Storage and data management solution provider NetApp has introduced two new storage system platforms to provide greater flexibility to accommodate ever-changing enterprise application environments.
The two new releases are the high-performance FAS8080EX, designed to run performance-intensive SAN and NAS workloads at the largest scale, and the entry level FAS2500 hybrid arrays, which can simplify operations, increase productivity through superior integration with the ecosystem, extend system life and minimise future costs, according to NetApp.
George Kurian, executive vice president, product operations, NetApp, said, “Our unified scale-out FAS storage systems integrate the latest flash, networking, and processor technology innovations with the advanced storage and data management capabilities of the world’s #1 branded storage operating system, Data ONTAP, to accelerate the performance of the most demanding business-critical applications.
“With today’s introduction of our highest-performance FAS system ever and our best-value entry product family, we at NetApp provide enterprises and service providers with the opportunity to streamline and make their storage infrastructures substantially more efficient while building in the flexibility to rapidly respond to real-time business priorities.”
The complete FAS unified, scale-out storage system portfolio is designed to support the most demanding enterprise application workloads, such as those from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, and Citrix.
For example, the resilient FAS8080 EX scales to ~4 million IPOS of performance and offers advanced quality-of-service capabilities for predictable performance that meets or exceeds challenging service-level objectives. For high-speed, low-latency applications, the FAS 8080 EX can be configured either as an all-flash array with >4.6 petabytes of flash storage or as a hybrid array with a flash cache of nearly half a petabyte. It also dynamically responds to growing data requirements with scaling to nearly 70PB of capacity.
According to NetApp, its hybrid architecture combined with patented storage clustering technology maximises uptime and delivers low-latency performance to enable predictable application performance.
