NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced the release of new NetApp ASA A-Series storage systems, all-flash optimized for block storage, enabling storage modernization for any organization. With these new systems and the continued advancements of NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure, NetApp customers no longer have to compromise between operational simplicity, high-end capabilities, and low-cost storage.
The new all-flash NetApp ASA A-Series systems deliver three key benefits to help customers manage modern block storage workloads:
- Simplicity : The storage solution is so simple that any customer can deploy, manage and upgrade it. Deployment takes minutes and provisioning takes seconds, making deployment of the ASA system quick and hassle-free, and day-to-day management is easy with just a few steps thanks to built-in AIOps and tight VMware integration.
- Power : The new systems enable IT teams to accelerate VMware and database applications with market-leading performance, proven reliability, and intelligent data management. The ASA A-Series delivers ample performance and efficiency, from millions of IOPs to consistent sub-millisecond latency. With advanced features like scale-out clustering, seamless workload balancing, “6 9s” guarantee, NetApp ransomware recovery guarantee, and application-aware backup, users get market-leading storage to power and consolidate block workloads.
- Affordable : Unmatched value with 25-50% lower upfront costs and improved return on investment over the long term. This pricing allows users to address budget constraints while modernizing to simple, powerful, industry-leading all-flash storage with high storage efficiency right out of the box. Low power consumption also delivers additional savings, and low operational overhead reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) over time.
To support the new ASA A-Series, NetApp has enhanced its Data Infrastructure Insight service (formerly Cloud Insights) to improve monitoring and analytics for the ASA platform. These updates help customers better manage the visibility, optimization and reliability of their data infrastructure to reduce costs and improve performance.
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“With the new NetApp ASA A-Series systems, customers no longer have to choose between operational simplicity and high-end functionality, but can modernize their operations to meet the higher workload requirements on block storage,” said Sandeep Singh, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage, NetApp. “Affordable operational simplicity allows customers to take advantage of powerful storage systems while freeing up the time and resources to drive innovation across their business.”
Continued investment in intelligent data infrastructure
In addition to the ASA A-Series, NetApp is driving advancements in intelligent data infrastructure with several new enhancements to the portfolio, including:
- New FAS Systems : NetApp has added new FAS 70 midrange and FAS 90 high-end FAS systems to its portfolio of hybrid flash storage arrays. NetApp FAS is ideal for lowering the cost of data over its lifecycle by automatically tiering cold data. These systems provide affordable, high-performance backup storage and a highly secure cyber vault when recovering from ransomware attacks.
- Updates to Cloud Volumes ONTAP® : NetApp’s ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) and WORM are available at no extra charge with Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO). NetApp customers’ CVO licenses include ONTAP’s industry-leading cybersecurity capabilities with no additional licensing required, strengthening IT teams’ ability to combat ransomware attacks.
- Enhancements to native cloud services : New capabilities are generally available for two of NetApp’s native cloud storage services, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and Azure NetApp Files. For Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Premium and Extreme service tiers can now provision large volumes starting at 15 TiB and dynamically scale up to 1 PiB in 1 GiB increments. In addition, Google Cloud customers can realize cost savings through auto-tiering, which efficiently moves infrequently accessed data to lower-cost storage service tiers. Azure NetApp Files has new features for cost-effective pricing and enhanced reliability. Azure customers can realize cost savings through cool access auto-tiering, which efficiently moves infrequently accessed data to lower-cost storage services. In addition, users can increase data availability with cross-zone replication and can also enhance data protection by replicating volumes across Azure availability zones.
- New Features in BlueXP : NetApp has released new features and updates to BlueXP to make unified management in a hybrid multicloud world simpler for IT. The latest software updates for BlueXP streamline the ONTAP upgrade process with a service that identifies potential candidates, validates compatibility, reports recommendations and benefits, and allows selective updates through an intuitive wizard.
“What sets NetApp apart is not only the strength of its storage systems, as demonstrated by the new ASA A-Series, but also its comprehensive portfolio of solutions that support data operations both on-premises and in the cloud,” said Simon Robinson, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Tech Target. “The definition of value is changing for IT customers; it’s no longer about price or performance, but both. Organizations are running increasingly advanced workloads and they need to do so with budgets that can be sustained over the long term. By delivering great performance, affordable TCO, and in a surprisingly simple package for block storage workloads, the ASA A-Series is providing NetApp with the tools they need to succeed in the age of data and intelligence.”
SOURCE: BusinessWire