NetApp Launches ASA-A Series with Modernized Architecture and Announces ONTAP Certification with Nvidia SuperPod

NetApp has renewed its offering of AFF block storage systems with the serie A-Series focused on dedicated and Tier 1 applications, in which it has implemented a more modern architecture and has announced the Certification of its ONTAP operating system with Nvidia DGX SuperPOD to boost Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The company has recalled that it entered the block storage market in 2023 “with the lowest price in the sector” and has acknowledged that, during this time, customers have conveyed their desire to modernize your storage for databases and VMware.

The global intelligent data infrastructure company has thus been faced with “a dilemma”: Simple, easy-to-use storage or scalability and advanced data management features, as explained by the VP Product Marketing, Jeff Baxter, and the SVP Enterprise Storage of the company, Sandeep Singh.

In this sense, just a few months after renewing AFF systems, it has announced new ones aimed at Encryption functions built into the ‘hardware’ rather than just ‘software’with more modern architectures and to which a smaller budget can be allocated.

After incorporating the ASA series and generating the confidence of “more than 20,000 clients” in its infrastructure, it has presented the new AFF ASA-A family, based on SAN storage protocolwhich helps customers modernize their block booking, is easy to use and can be deployed in minutes.

These systems offer a benefit of up to 2xfacilitate the obtaining of up to 12 million input and output operations per second (IOPS), reduce latency, and come with SnapMirror ActiveSync.

NetApp has also commented that the ASA-A series – for Tier 1 applications, such as databases or CRM- is presented with three new models, A70, A90 and A1K, that offer a better usabilityson more effective and allow customers to spend more money on other operational expenses because they can purchase less capacity.

The firm has also mentioned that this, together with the user experience of the ONTAP unified storage operating system, It allows companies to benefit from automation, a consistent data security model and a demonstrable economic benefit from the use of this technology.

On the other hand, for reduce the cost of data maintenancehas mentioned two new FAS storage systemswhich offer the best performance in terms of price and configuration flexibility.

It is about FAS70 y FAS90which have been designed “to be economical, simple and secure” and offer significant improvements over the current generation. So much so that FAS70 is 85 percent more agile than FAS8300 and 40 percent more flexible in system operations.

As to FAS90NetApp has maintained that it is a Model 35 percent faster than FAS9500 y takes up to 33 percent less rack spaceIn short, FAS systems have been developed to address lower cost of data throughout its lifecycle and for secondary storage.

CYBER RESILIENCE

NetApp officials also agreed that the Cyber ​​resilience remains an issue main for both its clients and the industry in general, which is why the firm continues to work on security solutions.

While over the past few years it has been investing in integrating ‘anti-ransomware’ technologies directly into the company’s storage, more recently it has been working on introducing AI into their models to make them more accurate and effective in stopping these types of attacks.

Thus, he mentioned that thanks to the detection of ‘ransomware’ in real time based on AI, validated by SE Labs, he achieves Detect more than 99 percent of attacks with zero false positivesAnother new feature is that the ransomware profile is automatically updated, as well as the AI ​​model on which it is based, without having to update ONTAP and without interruptions to the system.

In this sense, one of the The main new features in this section are Ransomware Protection Service for BlueXPaimed at hybrid multicloud systems and allowing its clients to directly visualize their data to see privacy or exposure risks, as well as to categorize workloads.

Now, all of this can be integrated directly into the platform’s dashboard, which has also been integrated New alerts on anomalous activity in Cloud Insightswhich provides customers with information about their cloud environments and uncovers inefficiencies in the system.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

On the other hand, NetApp has presented two new infrastructures, one with Cisco and another with Lenovo, servers that will be powered with the graphics processing units (GPU) from Nvidia with AI and will offer their storage service.

Specifically, FlexPod AI It has been presented as a “specific reference architecture” built to combine the power of Nvidia GPUs in Cisco platforms with NetApp Storage and offer customers specific solutions based on this technology.

Finally, within the area of ​​AI, NetApp has announced the beginning of the Certification of your ONTAP operating systemwith the data center infrastructure NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, an AI data center infrastructure that enables IT to deliver uncompromising performance for every user and workload.