2021 TCFD Index Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures Recommended Disclosures Answer, Cross-Reference, Omissions, and Explanations RISK MANAGEMENT Describe the organization’s processes for identifying and NetApp has implemented a robust Business Continuity Plan with its key vendors to ensure a resilient supply chain. assessing climate-related risks. NetApp’s Business Continuity Plan conducts Criticality Surveys for Critical Resources & Processes. Our Business Continuity Plan helps NetApp to be proactive and avoid any substantive financial or strategic impacts on our business. If a potential climate related risk is identified by a risk owner(s), the likelihood and frequency of the risk is assessed using a rating scale. This rating scale assigns a score to this risk which then determines the necessary actions and the pace at which these actions need to be executed. Describe the organization’s processes for managing NetApp believes in being proactive rather than reactive, and is able to foresee climate related risks and to mitigate climate-related risks. these risks by placing necessary procedures and processes in place. Extreme weather events caused by climate change (storms, droughts) could affect our supply chain. However, our suppliers have been diversified to a point where the impact is mitigated. Our key suppliers and contract manufacturers are located in all three geographies (Americas, EMEA and APAC). If one location were impacted due to any man-made or natural disaster, the other two locations could pick up the workload and help meet our customers' requirements. Our Business Continuity Plan prepares NetApp for any unforeseen incidents and reduces potential financial and strategic impacts. We do not consider climate risks at this point to have the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on our business. Describe how processes for identifying, assessing, and As enterprise data centers continue to migrate to the cloud, NetApp is uniquely positioned in this market managing climate-related risks are integrated into the transformation. The benefit of the migration to the cloud is that data centers in locations that have significant risk organization’s overall risk management. to climate change can transition to data centers in locations with less risk of climate change. NetApp is uniquely positioned with our Data Fabric product strategy to increase market share significantly and increases our opportunity as customers use the cloud as part of their climate change risk mitigation. NetApp's portfolio of Data Fabric products is not directly marketed as low carbon products. However, the efficiency gains of higher utilization and improved optimization of IT infrastructure and data management systems are in effect going to contribute to customers GHG reduction. Additionally, NetApp's All Flash Fabric-attached storage (AFF) is our data storage system that utilizes solid- state flash drives in place of traditional spinning disk drives. The NetApp AFF configuration reduces the size of IT data storage equipment and avoids GHG emissions by reducing the energy the IT equipment uses to perform the same task if using a different solution. Our investment in research and development is demonstrated through our commitment to maintaining ENERGY ® certifications for our Data Center Storage products. Additionally, our long-term strategy (5+ years) is focused STAR on ensuring our labs and data centers use energy efficiently. Future facilities are designed to green building standards (LEED), and our products are as or more energy-efficient than others storage products.