FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 Program From NetApp

NetApp, Inc. announced the FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 program, which includes guaranteed efficiency reduction of 4:1.

This program combined with the company’s 15TB SSDs makes flash the workload consolidation platform for customers’ infrastructure needs.

“The adoption of flash is most often dependent on the TCO to the customer,” said Camberley Bates, managing partner and analyst, Evaluator Group. “Programs such as the FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 will help users justify the economic value of flash as they look at effective capacity applied to SSDs that are far larger than today’s biggest capacity HDD drives.“

“New high capacity drives and the downward pricing trends of flash technologies are changing the expectations and economics of enterprise IT,” said Lee Caswell, VP, product, solutions and services marketing, NetApp. “Our FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 is designed to remove barriers to flash adoption so customers can realize the promise of an all flash data center — simply, affordably, and without risk.“

When customers choose a firm’s all-flash FAS system, the company will offer a guaranteed total effective storage capacity ratio of at least 4:1, with associated remedies in the event the guarantee is not met.

Benefits of FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 program include:

• 3X guaranteed performance – Increase performance by at least 3X with company’s all-flash storage.

• 4:1 guaranteed efficiency – Reduce required useable storage capacity by at least 4:1 with firm’s all-flash storage. Combined with the industry’s first 15TB SSDs customers can fit more than 1PB of data in a single shelf of storage.

• Five ways to get started – In addition to the 3X performance guarantee and 4:1 efficiency guarantee, the company has developed a range of ways to make it easier for customers to adopt flash including a free risk trial, free controller upgrade program and extended warranties.

The FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 program is available.

About the program (registration required)