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NetApp ®, Inc. (NetApp, we or us) is a leader in data insight, access and control for hybrid cloud environments. We provide global organizations the ability to manage and share their data across on-premises, private and public clouds. We were incorporated in 1992 and are headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. NetApp, together with our partners, provides a full range of enterprise-class solutions that customers use to modernize their infrastructures, build next generation data centers and harness the power of hybrid clouds. We continue to pioneer a Data Fabric platform that allows infrastructure experts, cloud architects, developers and CIOs to easily and securely unite and manage data across the widest variety of environments.  In a world where technology is changing our everyday lives, digital transformation tops the strategic agenda in most organizations. For organizations to be successful in their digital transformations, data must become the lifeblood of an organization, seamlessly flowing through it to optimize operations, create innovative business opportunities and enable new customer touchpoints through technology. Correspondingly, IT leaders are under tremendous pressure to harness today’s wealth of data and apply it to create new value across the entire organization—all with limited time, skills and budget. Building a data-centric organization is no small undertaking. No longer is data locked away on devices hidden behind firewalls. Instead, it is becoming distributed, dynamic and diverse. Thriving in this environment requires a holistic approach to data insight, access and control that is secure, efficient, future-proof and provides freedom of choice. To help our customers and partners manage and share their data across on-premises, and private and public clouds, we are: Focusing on the customer by delivering an exceptional customer experience and becoming their preferred data partner; and Extending our cloud integration and hybrid cloud leadership through the NetApp Data Fabric platform and expanding our consumption model offerings to match customer needs across cloud and on-premises offerings. The NetApp Data Fabric is a platform designed to simplify, automate and evolve the management of data. Data Fabric empowers our customers to seamlessly liberate, integrate and unleash the full potential of their data in a cloud, hybrid and on-premises world. Built for the challenges and opportunities of the data-centric world, NetApp products and solutions are designed for simplicity and optimized to manage, protect and secure data. Because the Data Fabric platform is open by design, we can constantly fuel innovation and flexibility. Our products and solutions portfolio centers on the digital transformation phases through which our customers are progressing: modernizing storage and data management, building next generation data centers and harnessing the power of hybrid cloud. Flash plays a key role in customers’ digital transformation efforts as they seek to gain advantage through greater speed, responsiveness and value from key business applications, while lowering total cost of ownership. All-flash array technology is the de facto choice for primary application workloads as customers seek performance and economic benefits by replacing hard disk installations. With a highly differentiated and broad portfolio of all-flash and hybrid array offerings, NetApp is well positioned to enable customers to accomplish this transition. The AFF A-Series All-Flash Arrays supply enterprise class scale-out all flash storage, harnessing the power of ONTAP and OnCommand software to deliver the industry’s most advanced data management and protection, along with high efficiency, performance and availability. The AFF A-Series is also the fastest enterprise All-Flash storage in the smallest package available in today’s market. The first generation of our All-Flash Array line, AFF8000 systems delivers all-flash performance with best-in-class data management. Through FlashEssentials software optimizations, we increase flash performance and efficiency. AFF models can be ordered as standalone systems and as a converged infrastructure validated design. Professional services, delivered by NetApp or its partners, help users identify those workloads that are best served by all-flash systems. SolidFire All-Flash Arrays deliver fully automated agility and guaranteed application performance at web scale so customers can achieve the next-generation data center. The NetApp SolidFire SF-Series 19210 decreases the cost of all-flash arrays by offering the highest density and lowest cost per GB/IOPS, making it well suited for heavily virtualized and cloud infrastructures. EF-Series all-flash arrays deliver fast, consistent response times to accelerate high-performance databases and data analytics. NetApp SANtricity Plug-Ins for Microsoft, Oracle, Splunk and VMware provide a consolidated view of the NetApp EF-Series systems, enabling users to monitor and manage their NetApp EF-Series storage from the application, reducing the total cost of ownership by eliminating the need to manually compile critical information from several different tools. With our all-flash array portfolio, NetApp is enabling customers to modernize storage and data management to boost performance in their traditional data centers, while mapping out their move to a hybrid cloud. Source: www.sec.gov