2024-11-11 13:11:00
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced updates to its portfolio of enterprise storage offerings, including the new NetApp AFF A-series and AFF C-series systems with unified, all-flash, and affordable midrange solutions for businesses of all sizes and updates to NetApp StorageGRID that increase object storage density and performance.
Today’s dynamic enterprises need an intelligent data strategy to address modern data management challenges such as exponential data growth, multi-cloud complexity, and the need for AI-readiness. Smart data infrastructure is a comprehensive framework that empowers organizations to define and implement a transformative smart data strategy that is secure, agile and future-ready.
With these innovations, customers can now expand their smart data infrastructure using NetApp’s leading data storage systems at more affordable entry points, making it easier to scale up from a smaller starting point or expand your capabilities for remote locations and branch offices. These new systems enable customers to leverage the growing scope of critical workloads such as database and AI applications, or leverage 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 decisions and drives innovation.
NetApp is making storage that powers mission-critical workloads available to all customers by releasing additional models for its AFF A-series storage systems. NetApp offers advanced features including sub-millisecond latency with up to 2.5x better performance than its predecessors, guaranteed storage efficiency, built-in real-time ransomware protection with over 99% accuracy and storage density improved, all at an affordable price.
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 looking to start small and grow or develop deployments in remote locations or branch offices, the AFF A20 starts at a capacity point as low as 15.35 TB. The AFF A30 allows customers to start with a small capacity but scale to more than 1 PB of raw storage. And the AFF A50 delivers twice the performance of its predecessor in a third of the rack space to power commercial and enterprise businesses.
The new NetApp AFF C-series systems are designed to bring more value to general-purpose workloads and the consolidation of workloads into unified file, block, and object storage protocols, delivering maximum density and efficiency with seamless scaling. NetApp AFF C30, C60, and C80 systems make the performance and efficiency gains of flash more affordable for businesses by providing an industry-leading 1.5 PB of storage capacity in two-rack deployments. Customers who modernize their data centers with hybrid flash will experience benefits including up to 95% physical space savings, up to 97% energy savings, and built-in real-time ransomware protection with over 99% accuracy, reducing total cost of property.
“The continued growth of data volumes and increasingly demanding workloads has placed increasing pressure on IT teams of any size to deliver simplicity at scale across all their workloads,” said Sandeep Singh, vice president senior and general manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. “Customers facing these challenges can count on NetApp to deliver continued innovation, exemplified by the launch 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 to an even wider range of customers.”
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 applications, run general-purpose workloads, and layer data for lower-cost FAS systems, all with the same simplified operational and protection models.
For many customers, AI journeys begin with 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. Updated StorageGRID 11.9 software improves scalability with increased number of buckets and increases flexibility with options for metadata-only and data-only nodes to increase performance with small object workloads and mixed media grids.
Additionally, NetApp is expanding the StorageGRID SGF6112 storage system with support for 60 TB capacity flash drives, doubling the density of object deployments with dramatic reductions in required rack space and power and cooling costs.
“Modernizing our data storage to NetApp AFF C-series all-flash systems has allowed us to consolidate our data centers with an 80% reduction in rack space,” said Oliver Fuckner, Systems Engineer, Open Systems and Backup at Atruvia AG. “The power and efficiency of flash storage has allowed us to modernize our workloads and more easily reduce the physical space required for our data. NetApp makes it easy to get the capacity and performance we need to scale our environments.”
“What NetApp has done with its new AFF A-Series systems is make its enterprise-grade storage capabilities accessible to businesses of any size,” said Ashish Nadkarni, Group Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Infrastructure Research at IDC. . “You don’t have to be a Fortune 500 company to access high-performance all-flash storage systems with advanced data management and protection capabilities. Enterprises can now find a NetApp offering priced to meet their specific needs, while benefiting from a unified data storage ecosystem to optimize their operations.”
To learn more about these enhancements and other updates across the NetApp portfolio, visit the product updates.
No ransomware detection or recovery system can completely guarantee security against a ransomware attack. While it is possible for an attack to go undetected, NetApp technology serves as an important additional layer of defense.
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NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, uniting unified data storage, integrated data services and CloudOps solutions to transform a world of disruptions into opportunities for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, leveraging observability and AI to enable industry-leading data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively built into the world’s largest clouds, our data storage offers continuous flexibility. Additionally, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions deliver continuous performance and efficiency optimization through observability and AI. Regardless of the data type, workload or environment, with NetApp, you can transform your data infrastructure to realize the possibilities of your business. Find out more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook e Instagram.
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