Software that helped replicate, recover, and protect data over any distance regardless of the underlying server or storage infrastructure. This technology became known as ReplicatorX (Open System SnapVault), and has since been abandoned.
• 2008 – Onaro acquired for $120 million. Storage service management software which helps customers manage storage more efficiently with guaranteed service levels for availability and performance. Onaro’s SANscreen technology launched as such and probably later influencing NetApp OnCommand Insight.
• 2010 – Bycast acquired for $50 million. Technologies from Bycast gave birth to the StorageGRID object storage product.
• 2011 – Akorri acquired for $60 million, allowing for cross-domain analysis and advanced analytics across data center infrastructures.
• 2011 – Engenio (LSI) acquired for $480 million. Engenio was the external storage systems business unit of the LSI Corporation. Launched as NetApp E-Series product line
• 2012 – Cache IQ: Development of NAS cache systems
• 2013 – IonGrid: A technology developer that allows iOS devices to access users and internal business applications through a secure connection
• 2014 – SteelStore: NetApp acquired Riverbed Technology’s SteelStore line of data backup and protection products, which it later renamed as AltaVault and then to Cloud Backup
• 2015 – SolidFire: In December 2015 (closing in January 2016), NetApp acquired founded in 2009 flash storage vendor Solid Fire for $870 million.
• 2017 – Plexistor: NetApp first announced the acquisition of a company and technology called Plexistor in May 2017. Technologies from Plexistor gave start for MAX Data product
• 2017 – Green qloud was acquired with its Qstack product. Green qloud was a private startup company that created cloud services, orchestration and management platform for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
• 2017 – Immersive Partner Solutions, a Little ton, Colorado-based developer of software to validate multiple converged infrastructures through their life cycles
• 2018 – Stack Point Cloud: Net App acquired Stack Point Cloud, a project for multi-cloud Kubernetes as-a-service and a contributor to the Kubernetes which started the Kubernetes Service product
• 2019 – Cognigo: Israeli AI-driven data compliance and security supplier
• 2020 – Talon: Cloud Data Storage company enabling data consolidation and security for enterprises.
• 2020 – Cloud Jumper: Cloud software in VDI and remote desktop services
• 2020 – Spot: handled compute management and cost optimization in the public clouds
• 2021 – Cloud Hawk.io: AWS Cloud Security Posture. 
• 2021 – Cloud Checkr: Cloud Optimization Platform.
• 2022 – Fylam ynt: Cloud Ops automation technology company.
• 2022 – Instaclustr: open source database startup.

Net App competes in the computer data storage hardware industry. In 2009, Net App ranked second in market capitalization in its industry behind EMC Corporation, now Dell EMC, and ahead of Sea gate Technology, Western Digital, Brocade, Imation, and Quantum. In total revenue of 2009, Net App ranked behind EMC, Sea gate, Western Digital, and ahead of Imation, Brocade, Xyratex, and Hutchinson Technology. According to a 2014 IDC report, Net App ranked second in the network storage industry “Big 5’s list”, behind EMC (Dell), and ahead of IBM, HP and Hitachi. According to Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays, NetApp was named a leader, behind Pure Storage Systems. In 2019, Gartner named Net App as #1 in Primary Storage.