The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company reported $1.14 billion in sales in the quarter, which ended July 30, compared with $838 million during the same period last year. Net income for the quarter was almost triple last year's first quarter. The company reported $142 million compared with $52 million for Q1 2010.
"Our results indicate we are achieving clear customer preference as IT organizations transform their data centers," NetApp CEO Tom Georgens said in a statement.
NetApp's stock price closed at $39.32 a share on the Nasdaq stock market today, up $.67 cents, or 1.73%.
NetApp credited much of its growth to and other partners to offer a greater breadth of public and private offerings.
NetApp's three-year agreement with focuses on collaboration on virtualized infrastructure technology based on Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Microsoft System Center and NetApp storage systems.
Through the collaboration, NetApp released NetApp SnapManager 6.0 for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and to help users transition to SharePoint 2010.
The company also to offer Fibre Channel over Ethernet certified networks for virtual server environments.
The FCoE protocol works by wrapping Fibre Channel packets in Ethernet headers to send them over traditional Ethernet networks while preserving the Fibre Channel protocol. Typically, because it is sharing bandwidth with traditional server traffic, FCoE systems operate over 10Gbit/sec Ethernet ports.
NetApp estimated revenue for its next quarter would be between $1.16 billion and $1.21 billion.
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