Since then they've gotten into the Web Proxy business. In Austin, NetApps has four sales representatives, two Sales Engineers, a Field Engineer, and about ten support staff. The whole company does about ten billion a year in sales. Their current NFS offering includes a patented backup system that allows administrators to clone snapshots of the filesystems. On the remote system, these versions look to be complete copies.
Users can revert to previous versions without any administrative assistance.
This snapshot mechanism works with several different backup packages, such as Veritas and Legatto. It's lean and quick. You can reboot in 60-90 seconds. Earlier versions ran on 486 Intel versions with a DOS like shell that let you ifconfig, exportfs, etc. NetApps used to be considerably cheaper than Auspex, but no longer.