NetApp has announced the NetApp ONTAP 9 operating system. With the ONTAP 9 software, enterprises can integrate traditional and emerging technologies, incorporating flash, the cloud and software-defined architectures to build a data fabric foundation across on-premises and cloud resources.
Optimised for flash
ONTAP 9 software is optimised for flash with improved performance and capacity utilisation. With this announcement, NetApp becomes the first all-flash array provider to offer customers 15TB solid state drives (SSDs) which are 50% larger than the largest hard-disk drives available today. NetApp also announced the FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 programme, which includes the industry’s only guaranteed efficiency reduction of 4:1.
New inline data compaction enables more data to fit in a smaller footprint and brings down the cost of flash beyond traditional compression and deduplication. This capability increases efficiency and makes NetApp all-flash systems extremely cost-effective compared to hard disk drive-based systems.
“As effective flash dollar-per-GB costs drop, flash deployment in the enterprise is accelerating,” said Eric Burgener, Research Director for IDC’s storage practice. “NetApp’s release of the industry’s first 15TB flash drive, combined with new storage efficiency technology features in ONTAP 9, continues to drive that cost down in a flash optimised, enterprise-class storage platform that is well suited for the type of dense mixed workload consolidation that customers are increasingly looking to their trusted suppliers to deliver.”
ONTAP 9 benefits include:
· Simplicity—Easy to set-up and manage, ONTAP 9 can be deployed and serving data for critical workloads in as few as 10 minutes. Also, with enhanced system monitoring, enterprises can use it to centrally manage performance, capacity and data protection across their IT environment.
· Flexibility—The ONTAP 9 software is the ideal platform for workload consolidation. The platform offers common data services across general purpose server hardware deployments as software defined storage (SDS) in addition to NetApp engineered systems, converged infrastructure, third-party arrays, next-to-the-cloud systems, and the cloud.
· Security—Customers can achieve up to 100 times greater security against drive failures and meet stringent data retention policies with new triple-parity RAID protection and expanded storage encryption and compliance features.
“Customers struggling to add flash and cloud capabilities see ONTAP 9 as a powerful consolidation stress reliever that can be deployed with fewer skilled IT resources,” said Lee Caswell, VP, Product, Solutions and Services Marketing at NetApp.
“ONTAP 9 delivers real economic value that reduces the cost of flash, introduces a cost-effective software consumption model, and standardises data management across disk, flash and cloud resources. With ONTAP 9, we are helping customers and partners convert our featured innovations to business value.”
Interested?
ONTAP 9 is designed for general on-premises enterprise use, ONTAP Cloud (formerly NetApp Cloud ONTAP) delivers enterprise-class data management in the cloud, while the new ONTAP Select offers a software-only data management solution.
Optimised for flash
ONTAP 9 software is optimised for flash with improved performance and capacity utilisation. With this announcement, NetApp becomes the first all-flash array provider to offer customers 15TB solid state drives (SSDs) which are 50% larger than the largest hard-disk drives available today. NetApp also announced the FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 programme, which includes the industry’s only guaranteed efficiency reduction of 4:1.
New inline data compaction enables more data to fit in a smaller footprint and brings down the cost of flash beyond traditional compression and deduplication. This capability increases efficiency and makes NetApp all-flash systems extremely cost-effective compared to hard disk drive-based systems.
“As effective flash dollar-per-GB costs drop, flash deployment in the enterprise is accelerating,” said Eric Burgener, Research Director for IDC’s storage practice. “NetApp’s release of the industry’s first 15TB flash drive, combined with new storage efficiency technology features in ONTAP 9, continues to drive that cost down in a flash optimised, enterprise-class storage platform that is well suited for the type of dense mixed workload consolidation that customers are increasingly looking to their trusted suppliers to deliver.”
ONTAP 9 benefits include:
· Simplicity—Easy to set-up and manage, ONTAP 9 can be deployed and serving data for critical workloads in as few as 10 minutes. Also, with enhanced system monitoring, enterprises can use it to centrally manage performance, capacity and data protection across their IT environment.
· Flexibility—The ONTAP 9 software is the ideal platform for workload consolidation. The platform offers common data services across general purpose server hardware deployments as software defined storage (SDS) in addition to NetApp engineered systems, converged infrastructure, third-party arrays, next-to-the-cloud systems, and the cloud.
· Security—Customers can achieve up to 100 times greater security against drive failures and meet stringent data retention policies with new triple-parity RAID protection and expanded storage encryption and compliance features.
“Customers struggling to add flash and cloud capabilities see ONTAP 9 as a powerful consolidation stress reliever that can be deployed with fewer skilled IT resources,” said Lee Caswell, VP, Product, Solutions and Services Marketing at NetApp.
“ONTAP 9 delivers real economic value that reduces the cost of flash, introduces a cost-effective software consumption model, and standardises data management across disk, flash and cloud resources. With ONTAP 9, we are helping customers and partners convert our featured innovations to business value.”
Interested?
ONTAP 9 is designed for general on-premises enterprise use, ONTAP Cloud (formerly NetApp Cloud ONTAP) delivers enterprise-class data management in the cloud, while the new ONTAP Select offers a software-only data management solution.
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