New NetApp mid-tier storage platform accelerates expansion of business operations

China, Beijing, November 6, 2012 NetApp (NASDAQ Stock Code: NTAP) Recently updated the company's FAS midrange storage system, launched FAS3220 and FAS3250, and sought to balance the current data infrastructure status with future growth commitments. The new system integrates industry-class performance, capacity expansion, and value, laying the foundation for faster business development.

The new FAS storage System is designed for strict SAN and NAS environments. Compared to existing mid-tier products, large and midsize enterprises leverage this product to consolidate operations into a shared storage platform, increasing performance and storage capacity by up to 80% and 100%, respectively. This system supports high speed, low latency flash, and industry-leading non-disruptive operations, providing the organization with the necessary foundation for a scalable, scalable, and highly-sensitive data infrastructure.

FAS3220

"Despite the economic uncertainty, most companies continue to invest heavily in the purchase of technology leaders ' products that have the flexibility to save costs in their IT infrastructure," said Brendon Howe, vice president of NETAPP product and solutions marketing. NETAPP's new unified midrange offerings are optimized for mission-critical SAN and NAS environments and leverage technologies such as flash and cluster Data ONTAP to meet today's performance and capacity requirements, as well as non-disruptive operations, with scalable designs that meet future requirements. ”

With NETAPP SAN solutions, organizations can increase storage utilization by one time, halve storage costs, and increase productivity across the enterprise while achieving high performance and high availability. NetApp's award-winning FC SAN solution shows industry-leading performance in cluster storage, and customers using NetApp SAN technology can increase storage efficiencies by up to 50% or more with reduced configuration and data deduplication.

Powerful and affordable midrange systems provide scalability and efficiency to the enterprise

The FAS3200 series platform is extremely flexible and can be customized for virtualization, private cloud, or traditional environments where only a few terabytes to 2 PB of storage are needed in a single system. Once integrated into a cluster, the FAS infrastructure extends performance and capacity across 24 storage nodes. Once integrated into a cluster, this architecture enables non-disruptive operation by supporting transparent upgrades, system replacements, and performance balancing while dramatically improving performance and capacity expansion.

Cluster data ONTAP enables high-availability storage platforms, such as FAS3220 and FAS3250, to run as a shared resource pool, further enhancing the NETAPP industry's leading Data ONTAP storage operating system capabilities. This feature provides large-scale scaling and performance excellence, simplifies management, and enables transparent migration of application data. The data ONTAP is a leading storage operating system that provides protection, super scalability, thin configuration, data de-duplication, compact cloning, snapshots, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities in a rich data management platform.

To simplify expansion and support system customization, the new system has increased the number of PCIe expansion slots to three times times, and can be used to support network cards, flash cards, and additional storage connections.

Like all FAS systems, FAS3220 and FAS3250 provide a range of superior storage efficiency features for both primary and level two storage, reducing enterprise disk purchases by 50%.

Optimize system performance with a platform that supports flash memory

To enhance application responsiveness and performance, the FAS3220 and FAS3250 systems are designed to leverage NETAPP's powerful flash technology, all to provide fully automated virtual storage tiering capabilities. Netapp® Flash is a PCIe card based on the controller that speeds up data access by intelligently caching the most recently read user data and metadata in the storage controller. Without setup or continuous management, IT administrators can optimize storage-system performance, increase storage efficiency, and reduce costs by adding NETAPP flash smart caching because I/O throughput increases by as much as 75%, reducing the number of disks used without impacting performance.

NETAPP Flash pool is a software feature within Data ontap® that automates storage tiering between solid-state disks (SSD) and traditional hard disk (HDD) based on traffic patterns while providing enhanced load performance without the need for user migration of data. Software products Flash Accel can increase I/O throughput by as much as 80% and shorten the average response time by 90%, using Flash technology on the server. With hot data access support on the server and the use of flash memory caches such as flash and flash pools, businesses can use the right storage media to store the appropriate data at the right time to meet service levels and increase storage efficiencies by as much as 60%.

With speed, performance, and reliability, IT infrastructure will be transformed into a competitive advantage. Combined with NETAPP virtual storage tiering, Flash can improve storage efficiency by reducing power consumption, heat dissipation, and data center space requirements.

Basic components to help partners meet more customer requirements and drive long-term sales growth

FAS3200 platform is designed for the environment of traditional environment and cloud environment, can help partners to meet the specific needs of customers, promote the company's long-term sales business development. These systems are extremely flexible and can respond dynamically and non-disruptively to customer needs to meet the needs of large, midsize and other enterprises. FAS3220 and FAS3250 provide predictability, connectivity, and scalability to meet most of the customer's needs and manage growth through an intelligent, simple, predictable, and scalable platform.

Availability

FAS3220 and FAS3250 are now available for ordering. These two systems will be available through NETAPP's value-added authorized resellers, distributors, and system integrators worldwide networks.

Support Introduction:

· Shenzhou Digital Storage and application Optimization Division general Manager Zhao

"The release of the FAS3200 series products will provide a strong guarantee for NetApp to gain favorable position in the market competition of subdivided products and segments." ”

· Wang International Enterprise Product Division general Manager

"NetApp's newly released FAS3200 series is an effective way to enhance the competitiveness of NetApp mid-tier products." It significantly improves storage system performance, flexibility and scalability, while fully supporting the complete flash flash technology, leveraging the NetApp virtual storage layer (VST) to achieve industry-leading storage efficiency, with the latest data Ontap operating system for midsize enterprise storage consolidation and virtualization applications, to achieve , to a long time, the extremely sensitive data infrastructure provides a good platform for software and hardware. As an important distribution partner in NetApp China, we thank NetApp for offering such competitive and cost-effective core offerings, which will help us and our partners develop a broader range of new customers and win opportunities in the competitive storage market. ”

· Avnet's NETAPP technology advisor Brian Mitchell.

"Our partners need mature solutions that can accelerate development, respond to unpredictable changes, and improve competitive advantage." The new FAS3200 is simple and flexible, while providing a clustered storage base that can be seamlessly expanded from 2 nodes to 24 nodes. ”

· NETAPP Star Partner Arira Company President Youngoh Lee

"As a global leader in IT innovation, NETAPP has always provided the tools and technologies to ensure our business continuity." With NETAPP's proven storage solution, we can ensure high availability of our customer Data environment and optimize our customers ' storage investments. The FAS3200 platform, which supports flash memory, helps us improve our growth capabilities and help our customers accelerate their business development. The new FAS3200 will help customers find a balance between price, performance and functionality to best meet their future needs. ”

Introduction to Analytical institutions

· Brian Babineau, vice president of research and Analysis Services, Enterprise strategy Group (ESG)

"Data growth and management remain a challenge for IT departments." Midsize enterprises and large enterprises are looking for a basic component that can build a sensitive infrastructure that has the scalability, performance, and delivery capacity to meet this challenge. Today's product launch introduces a new level of performance-driven systems that can help companies build a strong technology platform to scale as needed. ”