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This extremely important training module addresses an issue your team faces with each sales call: how to best enable your end users to fund their acquisitions, particularly with credit options beyond net 30. The presentation will introduce you to a range of financing and leasing opportunities while explaining the strengths and advantages of each.

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NetApp® Realize lets you quickly prepare a financial analysis for your customers. Win more new business by showing key financial values such as return on investment (ROI), net present value (NPV), total cost of ownership (TCO), and payback period. Learn more about the analysis provided, the key facts you need to gather from your customer for input, resources on Field Portal, etc.

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This tutorial will provide an overview of NetApp’s Windows Storage Consolidation™ (WSC), a suite of hardware, software and services that enables users to consolidate all Windows application data onto simple and reliable NetApp storage.

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This video demonstrates a real-world white boarding exercise that will help you sell NetApp’s Windows Storage Consolidation™ (WSC) solution. This example shows how you can easily outline a prospect’s challenges with file management, Exchange server and SharePoint, and outline a simple-to-understand solution with NetApp Windows Storage Consolidation.

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The NetApp NOW Web site offers a variety of service and support capabilities. By logging into the NetApp NOW Web site at now.netapp.com, you will be able to access technical assistance and documentation, download NetApp software and search the knowledgebase for solutions to common challenges.

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You’ll want to get familiarized with SMARTracker as it enables your company to effectively manage lead information for campaigns conducted by Avnet. Thanks to a proprietary architecture and the ability to update information on each lead, SMARTracker provides a true closed-loop lead management process and a method for calculating your return on investment (ROI).

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This highly beneficial tutorial will introduce you to the NetApp Field Portal and its many useful functions, all in a matter of a few minutes. The Field Portal is a Web based tool that contains all of your NetApp resources, technical tools and related information in one convenient, easy-to-use location.

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This tutorial will provide an overview of NetApp Campaign Express and show you how your company can profit from it. Campaign Express is an easy-to-use online management interface that helps our channel partners target new customers and increase sales.

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Experts from NetApp and VMware discuss new findings from their 5,000-seat POD performance test, specifically how not to size for desktop virtualization. Learn how these findings translate to achieving higher efficiency and performance with VMware View built on FlexPod. Click here for more information or to register.

Avnet is always looking for new ways to provide valuable training and resources to our valued NetApp partners. With this goal in mind, we've developed an informative webinar series to help you improve your NetApp skills.
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May 23, 2012 // 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

In this webcast, learn how NetApp supports and complements AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012.

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Topics to be covered include how NetApp helps DBAs and storage administrators:
• Manage Snapshot based backup lifecycles for databases in Availability Groups
• Provide disaster recovery for Availability Groups
• Use zero-space clones of Availability Groups to offload SQL workloads from production deployments
• Augment Availability Group replicas with additional lag copies for greater availability and restore options

May 23, 2012 // 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

May 23, 2012 // 4:30pm - 6:00pm CST

NetApp executive management will host a conference call with the financial analyst community at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time to provide their perspective on market dynamics and the company's performance. The call will be broadcast live via the Internet.

How to Participate:
The live Webcast call can be accessed at investors.netapp.com. Please allow at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the Webcast to log in. NetApp will guide you in downloading any necessary applications for the live audio feed. An audio replay Webcast will also be available after 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time on our Web site at investors.netapp.com.

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May 23, 2012 // 4:30pm - 6:00pm CST