Network Appliance, Inc. NASDAQ: NTAP is a network storage space and data management company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is an affiliate of the NASDAQ-100 and ranks on the Fortune 1000. The company employs about 5000 people worldwide.

Network Appliance is credited with the extensive adoption of Network Attached Storage or "NAS" and pioneered Unified Storage. Now Network Appliance storage products maintain a variety of storage protocols such as iSCSI SAN, Fibre Channel SAN, CIFS and NFS. The key technology behind most of Network Appliance’s product line is the Data ONTAP® storage functional system and WAFL® file system.

In December, 2006, IDC ranked Network Appliance fourth among vendors of storage software with 9.4% market share, ahead of Hewlett-Packard, and behind EMC Corporation, Symantec, and IBM. In the same month, IDC ranked Network Appliance second among traders Network Attached Storage with 30.2% market share, behind EMC, and first among vendors of iSCSI SAN vendors with 21.5% market share ahead of EMC and Hewlett-Packard.

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