SAN JOSE, Calif. - Tuesday, 14. May 2024
Intelligent data
infrastructure powered by the new AFF A-Series with integrated data
services turbocharges AI and simplifies every workload at scale
(BUSINESS
WIRE)--NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure
company, today announced new leading AFF A-Series systems that can power
the most demanding IT workloads customers face, including GenAI,
VMware, and enterprise databases. NetApp also released expanded
capabilities across its portfolio to help customers operate more
efficiently as they leverage their data to drive innovation.
In
the AI era, organizations are feeling pressure to accelerate innovation,
unlock new customer experiences, outsmart cyber threats, and gain ever
greater productivity. Many organizations see AI as a critical tool to
help them achieve those goals. According to the 2024 NetApp Cloud
Complexity report, organizations realize that achieving business success
with AI hinges on two critical factors, data (74%) and IT
infrastructure (71%). With today’s announcements, NetApp is helping
organizations excel at both factors and drive competitive success by
offering innovative intelligent data infrastructure that empowers
customers to unlock the value of their data with AI.
The new
NetApp AFF A-Series systems continue NetApp’s leadership in unified data
storage for the next generation of workloads. Leveraging the same
technology relied upon by the top three public clouds, the NetApp AFF
A-Series eliminates storage silos and storage complexity, providing
powerful, intelligent, and secure storage to accelerate and optimize
every workload. This includes integrated capabilities to optimize VMware
storage costs today and provide unmatched flexibility for the future.
"Data
is undeniably the most valuable asset for any company to outpace its
competitors. Whether it's mission critical applications or leveraging
enterprise data to fuel AI, the data infrastructure a company chooses to
run it on makes all the difference," said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice
President and General Manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. "NetApp's
extensive, unified data storage portfolio, from on-premises to the
public clouds, makes it the go-to solution for enterprises looking to
have the robustness for the most demanding workloads. The introduction
of the new AFF A-Series Systems is a testament to our unwavering
commitment to delivering the most powerful, intelligent, and secure
enterprise storage in the industry."
New AFF A-Series Systems to Accelerate Business Technology Operations
With
the introduction of new, more-powerful AFF A-Series all-flash storage
systems, NetApp is continuing its commitment to innovation with unified
data storage systems designed for any data, any app, and any cloud. The
new AFF A-Series storage systems easily power the most demanding
workloads—from existing mission-critical apps to GenAI workloads that
will drive success into the future.
These new systems are the NetApp AFF A1K, AFF A90, and AFF A70, which can turbo-charge enterprise workloads by delivering:
Up to 2x better performance with unmatched 40 million IOPs, 1 TB/s throughput
Proven 99.9999% data availability
Leading raw-to-effective capacity, including always-on data reduction and 4:1 Storage Efficiency Guarantee
Integrated real-time ransomware detection designed for 99%+ accuracy and Ransomware Recovery Guarantee
NetApp's
unified data storage supports block, file and object storage protocols
and natively integrates with the three largest public cloud providers,
allowing customers to consolidate workloads, lower cost of data, and
operate without silos. Powered by NetApp ONTAP®, these systems deliver
the simplicity and reliability tens of thousands of organizations have
come to expect from NetApp.
“As we’ve ramped up our investments
in AI projects to help accelerate our business, we needed to grow our
data infrastructure to deliver ever greater performance for those
workloads,” Christian Klie, Tribe Cluster Lead at T-Systems. “We rely on
intelligent data infrastructure delivered by NetApp to power our most
critical workloads, and the increased power of the new AFF A-Series
systems, paired with their integrated anti-ransomware features and
hybrid cloud capabilities, will help position us for success now and in
the future.”
“AI is creating the biggest business transformation
opportunity we’ve seen in decades, allowing enterprises to unlock new
sources of value from their data,” said Justin Hotard, Executive Vice
President and general manager, Data Center and AI Group at Intel.
“NetApp AFF A-Series systems utilizing Intel Xeon processors provide the
performance and features to help businesses accelerate their enterprise
AI adoption.”
Providing Powerful, Intelligent and Secure Enterprise Data Infrastructure
To
continue its innovation as the intelligent data infrastructure company,
NetApp released additional capabilities to provide customers with the
advanced data management, industry-leading ransomware protection, and
cloud integration that modern workloads like GenAI demand.
The new features and capabilities in NetApp’s data management and integrated services include:
New StorageGRID Models: NetApp has introduced six new StorageGRID
models that enhance the value of large, unstructured data while reducing
total cost of ownership. StorageGRID can now leverage capacity flash to
provide fast object access times at the lowest cost. Customers can
experience a new level of flexibility, choice, performance, and
sustainability for critical object workloads with new models that offer a
very competitive price per GB, up to a 3X performance increase, 80
percent footprint reduction, and power consumption savings as high as 70
percent.
Cyber Vault Reference Architecture: NetApp announced a
new cyber vault reference architecture that extends the company’s
industry-leading data protection capabilities. Combining the latest
advances in secure data storage, autonomous real-time ransomware
detection, and rapid data restoration, NetApp’s secure and resilient
cyber vault delivers “logically air-gapped” storage based on proven
NetApp ONTAP technology, for unparalleled protection of customer data
against advanced cyber-threats.
SnapMirror Active Sync: The
latest version of ONTAP includes SnapMirror active sync which creates a
symmetric active-active business continuity solution across two data
centers. Coupled with VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) and
enterprise databases from Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft, SnapMirror active
sync enables ongoing business operations with no disruption during a
data center outage.
FlexCache with Writeback: The updated version
of ONTAP also includes FlexCache with Writeback which creates local
copies of data for distributed teams, resulting in reduced latency and
uninterrupted access while reducing administrative overhead. The local
copies can read and write data, granting local teams greater control
while maintaining data consistency with the core data center.
NetApp AIPod with Lenovo: NetApp and Lenovo are collaborating on a new
converged infrastructure solution designed for retrieval-augmented
generation (RAG) and inferencing use cases for GenAI, with Lenovo
high-performance ThinkSystem servers utilizing NVIDIA L40S GPUs, NVIDIA
Spectrum-X networking, and NetApp AFF storage, all validated with the
NVIDIA OVX architecture specification.
BlueXP Classification:
This AI/ML-driven service is now available as a BlueXP core capability
at no additional charge, giving users immediate access to the ability to
automatically classify, categorize, and tag data across the entire data
estate to deepen data intelligence, enhancing efforts in governance,
security, and compliance while enabling strategic workloads such as
GenAI. With BlueXP classification, customers can now fuel GenAI and RAG
innovation through the AIOps ability to securely and programmatically
augment pre-trained models with auto-classified, proprietary data on
demand for enhanced relevancy without sacrificing cost or data security.
“AI
is a massive opportunity for companies to leverage their data in new
ways to unlock competitive advantages,” Ashish Nadkarni, Group Vice
President and General Manager, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and
Technologies and BuyerView Research at IDC. “However, as the AI market
develops, how organizations approach AI may change. They need storage
infrastructure that gives them the flexibility to combine their
on-premises data storage with cloud environments. NetApp’s strategy of
delivering powerful unified data storage that works with any data
protocol, in any environment, to run any workload gives its customers
the power and flexibility they need to face whatever challenges come
their way.”
Join NetApp for a special event on May 14 at 9 AM PT
to learn about its next major advancement in unified data storage, built
for the AI era: https://netapp.com/
Additional Resources
Unified Data Storage for the AI Era
Embrace the AI Era with the New NetApp AFF A-Series Storage Systems
The Leader in Object Storage Just Keeps Getting Better with New StorageGRID Systems and Capacity Flash
NetApp AFF A-Series: High-Performing Unified Storage
ONTAP: Data Management Software for a Better Hybrid Cloud Experience
StorageGRID: Smart, Fast, Future-Proof Object Storage
About NetApp
NetApp
is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data
storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to turn a
world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates
silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability, and AI to enable the
industry’s best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage
service natively embedded in the world’s biggest clouds, our data
storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services
create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance,
and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous
optimization of performance and efficiency through observability and AI.
No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can
transform your data infrastructure to realize your business
possibilities. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn,
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