One-Year Anniversary: NetApp SolidFire Redefines Data Center Infrastructure
February 02 2017 - 8:00AM
One year ago today, NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) closed its acquisition of
SolidFire, fueling the advance of the next-generation data center
that is transforming IT for enterprises and services providers.
NetApp® SolidFire® solutions deliver data center infrastructure
that operates with the flexibility and speed of the cloud.
Customers can reduce cost and complexity by safely consolidating
mission-critical applications onto a single storage system.
Innovations in software enable massive scalability with no
disruptions and provide guaranteed performance to every
application.
Customers also benefit from NetApp SolidFire innovation in
licensing models. The FlashForward Capacity Licensing model is
flexible, perpetual and predictable. Customers can buy hardware and
software separately so they get what they need, when they need it.
Perpetual and transferable licenses decouple software from hardware
upgrades, repurposing or consolidation. Licenses are transferrable
and not locked to particular hardware, enabling users to upgrade or
replace hardware at any time. Built-in, usage-based discounts
ensure software and support costs decline as provisioned capacity
increases.
“With much of the hard integration work behind us, the NetApp
SolidFire team is now fully focused on delivering the next
generation of transformative data management solutions across the
entire spectrum of infrastructure consumption,” said NetApp
SolidFire Vice President and General Manager Dave Wright. “With the
full resources of NetApp behind us, you’ll want to keep an eye on
NetApp SolidFire this year as we deliver new solutions that enable
our customers to transform their data center operations, deliver IT
services efficiently and economically, and capitalize on new market
opportunities.”
Over the past year, the SolidFire business has contributed to
NetApp being named a Leader in the Gartner Solid State Array Magic
Quadrant. The company is also the fastest growing all-flash
provider, expanding twice as fast, year over year, as the overall
all-flash market1.
Customers Transform Operations Quickly and Efficiently
with NetApp SolidFire
With SolidFire all-flash arrays, customers can adapt, move,
scale and transform their operations much more quickly and
efficiently, thanks to its “shared nothing” architecture. This
approach eliminates the need to create siloes of infrastructure for
each workload. Individual nodes within the SolidFire distributed
storage network manage the data, redundancy and recovery in a
self-healing manner. Organizations can automate storage
infrastructure to keep operational costs low, providing an ideal
environment for OpenStack, VMware, VDI, database, DevOps and
service provider deployments.
Customers driving data center transformation with SolidFire
solutions include:
- Carrenza, a global cloud service company based in London,
needed a new approach to meet rapidly evolving customer application
and Infrastructure demands. The company chose SolidFire to increase
infrastructure agility and responsiveness, while reducing storage
maintenance time and administration effort. Its customers can now
scale storage resources without up-front capital expenses.
- FICO, a leader in intelligent analytics and software tools that
improve business decision making, relies on NetApp SolidFire’s
integration with OpenStack and VMware and on its guarantee of exact
levels of performance and capacity to meet service-level agreements
for its FICO Analytic Cloud clients. The FICO Analytic Cloud gives
businesses the ability to create and deploy data analytics
applications up to 70% faster.
- Internet Solutions (IS), a converged communications service
provider, operates in 14 countries across Africa, with
international offices worldwide. With NetApp SolidFire, IS became
the first service provider to offer performance-based tiering
services in Africa, a major differentiator for the company,
enabling it to meet increasingly complex customer demands.
- Premier Eye Care, a healthcare provider based in Tampa, FL,
manages routine vision care, medical and surgical eye care
services, and administrative services for its partner health plans.
It implemented a NetApp SolidFire all-flash storage system for its
Microsoft SQL database workloads to solve major challenges with
backup and recovery, latency, and reporting. In doing so, Premier
Eye Care reduced its backup and recovery time from up to 9 hours to
just 7 minutes.
Additional Resources
- Read the blog from NetApp SolidFire VP & GM Dave
Wright.
- Get information on NetApp SolidFire offerings.
- Follow NetApp SolidFire 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.© 2017 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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- Source: IDC, Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems
Tracker - 2016Q3, December 1, 2016
Press Contact:
Amelia Vierra
NetApp
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