NetApp Introduces New All-Flash Storage Array EF560
Average response time under 1ms, at $0.54/SPC-1 IO/s as tested by SPC
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 3, 2015 at 3:05 pmNetApp, Inc. announced the EF560 all-flash array with improvements in storage performance to offer the consistent latency, bandwidth and IO/s critical to enterprise database and analytics applications.
EF560
Based on a new Storage Performance Council SPC-1 Result, the all-flash EF560 achieved the leading SPC-1 Price-Performance for all-flash arrays with an average response time of under one millisecond, at $0.54/SPC-1 IO/s.
“New deployments of server platforms, CPUs, OSs 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, EVP of product operations, 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.”
Additionally, the company introduced the new NetApp E5600 hybrid array which leverages the flash optimizations of the EF560 in hybrid configurations using SSDs and conventional HDDs. It delivers increased performance and reliability for more capacity-intensive SAN applications including data warehousing, email and backup.
According to Leah Schoeb, senior partner and analyst, Evaluator Group, “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.”
EF560 All-Flash Array
Applications that control key business operations such as databases, analytics and OLTP require both performance and consistent response times in order to speed customer response times, deliver actionable results more quickly, and reach decisions faster. The EF560 maximizes the value of flash to provide the top SPC-1 Price-Performance value for a storage array with an average response time of under one millisecond, reaching 245,011.76 SPC-1 IO/s with an average response time of 0.93 milliseconds in the SPC-1 Result. The nresult also confirmed that at 50% of the specified SPC-1 load level the EF560 delivers 122,491.97 SPC-1 IO/s at an average response time of 0.34 milliseconds.
E5600 Hybrid Array
It is the new hybrid entry in the E-Series family offering a mix of flash and disk to provide cost-effective performance for more capacity-intensive applications such as email, SharePoint, HPC, OLAP, data warehouse and video. The E5600 seamlessly scales to petabytes.
Both EF560 and E5600 are supported with the NetApp SANtricity 8.20 software, featuring multicore performance and online disk firmware upgrades.
For database administrators, they also offer integration with database management software including Oracle Enterprise Manager, vSphere, Microsoft Systems Center and Splunk.
Additionally, NetApp OnCommand Insight storage management software provides operational best practices for capacity planning and storage utilization.
For private cloud deployments, NetApp provides OpenStack block storage (Cinder) drivers for the EF560 and E5600 arrays.
The EF560 and E5600 are available.
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