NetApp brings ONTAP software, flash systems and expanded public cloud support
NetApp has announced new NetApp ONTAP software, flash systems and expanded public cloud support that provide the modern foundation to help customers maximize the value of their data in the hybrid cloud.
The new offerings are key to helping customers transform their IT. Successful IT transformations integrate data silos, automate processes to speed results and remove barriers to scale that limit growth. The announcement includes:
- An update to NetApp ONTAP 9 software, making the company’s rich data services offering even better with built-in encryption for improved data security, support for massively scalable high-performance NAS containers and simplified provisioning for enterprise applications.
- Six new flash-optimized storage arrays, including the unified all-flash systems and highly scalable hybrid flash arrays, with simpler set-up and serviceability.
- Expanded choice with ONTAP Cloud now supporting the Microsoft Azure public cloud, complementing existing support for the AWS public cloud.
- In addition, NetApp has taken the lead in optimizing the data center for flash with its support of industry-leading connectivity options.
New features in ONTAP 9 include:
NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup is a massively scalable, high-performance NAS container ideal for the latest generation of applications in the EDA, high-tech, oil & gas, and media and entertainment industries. FlexGroup allows customers to scale a single container up to 20PB and 400 billion files.
NetApp Volume Encryption offers granular, volume-level, software-based, encryption for data on any type of drives across AFF, FAS, or ONTAP Select systems without requiring special additional self-encrypting disks.
ONTAP Cloud support for Microsoft Azure. ONTAP Cloud is software-defined storage running in Azure that enables customers to use advanced ONTAP data services to efficiently share, move, protect and manage their cloud data. Customers can now gain greater infrastructure flexibility by integrating Azure cloud services into their enterprise data fabric.
"Simplification is a key enabler for today's digital transformation," said Joel Reich, Executive Vice-President, Products and Operations, NetApp. "NetApp's new ONTAP software and flash systems give customers a way to bridge existing and emerging IT architectures as they build and evolve their hybrid cloud."
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