The latest evolution of its all-flash array portfolio
NetApp has unveiled the latest evolution of its all-flash storage system array portfolio with the NetApp AFF A900, powered by NetApp ONTAP Enterprise Edition.
“As the value of critical business applications and massive enterprise data management workloads continue to rise over the next few years, enterprises will demand performance, security, and the operational simplicity to move and scale those workloads to their preferred cloud of choice with ease,” said Eric Burgener, Research Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure at IDC. “Products like NetApp’s AFF A900 and ONTAP Enterprise allow organisations to reliably and securely run their most advanced business apps and databases on-premises, or easily scale to any cloud.”
The NetApp AFF A900 includes the following new capabilities:
- The AFF A900 delivers an enhanced user experience for managing organisations’ most important enterprise databases like Oracle, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, and virtualised applications. Touting extremely low latency around 100μs, the AFF A900 increases performance by up to 50 percent over previous models (AFF A700 with like protocols).
- Enterprises can take advantage of modern network connectivity without new hardware investments in networking infrastructure with first-to-market enterprise-grade NVMe/TCP in addition to NVMe/FC. Organisations can also scale and grow with unified multi-protocol support for SAN, NAS and Object storage, delivering maximum flexibility for enterprise storage needs while increasing reliability and reducing performance tuning and support costs.
- Best-in-Class Data Security – With the ONTAP Enterprise Edition and the new Anti-Ransomware Suite, organisations have built-in data protection and cutting-edge anti-ransomware solutions for both pre-emption and post-attack recovery to prevent against catastrophic data loss and economic costs.
- Simplified Non-Disruptive Upgrades – The AFF A900 is available as a non-disruptive in-chassis upgrade to existing A700 customers, simplifying the refresh and eliminating disruptions to mission-critical operations with advanced reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities. Additionally, ONTAP software automatically applies firmware updates to increase operational efficiency and simplify day-to-day activities for IT teams. And NetApp Keystone’s support for the AFF A900 provides companies operational and financial flexibility to consume storage and data services in the model that best suits the needs of the business.
“Enterprises running their business applications and databases on-premises demand the highest performance storage systems with the most secure data availability,” said Praveena Vajja, Vice President, ONTAP at NetApp. “With the AFF A900 and ONTAP Enterprise Edition, these enterprises can leverage NetApp’s leading hybrid multi-cloud solutions to meet the needs of their business and scale their data and management to any public cloud simply and efficiently.”
