The data infrastructure and storage company NetApp has announced new storage offerings at varying prices, including ones at more accessible price points for smaller organizations.
New models in the AFF A-Series of data storage solutions include A20, A30, and A50, and these offer sub-millisecond latency and a 2.5x improvement over previous versions. The A20 starts at a capacity point of 15.35TB, which NetApp says is the lowest in the industry for flash storage. It recommends the A50 as ideal for midrange deployments.
These new AFF A-Series models provide the performance needed to scale VM, database, AI, and file environment workloads. They also utilize the NetApp ONTAP data management software.
The AFF C-Series of flash storage solutions also got new models: C30, C60, and C80. These models are designed for general purpose workloads and offer “maximum density and efficiency with seamless scaling.”
According to NetApp, when switching from a hybrid flash to an all flash model, customers can save 99% on floor space, 97% on power, and see better performance.
Similar to the AFF A-Series, the C-Series also offer low capacity starting points that are the best in the market, NetApp said.
And finally, the company is also expanding its StorageGRID SGF6112 system to support 60TB flash drives, which will enable customers to double the density of object deployments while at the same time reducing rack space and costs.
“The unrelenting growth of data volumes and increasingly demanding workloads have put increasing pressure on IT teams of any size to provide simplicity at scale for all their workloads,” said Sandeep Singh, senior vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at NetApp. “Customers facing those challenges can rely on NetApp to deliver continuous innovation, illustrated by the release of the new more powerful, intelligent, and secure NetApp AFF A-Series systems and the new scalable, efficient, and secure NetApp AFF C-Series systems. Today, we are making our latest developments in intelligent data infrastructure more accessible for an even wider range of customers.”
