NetApp

1997 – Internet Middleware (IMC) acquired for $10.5 million. IMC's web proxy caching software became the product line (which was resold in 2006).

NetCache

2000 – Orca Systems, Inc., a Waltham, Massachusetts-based developer of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) software. This led to the development of the .^[15]

Direct Access File System

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.

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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 object storage product.

StorageGRID

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 . Launched as NetApp E-Series product line

LSI Corporation

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 's SteelStore line of data backup and protection products,^[17] which it later renamed as AltaVault^[18] and then to Cloud Backup

Riverbed Technology

2015 – SolidFire: In December 2015 (closing in January 2016), NetApp acquired founded in 2009 vendor SolidFire for $870 million.^[19]

flash storage

2017 – Plexistor: NetApp first announced the acquisition of a company and technology called Plexistor in May 2017. Technologies from Plexistor gave start for product

MAX Data

2017 – Greenqloud was acquired with its Qstack product. Greenqloud 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 –based developer of software to validate multiple converged infrastructures through their lifecycles

Littleton, Colorado

2018 – StackPointCloud: NetApp acquired StackPointCloud, a project for multi-cloud Kubernetes as-a-service and a contributor to the Kubernetes which started the product

Kubernetes Service

2019 – Cognigo: Israeli AI-driven data compliance and security supplier^[21]

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2020 – Talon: Cloud Data Storage company enabling data consolidation and security for enterprises.

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2020 – CloudJumper: Cloud software in and remote desktop services

VDI

2020 – Spot: handled compute management and cost optimization in the public clouds

2021 – CloudHawk.io: AWS Cloud Security Posture.

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2021 – CloudCheckr: Cloud Optimization Platform.

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2022 – Fylamynt: CloudOps automation technology company.

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2022 – Instaclustr: open source database startup.

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FlexPod based on and Cisco Nexus switches

Cisco Servers

nFlex based on with Extreme Networks switching

Fujitsu Servers

ONTAP AI using supercomputers with Mellanox or Cisco Nexus switches.

NVIDIA

SnapMirror replication from SolidFire to ONTAP

SnapMirror replication from ONTAP to Cloud Backup

FabricPool tiering feature for de-staging cold data from ONTAP to StorageGRID, Amazon S3 or Azure Blob

Volume Encryption with FabricPool provide secure data storage and secure over the wire transfer of enterprise data in a cloud provider; SnapMirror between FAS, AFF, ONTAP Select and Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Archiving and DR to public cloud

CloudMirror feature in StorageGRID replicates from on-premise object storage to Amazon S3 storage and triggers some actions in AWS Cloud

SolidFire backup to StorageGRID or Amazon S3

Cloud Backup archiving to variety of object storage systems (including StorageGRID) or many cloud providers

CloudSync is replication of NAS data to object format and back

replication to Cloud Volumes Service

Data backup to on-premise storage from SaaS Backup

SANtricity Cloud Connector for block-based backup, copy, and restore of E-Series volumes to an S3, NetApp Data Availability Services for data protection from ONTAP to cloud S3 storage with backup, DR and data mining capabilities, etc.

(WAFL), used in ONTAP storage systems

Write Anywhere File Layout

Team NetApp

Kaleidescape

. Communication News: 22–24. August 2001. ISSN 0010-3632. Archived from the original on August 9, 2001.

"Serving up storage solutions: Network Appliance CEO Dan Warmenhoven puts data in its place"

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