NetApp updates FAS midrange storage systems

BANGALORE, INDIA: NetApp updated its FAS midrange storage systems with the introduction of FAS3220 and FAS3250.

Designed for SAN and NAS environments, the new FAS storage systems help enterprises and midsized businesses that are consolidating operations onto a shared storage platform improve performance by up to 80 per cent and increase storage capacity up to 100 per cent over existing midrange products, says a release.

"Most enterprises, despite uncertain economic conditions, continue to aggressively invest in technology leaders that can drive agility cost savings into their IT infrastructure," said Brendon Howe, vice president, Product and Solutions Marketing, NetApp. "Our new unified midrange products are optimized for both mission-critical SAN and NAS environments, leverage technologies such as Flash and clustered Data ONTAP to address today's performance and capacity needs and nonstop operations, and are architected to scale for future needs."

The FAS3200 series can be tailored for virtualized, private cloud or traditional environments, requiring only a few terabytes of storage to over 2PB in a single system. When clustered, a FAS infrastructure can scale performance and capacity across 24 storage nodes.

Clustered Data Ontap in it enhances NetApp Data Ontap storage operating system features by enabling storage platforms, such as FAS3220 and FAS3250, to operate as a shared pool of resources.

The new systems include up to three times the number of PCIe expansion slots, which can be used to support network cards, flash cache cards, and additional storage connectivity.

NetApp Flash Pool is a software feature within Data Ontap that enables automated storage tiering across combinations of solid state disks (SSDs) and traditional hard disk (HDD) based on traffic patterns.

The FAS3200 platform is designed for environments spanning traditional to cloud and enables partners to meet their customer-specific needs and foster long-term business sales.

Both the FAS3220 and FAS3250 are now.

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