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NetApp Named Zumasys’ 2007 Vendor of the Year Solution Provider Generates Nearly $1M in NetApp Storage Sales


Lake Forest, California – January 10, 2008 – Zumasys announced today that it named NetApp, the leading provider of IP-based Storage Area Networks (SANs), as its Vendor of the Year for 2007. Zumasys signed NetApp as a new vendor in May of 2007 and generated nearly $1MM in NetApp sales in just 6 short months by focusing on the burgeoning market for server consolidation, virtualization, and disaster recovery within the small-to-medium business marketplace.

"NetApp enables Zumasys to provide value-added solutions that solve multiple pain points for our customers," explains William Hiatt, Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Zumasys. "These pain points often include backup and recovery, replication, disaster recovery, and scalability. By utilizing NetApp's leading Data OnTap software coupled with its Snap suite of products, we are able to deliver these solution sets to our clients for a fraction of the cost of the competition."

The architectural simplicity of NetApp storage systems and specifically the new FAS2000 series, allows customers to readily consolidate direct-attached storage (DAS) into a single networked solution that can scale on demand. By simply pooling storage, NetApp lets midsize enterprise customers logically allocate data resources as needed. This ability to speed the overall provisioning process means an accelerated ability to control changing environments using exciting new iSCSI network-based protocol or traditional Fibre Channel connectivity.

“SANs are ideal for companies that require performance, redundancy and storage on demand,” says Dan Putnam, VP Sales for Zumasys. “The price point, however, has typically been out of reach for small to medium businesses. Fortunately, enterprise storage is now affordable with products such as the NetApp FAS2020, and becomes even more cost effective when combined with a server consolidation initiative. We recognize that NetApp like Zumasys is delivering enterprise level technology to the SMB space!”

A leading provider of complete IT solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, Zumasys attributes its growth to it’s focus on emerging technologies such as Virtualization, VoIP and 3G Wireless.

NetApp has more than 15,000 production deployments of NetApp® SAN (storage area network) solutions. Customer adoption of NetApp in the data center has made the company one of the storage industry’s fastest growing enterprise SAN solution providers, outpacing Fibre Channel market growth and extending its market leadership in IP SAN solutions. NetApp grew fastest among the top five storage replication software vendors in 2007 and currently holds the number two position, narrowing the gap with the current replication market leader, while offering a much better price point and increased functionality.

About Zumasys, Inc.
Zumasys specializes in architecting and implementing multi-vendor technology solutions that solve IT challenges for small to medium businesses. The company focuses on preserving and evolving legacy systems, business continuity & disaster recovery and allowing remote branches and mobile users to connect to applications wirelessly using 3G Wireless. Zumasys’ technology seminar series have attracted wide-spread attention and accolades from customers, vendors and press alike. Its deployments have been featured in publications including Computerworld, eWEEK, Network World and Computer Reseller News. Zumasys was named on of the fastest growing solution provides by CRN Magazine 3 years in a row and is the only company to have winners or finalists appear on all 5 years of QUALCOMM’s prestigious A-List Awards for Wireless Innovation. Zumasys is a Microsoft Gold Partner and holds reseller agreements with Citrix Systems, DoubleTake Software, HP, IBM, NetApp, Panasonic, Sierra Wireless, SonicWALL and VMware. Zumasys is headquartered in Lake Forest, CA.

About NetApp
NetApp is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, NetApp has delivered technology, product, and partner firsts that simplify data management. Information about NetApp solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.