NetApp
American technology company
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| 2024 | Consulting firm Frost & Sullivan named NetApp "Global Company of the Year in the hybrid cloud storage management industry", recognizing its leadership in cloud storage technology. |
| 2023 | NetApp was named "Best Company to Work For" by U.S. News & World Report, demonstrating its excellence as an employer. |
| 2023 | NetApp reached a revenue of US$6.36 billion in its fiscal year, which ran from April 30, 2022, to April 28, 2023. |
| 2022 | NetApp switched to a new global e-waste partner and began promoting WEEE-compliant programs to reduce electronic waste. |
| 2022 | NetApp ranked among the top 7% of companies rated by EcoVadis for environmental sustainability at the end of the year. |
| 2022 | NetApp completed a new facility at Wichita State University's Innovation Campus in Kansas, which is powered 100% by local wind power. |
| 2022 | Acquired Fylamynt (CloudOps automation) and Instaclustr, an open source database startup. |
| July 2022 | NetApp initiated a partnership with the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team, expanding its involvement in motorsport data services. |
| 2021 | Acquired CloudHawk.io for AWS Cloud Security Posture and CloudCheckr, a Cloud Optimization Platform. |
| 2021 | NetApp made $3 million in corporate donations during the fiscal year, demonstrating significant philanthropic commitment. |
| 2021 | NetApp employees volunteered 2,141 times for social projects and charitable causes through the NetApp Serves program. |
| 2021 | NetApp improved its CDP Climate Change Score to B-, demonstrating progress in environmental reporting and sustainability efforts. |
| 2021 | NetApp continued its presence in the Fortune 500 list, maintaining its status as a leading data infrastructure company. |
| March 1 2021 | NetApp announced a partnership with the Aston Martin F1 Team, taking responsibility for data provision and cloud services for the racing team. |
| 2020 | Made multiple strategic acquisitions including Cognigo (AI-driven data compliance), Talon (cloud data storage), CloudJumper (cloud VDI software), and Spot (cloud compute management). |
| 2020 | SANtricity 11.50 introduced support for NVMe over Ethernet (RoCEv2) with 100 Gbit/s Ethernet ports and NVMe over InfiniBand for E-Series systems EF570 and E5700. |
| 2019 | NetApp was Named Brand of the Year by the Think Global Awards, highlighting the company's brand strength and recognition. |
| August 2019 | NetApp announced the E600 storage system with support for multiple NVMe protocols (NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/FC), offering up to 44 GBps of bandwidth and a full-function embedded REST API. |
| January 2019 | Dave Hitz announced his retirement from NetApp. |
| 2018 | NetApp established a partnership with the MotoGP team Ducati Corse, providing data services and support to the racing team. |
| 2018 | Acquired StackPointCloud, a multi-cloud Kubernetes service project, which started NetApp's Kubernetes Service product. |
| September 13 2018 | NetApp and Lenovo announced a technology partnership, with Lenovo beginning to OEM NetApp products under its own brand names: Lenovo ThinkSystem DE and ThinkSystem DM. |
| May 2018 | NetApp announced its first end-to-end NVMe array, the All Flash FAS A800, with the release of ONTAP 9.4 software, claiming over 1.3 million IOPS at 500 microseconds per high-availability pair. |
| 2017 | NetApp began a comprehensive effort to reduce energy consumption, which would lead to a 15% reduction in energy use by 2022 and a 61% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. |
| May 2017 | Announced acquisitions of multiple companies: Plexistor (which started the MAX Data product), Greenqloud (cloud services and management platform), and Immersive Partner Solutions (infrastructure validation software). |
| December 2015 | Acquired SolidFire, a flash storage vendor founded in 2009, for $870 million, with the deal closing in January 2016. |
| June 1 2015 | Tom Georgens stepped down as CEO and was replaced by George Kurian. |
| 2014 | According to an IDC report, NetApp ranked second in the network storage industry 'Big 5's list', positioned behind EMC (Dell) and ahead of IBM, HP, and Hitachi. |
| May 29 2014 | IBM ended its OEM partnership with NetApp for FAS systems, terminating the IBM N-series branded product line. |
| April 7 2014 | US Department of Commerce notified NetApp that it had completed its review and determined the company had not violated US export laws, closing the file on the Syrian surveillance matter. |
| 2013 | NetApp was listed amongst Silicon Valley Top 25 Corporate Philanthropists, recognizing the company's significant charitable contributions. |
| 2012 | NetApp first ranked in the Fortune 500 list, marking its significant growth and prominence in the enterprise technology sector. |
| 2011 | George Kurian joined NetApp as an executive, later becoming Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. |
| 2011 | Completed two major acquisitions: Akorri for $60 million (enabling cross-domain analysis and advanced analytics) and Engenio from LSI Corporation for $480 million, launching the NetApp E-Series product line. |
| November 2011 | NetApp was identified as one of several companies whose products were allegedly used by the Syrian government during the 2011 Syrian uprising, with equipment sold through an authorized reseller. |
| 2010 | Acquired Bycast for $50 million, whose technologies formed the basis of the StorageGRID object storage product. |
| September 9 2010 | NetApp announced an agreement with Oracle Corporation (which had acquired Sun Microsystems) to dismiss ongoing patent-related lawsuits. |
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