Intelligent data infrastructure powered by the
new AFF A-Series with integrated data services turbocharges AI and
simplifies every workload at scale
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
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