NetApp announces new portfolio of storage programs and flash storage for data centers

Knowledge storage firm NetApp Inc. in the present day introduced a brand new portfolio of storage applications and a line of flash storage for contemporary information facilities.

The brand new portfolio of storage applications, NetApp Advance, has been designed to assist clients cost-effectively future-proof on-premises environments. The service is alleged to evolve the storage lifecycle by permitting organizations to keep away from complicated, pricey and time-consuming refresh cycles. By enabling ongoing, nondisruptive {hardware} upgrades, NetApp Advance ensures environment friendly, safe and sustainable storage with new ensures to fulfill the wants of organizations.

NetApp Advance helps remove complicated, time-consuming and expensive improve cycles whereas staying present with expertise improvements. Customers can select on-premises or cloud storage choices to future-proof environments to scale up securely, seamlessly and nondisruptively as they develop, the corporate says.

Advance additionally gives cyber resilience, sustainability and effectivity greatest practices and capabilities that regularly enhance power effectivity and operational efficiency. Together with lowering an organization’s carbon footprint, the product assists in stopping ransomware occasions whereas additionally delivering experience to get better information rapidly and securely ought to a ransomware assault happen, NetApp says.

As a part of NetApp Advance, NetApp has additionally launched the brand new NetApp Storage Lifecycle Program. This system gives no further price and nondisruptive upgrades to the newest storage controller expertise each three, 4, or 5 years.

Customers have the choice to improve controllers at solely incremental price earlier than their three-year renewal. An non-compulsory capability refresh additionally permits clients to switch lower-capacity drives as a part of a storage refresh, which means they by no means have to purchase the identical capability twice and may obtain a extra environment friendly and sustainable information heart footprint.

Flash storage

On the flash storage facet, NetApp introduced the AFF C-Collection household of all-flash QLC-based storage choices and NetApp AFF A150, a brand new entry-level storage system within the AFF A-Collection household of all-flash techniques.

The brand new NetApp AFF C-Collection delivers high-capacity flash efficiency whereas remaining cost-effective and environment friendly for a decrease whole price of possession and a smaller storage footprint. Prospects can modernize their information facilities with the flexibility to decide on the fitting storage — efficiency flash, capability flash or hybrid — for his or her workload and database necessities, all operating on NetApp ONTAP and managed centrally by NetApp BlueXP.

The NetApp AFF C-Collection, which is comprised of the AFF C250, AFF C400 and AFF C800, gives assured storage effectivity to enhance a corporation’s storage footprint and power prices to cut back whole price of possession whereas simplifying operations. The vary supplies scalability on-premises, permitting organizations to scale capability and efficiency as their information grows and information safety with ransomware safety.

The brand new NetApp AFF A150, which has been designed with distant work in thoughts, permits distributed deployments to raised meet the wants of shoppers who require entry-level, enterprise-class storage. Advantages embody higher efficiency, scalability, enlargement choices and excessive availability with assist for MetroCluster IP, in line with the corporate.

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