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Net App, 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, Net App offers cloud data services for management of applications and data both online and physically.

Net App was founded in 1992 by David Hitz, James Lau, and Michael Malcolm as Network Appliance, Inc. At the time, its major competitor was Aus pex Systems. In 1994, Net App received venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital. It had its initial public offering in 1995. Net App 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, Net App’s revenues quickly declined to $800 million in its fiscal year 2002. Since then, the company’s revenue has steadily climbed.

In 2006, Net App sold the Net Cache product line to Blue Coat Systems.

In 2008, Network Appliance officially changed its legal name to Net App, 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 Net App announced its first End to End NVMe array called All Flash FAS A800 with release of ON TAP 9.4 software. Net App claims over 1.3 million IOPS at 500 microseconds per high-availability pair.

In January 2019 Dave Hitz announced retirement from Net App.

1997 – Internet Middle ware (IMC) acquired for $10.5 million. IMC’s web proxy caching software became the Net Cache 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 Net App was integrated into the Net App Near Store 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 San screen technology launched as such and probably later influencing Net App On Command Insight.
2010 – By cast acquired for $50 million. Technologies from By cast gave birth to the Storage GRID 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 Net App E-Series product line
2012 – Cache IQ: Development of NAS cache systems
2013 – Ion Grid: A technology developer that allows iOS devices to access users and internal business applications through a secure connection
2014 – Steel Store: Net App acquired Riverbed Technology’s Steel Store line of data backup and protection products, which it later renamed as Alta Vault and then to Cloud Backup
2015 – Solid Fire: In December 2015 (closing in January 2016), Net App acquired founded in 2009 flash storage vendor Solid Fire for $870 million.
2017 – Plexi stor: Net App first announced the acquisition of a company and technology called Plexi stor in May 2017. Technologies from Plexi stor gave start for MAX Data product
2017 – Green qloud was acquired with its Q stack 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 – CloudJumper: Cloud software in VDI and remote desktop services
2020 – Spot: handled compute management and cost optimization in the public clouds
2021 – CloudHawk.io: AWS Cloud Security Posture.
2021 – CloudCheckr: Cloud Optimization Platform.
2022 – Fylamynt: CloudOps automation technology company.
2022 – Instaclustr: open source database startup.

NetApp 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, Xy ratex, 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, Net App was named a leader, behind Pure Storage Systems. In 2019, Gartner named Net App as #1 in Primary Storage.

NetApp’s On Command management software controls and automates data-storage. ActiveIQ comes to Net App with the acquisition of Solid Fire. Active IQ is SaaS portal with built-in monitoring, prediction, recommendations for optimizing configurations and performance for Net App storage systems based on machine-learning capabilities and artificial intelligence. Later ON TAP Analytics and Telemetry Service (OATS) product, which can be installed in AWS cloud and on-premise, was renamed to Active IQ Performance Analytics Services (Active IQ PAS).

Information engineering is the engineering discipline that deals with the generation, distribution, analysis, and use of information, data, and knowledge in systems. The field first became identifiable in the early 21st century.

The components of information engineering include more theoretical fields such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, control theory, signal processing, and information theory, and more applied fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, bioinformatics, medical image computing, chem informatics, autonomous robotics, mobile robotics, and telecommunications. Many of these originate from computer science, as well as other branches of engineering such as computer engineering, electrical engineering, and bio engineering.

The field of information engineering is based heavily on mathematics, particularly probability, statistics, calculus, linear algebra, optimization, differential equations, variational calculus, and complex analysis.

Information engineers often hold a degree in information engineering or a related area, and are often part of a professional body such as the Institution of Engineering and Technology or Institute of Measurement and Control. They are employed in almost all industries due to the widespread use of information engineering.

In the 1980s/1990s term information engineering referred to an area of software engineering which has come to be known as data engineering in the 2010s/2020s.

Machine learning is the field that involves the use of statistical and probabilistic methods to let computers “learn” from data without being explicitly programmed. Data science involves the application of machine learning to extract knowledge from data.

Sub fields of machine learning include deep learning, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, semi-supervised learning, and active learning.

Causal inference is another related component of information engineering.

Control theory refers to the control of (continuous) dynamical systems, with the aim being to avoid delays, overshoots, or instability. Information engineers tend to focus more on control theory rather than the physical design of control systems and circuits (which tends to fall under electrical engineering).

Sub fields of control theory include classical control, optimal control, and nonlinear control.

ignal processing refers to the generation, analysis and use of signals, which could take many forms such as image, sound, electrical, or biological.

Information theory studies the analysis, transmission, and storage of information. Major sub fields of information theory include coding and data compression.