NetApp Delivers More Efficient, Affordable Enterprise-Grade All-Flash Storage

BERLIN, GERMANY--(Marketwired - Nov 19, 2015) - NetApp Insight Technical Conference - "We have been running NetApp storage in our environment for more than 14 years with zero downtime," said Alexander Harth, head of the User Support Division at Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Germany's national meteorological service. "When it came time to select a flash vendor, we knew that NetApp could deliver more than just speed. We could count on NetApp to deliver the data our customers need, whenever they need it."

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced updates to its All Flash FAS (AFF) array series that drive down the cost of flash for mainstream data center applications and reduce capacity requirements by as much as 30:1¹.

New software efficiency technology and higher capacity drives now make it possible for NetApp customers to get the performance of flash at the price of disk. NetApp also extended its 3X Performance Guarantee, first announced in the United States, to customers in more than 20 Asia Pacific and European countries. The company added select All Flash FlexPod® models to the guarantee program as well.

"The flash market is developing quickly," said Tim Stammers, lead storage analyst at 451 Research. "Performance of flash has always been dramatic versus disk, but enterprise management and lower prices are critical to take flash into mainstream applications."

The NetApp AFF series delivers enterprise-grade benefits that make all-flash systems ready for broad deployment. It is the only all-flash system to support seamless data management across flash, disk and cloud resources. This capability makes AFF arrays ideal for customers who want to boost performance in their traditional data centers while mapping out their move to a hybrid cloud model. 

"VMware and NetApp continue to empower organizations to realize great speed, flexibility and reliability in their virtual environments," said Mark Lohmeyer, vice president, Product Management and Marketing, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware. "NetApp All Flash FAS with VMware vCenter Server enables organizations to quickly automate and centralize control of their virtual infrastructure. Additionally, NetApp flash paired with VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes enables customers to streamline storage operation, while VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness provides a single unified control plane for VMware vSphere storage."