NetApp Data Fabric for Businesses to Drive Competitive Advantage With AI

NetApp, Inc. announced ONTAP 9.5, MAX Data, StorageGRID SG6060, solution support for FlexPod, and flash performance guarantee.

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These data services and solutions further extend the NetApp Data Fabric across edge, core, and cloud and enable organizations to realize the promise of AI.

Global business value derived from AI is projected to total $1.2 trillion in 2018, an increase of 70% from 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. ⁽¹⁾, and IDC predicts that nearly 75% of commercial enterprise applications will use AI by 2021⁽²).

However, even though businesses plan to use AI to create new and innovative business opportunities fueled by diverse, distributed, and dynamic data, they often find that their most valuable data is trapped in siloes, hampered by complexity and too costly to harness for resource-intensive AI applications.

“With the speed and volume of data now generated and managed across IoT devices and sensors, on-premises data centers, and in hybrid cloud environments, having a Data Fabric that spans edge, core, and cloud is essential to AI success,” said Joel Reich, EVP, storage systems and software, NetApp. “With today’s new data services and solutions, integrated through the NetApp Data Fabric, organizations can accelerate data pipelines across an entire enterprise to train deep learning models and power AI applications with the simplicity, choice, and scale necessary to achieve real impact.“

Modernize storage to enable data management for AI
ONTAP 9.5 software helps companies modernize their data services with solutions that deliver cloud integration, the all-flash performance, and efficiency and simplicity.

ONTAP 9.5 software:

Delivers versatility that offers performance and low latency, accelerating critical workloads with end-to-end NVMe capabilities.
Unifies data management across storage environments – flash, disk, and cloud.
Automates tiering of petabyte-scale datasets to object stores in the cloud or on the premises.
Reduces deployment costs for multi-site BC solutions.
Accelerates read performance with cached data sets within a cluster and at remote sites.
Increases storage efficiency savings by up to 15% for relational database applications.
Increases performance by auto-tiering data between AFF systems and the firm’s MAX Data on servers.

MAX Data allows customers to turbo charge their application performance without rewrites to application code. It is a solution to leverage persistent memory in servers to deliver memory-like ultra-low latency and flash-like capacity.

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MAX Data:

Accelerates performance of application-level data, enabling faster processing of data for AI applications and real-time data analytics.
Speeds application data recovery with data protection services for persistent memory in servers.
Improves efficiency by using fewer servers to achieve similar or better performance.
Leverages all the data management capabilities of ONTAP.

Flash performance guarantee:
The company offers latency guarantee that allows customers to consume AI applications with the confidence of predictable low latency. The performance guarantee offers consistent latency of 0.5ms or less and enables businesses to reduce cost and risk by deploying flash with confidence.

Build hybrid cloud architecture for IoT
The firm provides data management capabilities and solution support to tap into growing data sources with virtually unlimited scalability and performance to feed, train, and operate data-hungry AI, machine learning, and deep learning applications.

StorageGRID SG6060

StorageGRID SG6060:

Flash-accelerated object storage addresses the needs of high-performance, high-concurrency workloads for IoT, big data analytics, and machine learning environments.
Combined with ONTAP FabricPool capabilities, customers have data management capabilities while harnessing the value of object storage economics.

Solution support for FlexPod:

The single-point-of-contact support team has expertise across the key components of the entire solution – storage, storage network, compute, compute OS, LAN networking, and hypervisor.
Solution support also includes the firm’s Converged System Advisor (CSA) software, which simplifies the customer’s operations and lifecycle management of FlexPod. The CSA monitoring and management with a single-pane view of the system’s health helps reduce time to resolution for support incidents.

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