NetApp announced updates to its portfolio of
enterprise storage offerings including new NetApp AFF A-Series and AFF
C-Series systems with mid-range, all-flash, unified data storage at
price points for businesses of any size and updates to NetApp
StorageGRID, driving improved density and performance for object
storage.
Today's dynamic enterprises need an intelligent data strategy to
address the challenges of modern data management, such as exponential
data growth, multi-cloud complexity, and the need for AI readiness.
Intelligent Data Infrastructure is a comprehensive framework that
empowers organizations to define and implement a transformative
intelligent data strategy that is secure, agile, and future-ready.
With these new innovations, customers can now expand their
intelligent data infrastructure using NetApp's leading data storage
systems at more accessible entry points, making it easier to scale up
from a smaller starting point or expand their capabilities to remote and
branch locations. These new systems enable customers to power the
growing scope of critical workloads, such as database applications and
AI, or tap into the efficiency of all-flash storage to manage the
growing volumes of data under their control. By leveraging intelligent
data infrastructure that delivers performance, capacity, and a unified
framework, customers can make their data a strategic asset that enables
more informed decision-making and drives innovation.
NetApp is making the storage that turbocharges mission-critical
workloads available to every customer by releasing additional models for
its AFF A-Series storage systems. Like the high-end AFF models, the new
NetApp AFF A20, A30, and A50 models deliver advanced capabilities
including sub-millisecond latency with up to 2.5X better performance
over their predecessors, guaranteed storage efficiency, integrated
real-time ransomware protection with 99+ percent accuracy, and improved
storage density, all at an affordable price-point.
Customers can build or expand their intelligent data infrastructure
for high-performance workloads with storage deployments at the scale and
price point that works best for them. For customers who want to start
small and grow or build out deployments in remote or branch locations,
the AFF A20 starts at a capacity point as low as 15.35TB. The AFF A30
allows customers to start small but scale to over 1PB of raw storage.
And the AFF A50 delivers two times the performance of its predecessor in
a third of the rack space to power commercial and enterprise
businesses.
New NetApp AFF C-Series systems are designed to deliver more value
for general purpose workloads and workload consolidation across unified
file, block, and object storage protocols by delivering maximum density
and efficiency with seamless scaling. The NetApp AFF C30, C60, and C80
systems make the performance and efficiency gains of flash more
accessible to businesses by providing an industry-leading 1.5PB of
storage capacity in two-rack deployments. Customers modernizing their
data centers from hybrid flash will experience benefits including up to a
95 percent floor space savings, power savings up to 97 percent, and
built-in real-time ransomware protection with 99+ percent accuracy,
lowering their total cost of ownership.
"The unrelenting growth of data volumes and increasingly demanding
workloads have put increasing pressure on IT teams of any size to
provide simplicity at scale for all their workloads," said Sandeep
Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Storage
at NetApp. "Customers facing those challenges can rely on NetApp to
deliver continuous innovation, illustrated by the release of the new
more powerful, intelligent, and secure NetApp AFF A-Series systems and
the new scalable, efficient, and secure NetApp AFF C-Series systems.
Today, we are making our latest developments in intelligent data
infrastructure more accessible for an even wider range of customers."
Both the AFF A-Series and C-Series systems are powered by NetApp ONTAP®,
delivering simplicity at scale for NetApp customers by leveraging
intelligent data infrastructure to power mission-critical apps, run
general-purpose workloads, and tier data to lower-cost FAS systems all
with the same streamlined operational and protection models.
For many customers, AI journeys begin by modernizing Hadoop and data
lake environments to new object storage systems. New enhancements to
NetApp StorageGRID enable customers to use intelligent data
infrastructure to easily scale and manage their rapidly growing object
workloads. The updated StorageGRID 11.9 software improves scalability
with increased bucket counts and improves flexibility with options for
metadata-only and data-only nodes for increased performance with small
object workloads and mixed-media grids.
Additionally, NetApp is extending the StorageGRID SGF6112 storage
system with support for 60TB capacity flash drives, doubling the density
of object deployments with consummate reductions in the rack space
required and costs for power and cooling.
"Modernizing our data storage onto NetApp AFF C-Series all-flash
systems enabled us to consolidate our datacenters with an 80 percent
reduction in rack space," said Oliver Fuckner, System Engineer, Open
Systems & Backup at Atruvia AG. "The power and efficiency of flash
storage has enabled us to modernize our workloads and more easily
condense the physical space required for our data. NetApp makes it
simple to provide the capacity and power we need to scale our
environments."
"What NetApp has done with its new AFF A-Series systems is make its
enterprise-grade storage capabilities available to businesses of any
size," said Ashish Nadkarni, Group Vice President and General Manager,
Enterprise Infrastructure Research at IDC. "You don't need to be a
Fortune 500 company to access high-performance all-flash storage systems
with advanced data management and protection capabilities. Businesses
can now find a NetApp offering at a price point that meets their
specific needs while benefiting from a single unified data storage
ecosystem to streamline their operations."