In a move to consolidate its leadership in the Enterprise Storage market in India, NetApp has announced the availability of the EF540 all-flash array, for performance-driven enterprise applications and its FAS/V6200 Family for Superior Performance, Availability, and Scale for the Enterprise. It also previewed the architecture of its new, purpose-built FlashRay product family, which will deliver rich scale-out and storage efficiency features to maximize the benefits of all-flash arrays. The new product introductions extend the comprehensive NetApp enterprise flash portfolio, which maximizes the value of flash across the entire computer network and storage stack, enabling the flexibility to choose the best approach to unique workloads.
With the flash portfolio in the industry, and a complete line of products, including intelligent caching technologies like Flash Cache, Flash Pool, and Flash Accel, the new EF540 flash array and the forthcoming FlashRay family provide flexibility and choice, and maximize the value of flash across the entire computer network and storage stack. NetApp has deployed more than 36PB of flash in the market to date.
The three new platforms within FAS6200 storage systems family, which NetApp is announcing - FAS6220, FAS6250, and FAS6290, comes with an increased performance for the most stringent workloads. Enterprises can perform faster and operations can run more efficiently on new high-end, flash-optimized storage systems. With this announcement, NetApp strengthens its enterprise performance for both SAN and NAS.
“Flash technology in storage has greatly increased the business efficiency by transforming the speed with which businesses function. Flash changes everything- applications go faster and are more responsive, business operations finish sooner and the IT efficiency increases. We at NetApp are constantly innovating in the field of flash owing to the business benefits that accrue to our customers”, said Anil Valluri, President - India & SAARC Operations, NetApp Marketing & Services Pvt. Ltd.
The NetApp EF540 flash array and FAS/V6200 product series is available now. The FlashRay product line will be generally available early in 2014.
