Data played a role in countless challenges, projects, and triumphs this year — sometimes taking center stage, but more often working behind the scenes. Here’s a look back at some of its notable moments.

Fighting one of the worst droughts on record, California scientists and

engineers relied on instant access to more than 100 years of water flow,

climate, and population data, maintained by the California Natural Resources

Agency and built on technologies utilizing NetApp storage.

The final match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™

spurred a record

The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi

generated a record of

Based on data from NASA’s Kepler

Mission identified an unprecedented

batch of 715 new planets, bringing the total

known planets to nearly 1,700.

150,000stars

In February, the simple, nearly impossible

mobile game Flappy Bird reached

50 milliondownloads

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Within an hour of U2

o�ering their single

"Invisible" for free in a

Super Bowl XLVIII ad,

the song racked up

more than a million iTunes downloads.

The Sauber F1 Team collects around

200 gigabytes of data

per car during every Grand Prix. More than

100 onboard sensors stream live telemetry

data to a NetApp mobile data center for

real-time analysis and adjustments.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba manages an

average of

In September, it enjoyed the largest IPO in U.S.

history, raising $21.8 billion.

11.3 billionorders/year 231

millionactivebuyers

Ellen DeGeneres' celebrity-filled selfie at the

86th Academy Awards racked up more than

before the end of the telecast, breaking

Twitter records — and, briefly, Twitter itself.

2 millionretweets

NetApp's most powerful unified storage system to date,

the FAS8080 EX, debuted in June, o�ering 4 million IOPS

of performance and more than 4.6 petabytes of storage.

Wishing you many more great data moments in 2015

- The NetApp Team

280 millionFacebook interactions

618,725tweets / minute

4.1 billionviewers

102,000 hoursof TV and digital

broadcasting

Facebook users shared more than

ice bucket challengevideos to support ALS

research, reaching 440 million people, who

racked up 10 billion views.

17million

SourcesSauber http://www.stcars.sg/guides-articles/f1-as-much-a-technology-race-as-a-car-race-145359

Ice Bucket Challenge http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/08/the-ice-bucket-challenge-on-facebook/

FIFA World Cup http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/14/facebook-twitter-set-usage-records-for-world-cup-final/?mod=ST1

University of São Paulo http://www.netapp.com/us/media/ds-3610.pdf, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l0RRj6kEcU

NASA http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-a-planet-bonanza/#.VEA2ivnF98F

Olympics http://www.omegawatches.com/planet-omega/sport/sochi-2014

California Natural Resources http://www.netapp.com/us/system/pdf-reader.aspx?pdfuri=tcm:3-124145&m=ds%E2%80%91epic-cali-us.pdf

Alibaba http://www.zdnet.com/alibabas-1-billion-ipo-the-numbers-to-know-7000029150/ http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/alibaba-notches-largest-ipo-in-us-111125.html#ixzz3GQDwQA1F

Ellen Tweets http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/03/ellen-degeneres-selfie-retweet-obama

FAS8080EX http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/press-releases/news-rel-20140617-416006.aspx

Flappy Bird http://www.forbes.com/sites/lananhnguyen/2014/02/11/exclusive-flappy-bird-creator-dong-nguyen -says-app-gone-forever-because-it-was-an-addictive-product/

iTunes Downloads http://www.u2.com/news/title/three-million-and-counting/

University of São Paulo in Brazil deployed the first and largest private cloud in Latin America with

NetApp, Cisco and Citrix. They consolidated 150 datacenters to

6 datacentersreducing storagerequirements by

90%

despite 300%growth in data