Net platform, which is its strategy for delivering software as services available over the Internet from any computing device.

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This becomes even more important as storage software and services are comparatively more valuable as a business than storage hardware as demonstrated in our EMC model above.

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NetApp is involved in designing solutions for storing, managing and protecting business data through enterprise storage and data management software as well as hardware products and services.

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