SUNNYVALE, Calif.—NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery. The new report positions providers based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute (“Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery”).

“As customers look for new approaches to adapt to the growth and pace of business, they are investing in the NetApp integrated data protection platform for its application integration, ease-of-use and ability to manage terabytes to petabytes of data,” said Chris Cummings, vice president, Product and Solutions Marketing at NetApp. “We believe our position in the Gartner Visionaries quadrant is strong recognition of our longstanding history of innovation in backup and recovery solutions, and demonstrates the efficiency, performance, and cost savings we provide for our customers.”

Backup and recovery technology is a key element of integrated data protection—one of the NetApp eight key purchasing criteria for enabling a flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructure. Customers are increasingly choosing NetApp backup and recovery solutions to safeguard critical data, drive greater operational efficiencies, and decrease overall costs. These solutions are widely recognized in the industry for unique innovations such as efficient snapshot techniques that allow customers to perform faster backups, improve performance, reduce costs, and minimize overall storage capacity requirements. Customers can reduce disk capacity requirements by as much as 90% using disk-to-disk backups, which transfer only new or changed blocks to shrink backup windows and minimize network traffic. Integrated data protection technologies and extended partner offerings from NetApp also enable customers to take advantage of the NetApp unified storage and data management capabilities in non-NetApp environments, allowing customers to gain greater efficiencies and maximize the value of existing investments.