Several things come to mind when I hear the word “quick.” I once saw thousands of dollars vanish from my checking account in minutes from a PayPal hack (thanks to PayPal and my bank for making everything right). A cheetah can accelerate from a stand-still to 60 mph in about 3 seconds – quick indeed. […]
Co-authors: Naveen Krishnamurthy from VMware, Jayamohan Kallickal from Broadcom General availability (GA) of VMware vSphere 7.0 is a major milestone for VMware. The new release supports many new features that can facilitate transformation of modern data centers. One key feature available with vSphere 7.0 is NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) support. Broadcom, NetApp, and VMware have […]
Everyone wants to go fast. Lewis Hamilton does a pretty good job of it. As does Usain Bolt. One might argue that their need for speed goes beyond their competitive desire to win a race. That they are driven (so to speak) by the desire to be the greatest of all time in their respective […]
NVMe Based Storage Makes the Difference As you probably know, we recently launched a brand new end-to-end NVMe-based storage system, NetApp® AFF A400. I sat down with NetApp Technical Marketing Engineers Chris Lueth and Scott Bell to discuss some technical advantages of the new A400. Key advantages they mentioned include how the new system offers higher performance with more advanced technology, faster host connectivity, and greater flexibility and expandability to future-proof your NetApp investment. What are some […]
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 […]
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 […]
As the use of virtualization increases and flash technology improves, it becomes more important to select the right storage network. Because NVMe can move data between network-connected flash arrays as quickly as data now moves within a physical server, it’s critical that your network meet the performance needs of your virtual infrastructure with unparalleled reliability, […]
With the recent release of ONTAP 9.6, let’s continue exploring the benefits that ONTAP (see previous blog on Simplifying Data Management with ONTAP) and NetApp provide to our customers. In this post, I will describe how NetApp leads the way with end-to-end NVMe solutions based on ONTAP. Digital Transformation demands more Digital transformation looks different […]
NetApp has been the fastest-growing SAN vendor among the top five vendors in the market for the last 2 years. This is by no means a small accomplishment, especially considering the size of NetApp’s business and its overall position in the Enterprise Storage market. One of the reasons behind this growth has been NetApp’s relentless […]
Talk to enterprise data storage vendors today, and all you hear is NVMe-this, NVMe-that, blah blah blah. There’s a good reason for all the noise. Implementing NVMe (NVM Express) as the end-to-end data transfer protocol in your SAN environment can significantly improve throughput and reduce latency, delivering a vastly better experience to your users. […]
This week on the podcast, we find out how the new NetApp A800 system fared in the rigorous SPC-1 v3 storage benchmarks. Can the NVMe attached SSDs truly help reduce latency while maintaining a high number of IOPs? Performance TME Dan Isaacs and the workload engineering team of Scott Lane, Jim Laing and Joe Scott join us to discuss! […]
Data storage technologies have advanced quickly over the past few decades, yet the pace of innovation today seems faster than ever. In the market for external storage systems, hard disks ruled for a long, long time, but once flash came along it quickly took over. First came the hybrid systems (hard disks and flash […]
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