New NetApp All-Flash Innovations Improve Data Center Economics
January 31 2017 - 8:00AM
Provider of world’s fastest and most efficient cloud-connected
enterprise storage delivers breakthrough performance with new
all-flash array, announces industry best storage capacity
guarantee
NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) today introduced the industry’s top-performing
enterprise all-flash array and a new efficiency guarantee that give
customers performance without compromise to meet the demands of the
data-powered digital era.
The new NetApp® All Flash FAS (AFF) A700s array delivers
breakthrough performance in a compact form factor to modernize IT
for demanding enterprise applications, analytic workloads and cloud
integration. Customers can dramatically shrink data center
footprint and power and cooling costs due to the extreme flash
density and industry-leading storage efficiencies. NetApp also
announced a new All-Flash Guarantee that ensures up to 5X storage
savings, depending on workload, giving customers confidence they
will achieve the capacity and efficiency that are promised.
“IT transformation is a hot topic for organizations of all sizes
with a goal to put data at the heart of their businesses,” said
Simon Robinson, research vice president at 451 Research. “NetApp’s
new AFF solutions offer any customer, regardless of size, the
ability to deliver data management capabilities for different
environments. Now any company can leverage NetApp’s AFF solutions
to help them adapt to the largest and most disruptive IT shift in
history.”
NetApp AFF A700s: Top of the Class in Performance,
Designed for Cloud and Maximum Efficiency
The AFF A700s is part of the AFF all-flash A-Series, which
includes the A200 entry-level system, A300 midrange system and A700
high-end system. A-Series storage systems offer the industry’s
highest scalable performance with best-in-class data management and
data protection from flash to disk to cloud.
The new model continues NetApp’s track record for innovation,
with an NVMe fabric-ready clustered architecture that runs the
world’s number-one storage operating system, NetApp ONTAP.1 It
supports industry-first inclusion of 15TB SSDs and 32Gb Fibre
Channel and 40Gb Ethernet connectivity options. Leading attributes
of the A700s include:
- Fastest enterprise storage. Based on a new Storage Performance
Council SPC-1 Result,2 the AFF A700s achieved 2,400,059.26 SPC-1
IOPS at an average response time of 0.69 milliseconds. It is the
top-performing enterprise all-flash array among the major storage
providers and in the top three overall on the SPC-1 Performance
list.
- Industry-leading data-center efficiencies. Total cost of
ownership (TCO) is improved through a dense form factor that
reduces power consumption by 11x, rack space by 19x, and support
costs by 67%. Customers can deliver more than 600,000 IOPS
and 1PB of capacity in just 4 rack units.
- Most cloud-connected all-flash array: As with the entire AFF
portfolio, customers can future-proof their infrastructure with an
open solution that connects to public clouds from AWS, Azure, IBM
Cloud and more, while retaining maximum visibility and seamless
data control across cloud and on-premises environments.
The new All-Flash Guarantee provides a workload-specific
efficiency guarantee that scales up to a 5:1 data reduction ratio.
Customers get the storage efficiency and capacity NetApp promises,
or the company will cover the costs to make up the difference. The
guarantee is available for the entire AFF family.
“Decision makers across the enterprise know that all-flash
technology offers the speed and responsiveness needed to quickly
extract value from data,” said Joel Reich, executive vice
president, Products and Operations at NetApp. “NetApp’s new AFF
all-flash arrays provide even stronger proof of how our innovation
accelerates results and dramatically improves data center
economics. With NetApp enterprise storage, IT leaders can be
confident in the performance of their applications, on-premises or
in the cloud, and direct their energies to the strategic projects
that improve customer satisfaction and drive growth.”
Customer Embrace of AFF Innovations Fuels NetApp Growth
in All-Flash MarketThe NetApp AFF series is the ideal
storage array for enterprises of all sizes that need to simplify
and modernize their enterprise data infrastructure. Customer
embrace of the AFF value proposition— performance, simplicity,
future-proofed—has resulted in 10 consecutive quarters of
triple-digit growth for this product line and contributed to NetApp
exceeding $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate for its overall
all-flash business. Industry recognition of NetApp’s all-flash
momentum includes:
- A Leader in the Gartner Solid State Array Magic Quadrant
- Fastest growing all-flash provider, expanding twice as fast,
year over year, as the overall all-flash market3
- Only storage provider that can deliver end-to-end visibility
across a hybrid cloud, thanks to software innovation. NetApp is
tied for number one in revenue share in the Storage and Device
Management Software market4 on the strength of NetApp OnCommand®
Insight software.
Customer and Partner Perspectives
“NetApp’s All Flash FAS systems provide us with a simple and
secure infrastructure to help us continue to evolve our data center
while providing first responders with instant updates when it is
most critical. Our 24-hour analysis captures data from 2,000
weather stations, 17 radar systems, numerous meteorological
satellites, and more than 200 international data sources. NetApp
helps us get critical weather data into the hands of first
responders faster to improve safety and save lives.”- Alexander
Harth, head of User Support Division at DWD, Germany’s national
weather service
“Speed is paramount in business today. Whether it’s delivering
new business applications to employees or new products to
customers, accelerating time to market increases revenues and
enhances customer satisfaction. NetApp’s new AFF systems provide
our clients with a suite of high-performance platforms for
workloads that require agility and performance to support continued
business growth.”- Jason Anderson, chief architect, Datalink, an
Insight company
“To ensure that NetApp AFF arrays deliver the maximum speed and
responsiveness for connecting to mission-critical applications,
organizations need modern storage networks based on Gen 6 Fibre
Channel technology. Brocade’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions enable
NetApp flash environments to operate at 32Gbps performance and
provide unprecedented visibility into virtual machines and storage
I/O performance.”- Jack Rondoni, senior vice president of storage
networking, Brocade
Additional Resources
- Get perspective from our partner Red8 in this blog.
- Hear how AFF helps customer DWD in this video.
- Find out more about the All-Flash Guarantee
program.
- Visit our AFF page.
- Follow NetApp on Twitter.
About NetApp Leading organizations
worldwide count on NetApp for software, systems and services to
manage and store data. We help customers capitalize on the value of
their data in the hybrid cloud through our Data Fabric strategy,
data management expertise, portfolio and ecosystem. To learn more,
visit www.netapp.com.
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Footnotes:
- Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems
Tracker 2016 Q3, December 2016 (Open Networked Enterprise Storage
Systems revenue).
- Source:
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1_active#a02002.
- Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems
Tracker 2016 Q3, December 2016 (Open Networked Enterprise Storage
Systems revenue).
- Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems
Tracker 2016 Q3, December 2016 (Open Networked Enterprise Storage
Systems revenue).
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NetApp
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