NetApp Unleashes Its Most Powerful Unified Storage System, Accelerating Enterprise Applications to Extreme Performance
June 17 2014 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
NetApp Unleashes Its Most Powerful Unified Storage System,
Accelerating Enterprise Applications to Extreme Performance
New High-End Hybrid Storage System FAS8080 EX Shrinks Response
Times for the Largest Datasets; New Entry-Level FAS2500 Extends
Performance and Value Leadership
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 17, 2014) - NetApp, Inc.
(NASDAQ: NTAP)
George Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Operations,
NetApp "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 system1, 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."
News Summary
With more global organizations transforming IT operations to keep
pace with evolving business requirements, NetApp has steadily
enhanced its comprehensive system and software portfolio to provide
the flexibility and choice required for current and future
enterprise application environments. Today, NetApp introduced two
new storage system platforms -- the extreme-performance FAS8080 EX
and the entry value-priced FAS2500. With the FAS8080 EX, growing
organizations and service providers can confidently drive the
performance-intensive SAN and NAS workloads at the largest scale.
The new entry-level NetApp® FAS2500 hybrid arrays can simplify
operations, increase productivity through superior integration with
ecosystems, extend system life, and minimize future costs.
Technology News in
Depth
- Extreme performance and scale with the NetApp FAS8080 EX:
NetApp's most powerful, patented scale-out array ever, FAS8080
EX is purpose-built for the most demanding business-critical
applications. The resilient FAS8080 EX scales to ~4 million
IOPS of performance and offers advanced quality-of-service
capabilities to enable predictable performance that meets or
exceeds challenging service-level objectives. For high-speed,
low-latency applications, the FAS8080 EX can be configured
either as an all-flash array with > 4.6PB (petabytes)
of flash storage or as a hybrid array with an industry-leading
flash cache of nearly half a petabyte. Additionally, the
FAS8080 EX dynamically responds to growing data requirements
with seamless scaling to nearly 70PB of capacity and more than
600 I/O connections, which are critical for service providers
and large organizations that are consolidating workloads.
- Superior price/performance with NetApp FAS2500: Setting a new
standard for value, the FAS2500 offers expanded flash support to
accelerate workloads by up to 46% and increase usable capacity by
48%2. With enterprise-class data management capabilities, the
FAS2500 harnesses the power of its patented NetApp Data ONTAP®
storage operating system to simplify data management across the
entire enterprise IT environment -- from the local office to the
datacenter to the cloud. Organizations can scale operations
seamlessly as their needs evolve. In addition, customers can better
manage acquisition costs while mitigating risk of disruption to
business operations. Customers can also reduce setup time and
eliminate repetitive operations with software management
capabilities that automate tasks with the click of a button.
- All-Flash FAS configurations that combine hardware
performance with software intelligence: NetApp maximizes the value
of flash across the entire compute, network, and storage stack with
the industry's most comprehensive flash portfolio, improving
efficiency and accelerating business-critical application
performance. For customers who need the high performance and low
latency of flash along with the enterprise reliability and
extensive data management capabilities of Data ONTAP software,
all-flash configurations of the FAS8000 are available. For example,
all-flash configurations of the FAS8080 EX and FAS8060 provide an
ideal solution for VDI deployments with high-IOPS and low-latency
requirements, and for business critical application database
workloads. A new NetApp All-Flash FAS Reference Architecture for
VDI -- that delivers high performance and low cost per desktop --
is now available. By offering a broad portfolio that includes both
hybrid and all-flash storage offerings, NetApp is enabling IT
organizations to optimize the level of performance, efficiency, and
scalability to meet their specific needs. NetApp sold 18PB of flash
in FY14 Q4, with 93PB of flash storage to date.
- Business critical application support: The complete
FAS unified scale-out storage system portfolio is designed to
support the most demanding enterprise application workloads.
The FAS unified scale-out architecture enables organizations
to adapt quickly to changing business needs, while delivering
on core IT requirements for uptime, scalability, and
cost-efficiency. Enterprise applications, including those from
VMware, Oracle, Microsoft, Citrix, and SAP, run fast,
efficiently and reliably on NetApp. Our hybrid architecture,
combined with our patented storage clustering technology,
maximizes uptime and delivers low-latency performance to
enable predictable application performance.
- NetApp Services for OnCommand® Insight: For
enterprises and service providers who are required to manage
their virtualized and cloud environments, OnCommand Insight
provides a patented solution that enables storage cost
management, rationalization, and optimization of storage services.
NetApp Services for OnCommand Insight is a tailored service
offering for customers who deploy high-end FAS8000 systems
across heterogeneous datacenters. This comprehensive,
customized service offering leverages NetApp resources, tools,
and best practices to construct IT analytics with relevant
dashboards and reporting capabilities that are aligned to
a customer's particular business parameters. Customers quickly
achieve the business value they need to more effectively and
self-sufficiently manage their physical, virtualized, and
cloud environments.
Newest Storage Systems Offer a 90-Day Payment Holiday NetApp is
offering a 90 day payment holiday allowing customers to save while
transitioning to the newest NetApp enterprise storage
solutions.
Additional Industry Perspective George Kurian, Executive Vice
President, Product Operations, NetApp
- Watch NetApp Executive Vice President George Kurian
discuss how NetApp's most powerful unified storage
system accelerates enterprise applications to extreme
performance
Supporting Quotes:
Customers
- Eric Tuley, Director of IS Operations, Arbitration Forums,
Inc. "With Arbitration Forum's escalating business growth, IT has
strict service level objectives to meet our growing membership's
uptime requirements. By choosing clustered Data ONTAP management
framework, we have not only exceeded requirements but extended the
benefits of performance, deduplication, simplified management, and
integrated data protection across our NetApp and third party
arrays. We have easily integrated NetApp technology and our
organization's extensive VMware environment as well as preserved
close to $2 million in existing storage."
- Gary Trible, Manager of IT Infrastructure, Accuride
"Accuride has improved service levels and time to market by
virtualizing business-critical applications on Cisco and NetApp
FlexPod infrastructure. Applications such as Microsoft Exchange
Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SharePoint are
business-critical to our company. We use them constantly to
communicate with our suppliers and collaborate internally. Any
unplanned downtime comes at a cost, but luckily that doesn't happen
with NetApp."
- Pat Cimprich, Vice President and Global Infrastructure
Services Chief Architect, Avanade "Our private cloud supports our
24/7 consulting work developing business-critical solutions, so any
downtime comes at a great cost to not only Avanade but also our
customers. With clustered Data ONTAP, we are able to scale
business-critical customer workloads for capacity and performance
as well as collaborate with the confidence that our environment
will remain nondisruptive. We've improved time to market for
consulting projects and improved business agility."
- Tony Beaird, Manager of Server, Storage and IT Security
Infrastructures, DuPage Medical Group "We depend on NetApp storage
for the management and delivery of our business-critical
applications, including electronic medical records and medical
images. Cisco and NetApp FlexPod infrastructure helps our doctors
and clinicians access data and images anytime from anywhere. And,
clustered Data ONTAP helps us avoid any service interruption,
whether hardware failure or OS patching, by allowing us to roll our
environment between nodes without downtime. This type of
infrastructure is necessary in healthcare where time and
accessibility is essential for successful patient care."
- Matthew Leeds, Vice President of Operations, Gracenote
"The number of queries to our global media database has grown from
10 million daily queries in the early years to now more than 500
million. This type of growth demands a reliable storage
infrastructure with no corruption, downtime, loss of data or
availability. NetApp FAS storage systems offer consistent reliable
technology that is always ahead of our needs. In 12 years, we've
never had to make a platform change, and that's been of
immeasurable value to us."
- Severin Canisius, Senior IT Manager, Jack Wolfskin "With
our private cloud infrastructure based on NetApp storage and
Microsoft, Jack Wolfskin was able to expand internationally into
new markets without increasing our IT budget or IT staffing levels.
Our infrastructure now supports non-stop operations critical to the
growth and success of the business. Since the implementation, we
doubled the number of retail outlets worldwide, experienced 20%
year-over-year growth, and increased annual shipments by 86%."
- Aleksandar Milosavljević, Chief Technical Officer,
Mainstream "Since 2008, NetApp has helped Mainstream start small
and grow our storage and feature set. We are now the largest
provider of web hosting services in Serbia today, hosting 8 out of
the 10 most popular websites/portals in the country, providing 24x7
support with guaranteed availability at 99.99% per month. NetApp
FAS storage systems and Flash technologies have helped us meet any
challenge -- whether it's growth, capacity, performance, or
redundancy. We don't have to think whether we can maybe do
something, we simply do with NetApp."
- Casey Jones, Chief Technology Officer, Quasar Data Center
"With NetApp's FAS storage systems running clustered Data ONTAP and
NetApp Flash technology, we are able to stay competitive in the
fast changing world of cloud computing. NetApp allows us to scale
our storage and upgrade our IT environment without any downtime,
which becomes critical to our success as we grow our customer base
and offer higher service-level objectives. Other benefits including
reduced storage management requirements and latency of up to 80%
increases our staff productivity."
- Don O'Connor, Senior Vice President, Technology Operations
Division Manager, Union Bank "The ability to service and expand our
storage infrastructure without downtime is essential to the
business-critical nature of Union Bank's e-commerce applications.
Therefore, we chose Cisco and NetApp FlexPod infrastructure to
reduce risk and increase IT efficiency, supporting our private
cloud and allowing us to scale. And with clustered Data ONTAP, we
can perform upgrades and load balance for capacity and performance
in a nondisruptive manner."
Alliance Technology Partners
- Sameer Dholakia, Group Vice President and General Manager,
Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix "The Citrix and NetApp relationship
has evolved to continue providing our joint customers with
solutions for some of the most demanding enterprise application
workloads. The new NetApp FAS storage systems will continue to be a
key component for customers using Citrix mobile workspace
technologies, such as CloudPlatform, XenDesktop, and
ShareFile."
- Bev Crair, General Manager, Storage Division, Intel Corporation
"Intel and NetApp are providing innovative solutions that power
scalable and intelligent data infrastructures. With today's
announcement, NetApp leverages the power of the Intel Xeon
Processors to provide data infrastructure spanning from their
extreme performance FAS8080 EX to their entry value priced
FAS2500. The combination of NetApp's storage systems based on
Intel architecture provides the agility needed for businesses to
manage the ever-challenging demands of data growth."
- Sanjay Katyal, Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances
and OEMs, VMware "VMware shares a common vision with NetApp to
accelerate customers' path to the cloud and deliver IT as a
service. Our partnership continues to evolve to enable customers to
derive maximum value within the cloud. NetApp's new FAS storage
systems, coupled with VMware solutions for end-user computing and
the software-defined datacenter, will continue to help customers
adapt quickly to changing business needs as they accelerate their
cloud transition."
Additional Resources:
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website.
About NetApp NetApp creates innovative storage and data
management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and
accelerate business breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our
core values and consistently being recognized as a great place to
work around the world are fundamental to our long-term growth and
success, as well as the success of our pathway partners and
customers. Discover our passion for helping companies around the
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1 Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker
2013 Q4, March 2014 (based on 2013 revenue) 2 Source: ESG Lab
Validation Report, NetApp FAS2200 Series with Flash Pool, November
2013
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