Network Appliance Reseller Partner Program 用户手册

1993
Industry First NAS
Appliance

1995
Initial Public Offering

1996
Industry First 
Multiprotocol 
Storage Appliance

1997
Industry First Network
Storage Appliance
Certified for Oracle 

1998
Industry First Content 
Delivery Appliance

1999
Added to NASDAQ-
100 and S&P 500

2000
Co-Founded DAFS
Collaborative

2001
First Block-Based
Network Storage 
Products

2002
Industry First Nearline 
Storage Appliance

2002
Industry First 
Unified SAN and 
NAS Appliance

network appliance progress and milestones

Along with technically superior storage

products, Network Appliance backs its

solutions with services, R&D, testing, and

partner alliances to support your efforts.

Network Appliance also provides a range

of best practices, architecture, design,

implementation, and integration services

to help you rapidly implement solutions

for your customers under the full range 

of commercial best practices.  

In addition, Network Appliance works

with a wide range of hardware, software,

and IT industry leaders to provide com-

prehensive solutions that enable you to

support a customer’s most aggressive 

e-business initiatives with complete, 

highly available, and totally efficient 

business infrastructures. You gain a real

competitive advantage while your cus-

tomers get turnkey solutions that solve

their most critical business problems. 

NetApp Professional Services works 

with you and your customers to provide 

a storage solution that meets their unique

requirements—assessing the customer’s

specific operational and technical needs,

designing the storage network architec-

ture, and deploying and managing 

the solution. 

To ensure that your customer’s employ-

ees always work at maximum efficiency,

NetApp Educational Services provides

comprehensive training and certification

programs. Available anytime and any-

where, our comprehensive NOW

™

(NetApp on the Web) site features an

array of self-service tools that give your

customers the knowledge and information

they need to manage their storage 

solution. NOW provides online technical

assistance, a large knowledge base 

of NetApp storage solutions, real-time 

engineering support, details on the 

customer’s installed base, and more. 

The Network Appliance VIP (Very

Important Partner) Program is focused 

on keeping NetApp resellers successful

and on the competitive edge with industry-

leading products and solutions, excellent

discount levels, and comprehensive 

sales, marketing, demo, training, and 

certification programs focused on winning

and retaining customers.