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Tag line, tag line Net. App HPC Update 28 th HPC User Forum April 2008 Norfolk, Virginia

Net. App at a Glance $3. 0 B FY 07: $2. 8 Billion $2. 0 B $1 B 02 03 04 05 06 07 ¡Worldwide, enterprise customers ¡Broad portfolio of innovative storage and data management solutions ¡Industry-leading partners ¡Comprehensive professional services ¡Global support ¡Customer success fuels our growth ~7000+ Employees Fortune 1000 © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. Offices in over 110 countries NASDAQ 100 S&P 500 2

What Net. App Sees in Storage Adoption ¡Net. App acquired Spinnaker in Feb 2004 ¡HPC Storage was niche market ¡Little Infiniband, no 10 Gig. E 2004 Market Adoption Cycles Direct-Attached Storage © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. Networked Storage Scale-Out 3 3

Faster Scale-Out Compute and Storage Adoption ¡Compute clusters adopted more broadly ¡HPC storage adoption accelerating ¡Much faster pipes 2008 Market Adoption Cycles Direct-Attached Storage © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. Networked Storage Scale-Out 4 4

Broader Adoption of ONTAP GX ¡Rapid GX Sales Growth – Oil & gas, semiconductors – Entertainment (DCC) – Financial services, manufacturing ¡Beyond Traditional HPC environments ¡Windows-powered compute clusters ¡Digital archive environments © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 5

Data ONTAP GX Scales As Needed ® Windows® Linux® Cluster UNIX® Scalable Flex. Cache Acceleration Layer ¡ Simple to manage ¡ Linear Scaling Global Namespace, File and Directory Striping ¡ Transparent data movement ¡ Highly reliable ¡ Fully integrated FC FC SATA FC Data ONTAP GX System Complete Solution for Scale-out and Digital Media © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 6

What’s New in ONTAP GX ¡Wider platform support ¡More disk options ¡Infiniband support (gateway) ¡More scalable CIFS ¡Easier to manage ¡Support for front-end caching © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 7

What’s Next for Net. App HPC Storage? ¡NFS v 4. 1, p. NFS, and RDMA – Net. App contributing to standards – See Storage panel on Tuesday ¡More scalability, speed and capacity ¡More enterprise features – – Better data protection Manageability Services & Training Data cloning and deduplication © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 8

Thank you © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 9