According to a recent study, credit card fraud in the United States is expected to reach $12 billion in 2020. Rules-based expert systems currently used to catch fraud have become too easy to beat. In addition to combating fraud, financial services institutions are also challenged to make the right credit decisions, improve risk management, […]
CGG can’t afford a moment of downtime. The NetApp E-Series storage solution has proven to be an ideal partner for CGG’s HPC applications. Throughout history, tools have changed the world—for example, the wheel. Paper. Printing. The internal combustion engine. Today we’re so inundated with technology that it’s easy to forget that at their […]
The IT industry continues to progress with innovative use of all-flash storage. Already proven in their superior performance and infrastructure density compared with spinning disks, all-flash products are now differentiating further through various innovations. NetApp customers who are also members of IT Central Station validate this progress in their reviews of NetApp® AFF all-flash arrays. […]
Every car needs regular maintenance checks to enable you to diagnose and fix problems early: your SAN will benefit from periodic check-ups as well. Fortunately, there’s a valuable tool that can provide a thorough health check of your entire SAN – and it’s free. The Brocade division of Broadcom provides a SAN Health tool […]
Poker players are very familiar with this high hand—the royal flush. This hand combines the benefits of having the five highest cards in sequential rank and in the same suit: the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten. It’s the highest-ranking hand in poker. A Similar View of Memory-Accelerated FlexPod In a related […]
In 2010, FlexPod® began as an idea for combining the best of breed products from Cisco and NetApp to address certain applications and workloads in a converged infrastructure solution. Fast-forward to the present day, and FlexPod has evolved to serve over 9,500 cumulative customers and $12 billion in worldwide sales. In 2020, FlexPod celebrates its […]
The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) is greater in healthcare than in almost any other industry. From improving patient outcomes and care to expanding the reach of medical expertise and reducing costs, the potential benefits are huge. However, AI efforts in healthcare to date have barely scratched the surface of what will eventually be […]
One of the greatest challenges in a data center is balancing the two biggest expenses: power and capacity. Historically, as the two costs increased together, more racks of hardware and more power would be needed. Today, the relationship has changed as compute and storage capabilities increase and power consumption drops. At NetApp, we are […]
One important decision we made in the NetApp® Active IQ® Unified Manager 9.7 release was to combine Unified Manager and NetApp Service Level Manager (NSLM) into the same platform to deliver a simple but powerful active management and automation platform that means a better user experience for our customers and partners. As we roll […]
Simplicity is no longer a theme with NetApp® Active IQ® Unified Manager, it’s a continuous improvement cycle. A cycle that brings goodies for customers in all spheres with every release, whether it’s better NetApp ONTAP® management or simplified operational monitoring capabilities. The Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7 release announces several enhancements, exciting new features, and […]
Each release of ONTAP Select delivers new ways to leverage software-defined storage in environments with evolving needs. With the release of ONTAP Select 9.7, we are introducing support for Software RAID configurations backed by NVMe (nonvolatile memory express) drives. In this blog, I will highlight the host preparation steps that are unique to deploying ONTAP […]
The exabyte-scale data future is here. Complex new data pipelines from cutting-edge applications, machine-generated data, and IoT endpoints are all flowing into massive unstructured data repositories. NetApp built the network-attached storage (NAS) industry over 27 years ago and we’ve continued to innovate into this new era of scale-out NAS for unstructured file-based data management at […]
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