NetApp introduces all-flash storage array

Kurian says NetApp's new high-performance all-flash EF560 storage array is exactly what enterprises need to serve their customers faster.
Kurian says NetApp’s new high-performance all-flash EF560 storage array is exactly what enterprises need to serve their customers faster.

Storage solutions vendor NetApp Inc, has announced the launch of the NetApp EF560 all-flash array with improvements in storage performance to offer absolute and consistent latency, bandwidth and IOPS critical to enterprise database and analytics applications.

NetApp said the new offering is based on a new Storage Performance Council SPC-1 Result, which has led to the EF560 to have an average response time of under one millisecond, at $0.54/SPC-1 IOPS.

“New deployments of server platforms, CPUs, operating systems and enterprise applications are driving IT leaders to rebalance their data center infrastructure and storage performance is a key success factor with these upgrades,” said George Kurian, executive vice president of Product Operations at NetApp. “Our new high-performance all-flash EF560 is exactly what enterprises need to serve their customers faster and provide a better overall user experience.”

In addition, the company has introduced the new NetApp E5600 hybrid array which leverages the flash optimisations of the EF560 in hybrid configurations using both solid-state drives and conventional disk drives.

According to the storage solutions vendor, the hybrid E5600 storage array delivers increased performance and reliability for more capacity-intensive SAN applications including data warehousing, email and backup.

Leah Schoeb, senior partner and analyst, Evaluator Group, said: “The flash-based storage market has shown incredible growth over the past year as the solutions available continue to evolve to meet the demands of today’s enterprise applications. From high-frequency trading to real-time risk management, enterprises are seeing that flash storage performance can dramatically change their business.”

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