GEC NEWS WIREWill continue investing across the Middle East region in key markets including UAE, KSA, Qatar
NetApp has identified flash storage as a cornerstone of its growth strategy in the Middle East. The company, a $6.3 billion revenue vendor of storage systems with over 150 offices worldwide, has showcased its full flash portfolio at its stand at GITEX Technology Week 2014.
“The Middle East and North Africa region is now experiencing an unprecedented surge in demand for storage solutions, and we have invested heavily in the region to tap into this boom,” said Fadi Kanafani, regional director Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan, NetApp.
“NetApp has experienced above market-average growth in the past year in Middle East and North Africa, on the back of our varied portfolio, particularly flash and integrated solutions such as FlexPod. We are keen to build upon this success moving forward, and have recruited several key personnel across the region to help maintain our momentum, particularly in Saudi Arabia, where we are hiring locally in line with the Saudization initiative.”
With the industry’s most comprehensive flash portfolio, NetApp maximizes the value of flash across the entire compute, network, and storage stack, improving efficiency and accelerating business-critical application performance. All-flash configurations for NetApp FAS Unified Storage Arrays provide an ideal solution for desktop virtualization deployments with high IOPS and low latency requirements or large database workloads. NetApp also offers a variety of hybrid arrays that combine flash storage with disk drives to simplify operations, increase productivity through superior integration with ecosystem, extend system life and minimize future costs.
