To help customers get more performance and scalability out of their storage, NetApp has introduced the following new products:

FAS3100 and V3100 storage system series: NetApp’s new FAS3140 and FAS3170 storage systems enable customers to meet their diverse storage needs and achieve high levels of availability for their critical business operations and technical applications. The NetApp® FAS3100 series provides improved performance and scalability over other midrange storage systems. While competitive offerings provide disparate products that create additional integration and collaboration issues, NetApp helps customers maximise their engineering staff productivity with a single unified architecture approach and a common suite of application-aware software and management tools that are inherent in the Data ONTAP® operating system, including powerful features such as thin provisioning, deduplication, Snapshot™, RAID-DP®, and FlexVol®. NetApp’s new V3140 and V3170 extend virtualisation to other vendors’ legacy arrays and leverage the same Data ONTAP operating system that is the foundation of all virtualisation functions and integration in NetApp FAS systems. This gives customers the same architecture, software, and management tools for a true, powerful differentiator in mutivendor environments.

Storage Acceleration Appliance: this includes three models, the SA200, SA300, and SA600- and is based on NetApp FlexCache™ technology. It represents the first caching appliance available from a major storage systems vendor. It can be used to accelerate performance at the data centre where the central data repository is located or to improve response time and enhance collaboration within remote offices. Now customers can leverage FlexCache with both Data ONTAP 7G and Data ONTAP GX to achieve better performance and protect their existing investments without rearchitecting their technical computing environments.

Performance Acceleration Module: This add-on intelligent read cache provides a new way to optimise performance of mainstream storage platforms. Now customers have a cost-effective means for improving performance for workloads that are random-read intensive such as file serving. One or more modules fit into PCI Express slots of an existing storage controller, where they function as a read cache to increase throughput and reduce latency. This gives customers a cost-effective, innovative way to scale their storage systems without having to add additional disk drives to increase I/O rates. Additionally, the module consumes 95% less power than a shelf of Fibre Channel disk drives.

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