Before joining NetApp, in 2010, she was group vice president, Information Technology, at Safeway Inc.
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Cynthia Stoddard is the senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) at NetApp.
NetApp on Wednesday afternoon reported better-than-expected profits for its fiscal first quarter ended July 27.
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In its recent post on crowdfunding, NetApp was thrilled with the resulting audience interaction.
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Pricey properties like NetApp trade almost 50 percent below their highs set near yearend, 2010.
Major technology properties like Hewlett Packard, Dell and NetApp just broke down and are contagious.
And that puts it in the league with NetApp and DataDomain during their early growth spurts.
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For companies like NetApp, being seen to be reactionary can be a bad thing.
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Tech houses sell near 10 times earnings whether it be Oracle, EMC or NetApp.
NetApp which experienced a slow quarter last time around will announce its Q2 results this afternoon.
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NetApp works with both Cloudera and another Hadoop company, Hortonworks (note the Dr. Seuss elephant reference).
In fact, the company was the target of a bidding war, which involved NetApp (Nasdaq:NTAP).
As storage companies like EMC, IBM, and NetApp love to point out, data is exploding.
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Most analysts think investors should stand pat on NetApp, with 18 of 30 analysts rating it hold.
Activity in NetApp LEAPS indicates one options player expects the price of the underlying to improve going forward.
This transformation requires efficient network storage systems, providing additional growth opportunities for storage players like NetApp and EMC.
NetApp, a leading provider of data storage solutions, has always had a strong presence among mid-size business clients.
In cloud computer service and storage operators like EMC, NetApp and Red Hat are big market share winners.
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In the NAS market, in particular, EMC has a dominant 46.7% revenue share followed by NetApp at 30.9%.
The majority of analysts think investors should stand pat on NetApp, with 19 of 27 analysts rating it hold.
And our growth is far outpacing IBM, EMC, HP, and now recently NetApp.
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NetApp is making significant efforts to expand its share in the cloud storage.
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NetApp, show that your innovation is truly leading the market to new heights, not following others to get there.
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In fact, this is not the first time that NetApp has trailed EMC on either announcing or delivery technology.
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This may all be theory, but this has been my experience at NetApp.
Established companies such as EMC, NetApp, Oracle and HDS are adding flash memory to their storage systems.
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Nutanix, like other upstarts in this space, are taking on incumbents EMC, NetApp and other network storage companies.
For deeper inspection go to SiliconANGLE.com or Wikibon.org for all the data on Netapp and the Flash market.
In the enterprise infrastructure market, I am often asked about the long term rivalry between EMC and NetApp.
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