NetApp ONTAP 9 Software Simplifies Transition to Hybrid Cloud, Next-Generation Data Center

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - May 31, 2016) - "NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) technology allows us to be nimble and react quickly to the often volatile changes in the energy sector," said Hercu Rabsatt, director of infrastructure and service management, Mansfield Oil. "NetApp has been a key partner in helping us revolutionize our infrastructure for competitive advantage, tying our technology to our business strategy and remediating areas of risk. We've had zero downtime for our core business applications since moving them to NetApp ONTAP software. We can always service our customers."

NetApp® today announced the NetApp® ONTAP® 9 operating system, a major advance in enterprise data management software that combines new levels of simplicity and flexibility with powerful capabilities and efficiencies. With ONTAP 9 software, enterprises can quickly integrate the best of traditional and emerging technologies, incorporating flash, the cloud and software-defined architectures to build a Data Fabric foundation across on-premises and cloud resources.

Optimized for Flash

ONTAP 9 software is optimized for flash with improved performance and capacity utilization. With this announcement, NetApp becomes the first all-flash array provider to offer customers 15TB solid state drives (SSDs), which are 50 percent larger than the largest hard-disk drives available today. NetApp also announced the FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 program, which includes the industry's only guaranteed efficiency reduction of 4:1. This program makes it simple, cost effective, and low risk for customers to adopt flash.

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-optimized, 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."