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NetApp Data Fabric enables businesses to drive competitive advantage with AI


Las Vegas, 30 Oct 2018

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), the data authority for hybrid cloud, today announced ONTAP 9.5, MAX Data, StorageGRID SG6060, NetApp Solution Support for FlexPod, and Flash performance guarantee. These new data services and solutions further extend the NetApp Data Fabric across edge, core and cloud, and enable organisations to fully realise the promise of artificial intelligence.

According to a report from Gartner, artificial intelligence (AI) will be one of the five most important investment priorities for more than 30% of CIOs by 2020 1, and IDC reports nearly 75% of developers will build AI functionality into their apps 2.

However, even though businesses plan to use AI to create new and innovative business opportunities fuelled by diverse, distributed, and dynamic data, they often find their most valuable data is trapped in silos, hampered by complexity and too costly to harness for resource-intensive AI applications.

"With the speed and volume of data now generated and managed across IOT devices and sensors, on-premises data centres, and in hybrid cloud environments, having a Data Fabric that spans edge, core, and cloud is essential to AI success," said Joel Reich, EVP, Storage Systems & Software, NetApp. "With today's new data services and solutions, integrated through the NetApp Data Fabric, organisations can accelerate data pipelines across an entire enterprise to train deep learning models and power AI applications with the simplicity, choice, and scale necessary to achieve real impact."

Modernise storage to enable data management for AI

NetApp ONTAP 9.5 software helps companies modernise their data services with solutions that deliver leading cloud integration, the highest all-flash performance, and greater efficiency and simplicity.

NetApp ONTAP 9.5 software

* Delivers unmatched versatility that offers high performance and consistent low latency, accelerating critical workloads with industry-leading end-to-end NVMe capabilities.
* Unifies data management across storage environments: flash, disk and cloud.
* Automates tiering of petabyte-scale data sets to object stores in the cloud or on the premises.
* Reduces deployment costs for multi-site business continuity solutions.
* Accelerates read performance with cached data sets within a cluster and at remote sites.
* Increases storage efficiency savings by up to 15% for relational database applications.
* Radically increases performance by auto-tiering data between AFF systems and NetApp MAX Data on servers.

MAX Data allows customers to turbo-charge their application performance without rewrites to application code. MAX Data is the industry's first solution to leverage persistent memory in servers to deliver memory-like ultra-low latency and flash-like capacity.

MAX Data

* Accelerates performance of application-level data, enabling faster processing of data for AI applications and real-time data analytics.
* Speeds application data recovery with data protection services for persistent memory in servers.
* Improves efficiency by using fewer servers to achieve similar or better performance.
* Leverages all the data management capabilities of NetApp ONTAP.

Flash performance guarantee

NetApp offers the industry's first latency guarantee that allows customers to consume AI applications with the confidence of predictable low latency. Unparalleled in the industry, the performance guarantee offers consistent latency of 500ms or less and enables businesses to reduce cost and risk by deploying flash with confidence.

Build a hybrid cloud architecture for IOT

NetApp provides industry-leading data management capabilities and solution support to tap into growing data sources with virtually unlimited scalability and performance to feed, train, and operate data-hungry AI, machine learning, and deep learning applications.

NetApp StorageGRID SG6060

* Flash-accelerated object storage addresses the needs of high-performance, high-concurrency workloads for IOT, big data analytics, and machine learning environments.
* Combined with ONTAP FabricPool capabilities, customers now have best-in-class data management capabilities while harnessing the value of object storage economics.

NetApp solution support for FlexPod

* The single-point-of-contact support team has expertise across the key components of the entire solution, storage, storage network, compute, compute OS, LAN networking, and hypervisor.
* NetApp Solution Support also includes NetApp Converged System Advisor (CSA) software, which simplifies the customer's operations and life cycle management of FlexPod. The CSA superior monitoring and management with a single-pane view of the system's health helps reduce time to resolution for support incidents.

Additional resources:

* Read more about today's announcements on the NetApp blog.
* For more information about NetApp's industry-leading stack to power AI enablement, visit https://www.netapp.com/us/products/ontap-ai.aspx.
* For information about NetApp Insight 2018, visit https://insight.netapp.com/.

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NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. NetApp provides a full range of hybrid cloud data services that simplify management of applications and data across cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital transformation. Together with its partners, NetApp empowers global organisations to unleash the full potential of their data to expand customer touch-points, foster greater innovation, and optimise their operations. For more information, visit www.netapp.com. #DataDriven

1 Gartner (July 18, 2017). Gartner Says AI Technologies Will Be in Almost Every New Software Product by 2020. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2017-07-18-gartner-says-ai-technologies-will-be-in-almost-every-new-software-product-by-2020

2 International Data Corporation (October 31, 2017). IDC Predictions Provide a Blueprint and Key Building Blocks for Becoming a Digital Native Enterprise. https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS43185317

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