Data infrastructure company NetApp has updated its enterprise storage portfolio, expanding the NetApp ASA A-Series. It features new systems to accelerate and consolidate block workloads, enabling users to create a silo-free data infrastructure.
"With the industry's most comprehensive storage lineup with built-in cyber resiliency, we offer faster, simpler, more scalable, and more affordable than the competition—tailored to any workload or budget. NetApp enables customers to rise to the challenges and opportunities of modern data management with an intelligent data infrastructure that optimises operations, reduces risks, and accelerates AI transformation," said Sandeep Singh, senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp.
NetApp ASA A-Series
The new NetApp ASA A20, A30, and A50 systems make block storage available to companies of every size for mission-critical apps like databases and virtual machines. These systems, ideal for smaller deployments, including remote or branch offices, are designed to deliver simplicity, power, and most importantly, affordability, ensuring that even smaller enterprises can benefit from NetApp's innovative solutions.
It enables customers to modernise their operations with effortless storage. Users can deploy it in minutes, provision it in seconds, and protect it with one click.
Further, it claims to operate faster and more agilely with a storage architecture that delivers consistent performance and the flexibility to start small and scale to PBs of capacity. Importantly, it comes with a 99.9999% data availability guarantee and a ransomware recovery guarantee, providing a high level of security and reducing operational risks.
NetApp claims its upfront costs are 30-50% lower than those of competitive systems, with 97 % lower power consumption and low operational overhead when modernising to all-flash ASA.
