NetApp revolutionizes its EF560 all-flash array solution

NetApp has announced the NetApp EF560 all-flash array with improvements in storage performance to offer the absolute and consistent latency, bandwidth and IOPS critical to enterprise database and analytics applications. Based on a new Storage Performance Council SPC-1 Result, the all-flash EF560 achieved the leading SPC-1 Price-Performance for all-flash arrays with an average response time of under one millisecond, at $0.54/SPC-1 IOPS.

“New deployments of server platforms, CPUs, operating systems and enterprise applications are driving IT leaders to rebalance their data center infrastructure and storage performance is a key success factor with these upgrades. Our new high-performance all-flash EF560 is exactly what enterprises need to serve their customers faster and provide a better overall user experience,” said George Kurian, Executive Vice-President of Product Operations, NetApp.

Additionally, the company has introduced the new NetApp E5600 hybrid array which leverages the flash optimizations of the EF560 in hybrid configurations using both solid-state drives and conventional disk drives. The hybrid E5600 storage array delivers increased performance and reliability for more capacity-intensive SAN applications including data warehousing, email and backup.

NetApp EF560 All-Flash Array – Applications that control key business operations such as databases, analytics and OLTP require both absolute performance and consistent response times in order to speed customer response times, deliver actionable results more quickly, and reach decisions faster.  

NetApp E5600 Hybrid Array – The E5600 – is the newest hybrid entry in the E-Series family offering a mix of flash and disk to provide cost-effective performance for more capacity-intensive applications such as email, SharePoint, HPC, OLAP, data warehouse and video. The E5600 seamlessly scales to petabytes.

Both the all-flash EF560 and the hybrid E5600 are supported with the latest NetApp SANtricity 8.20 software. NetApp SANtricity 8.20 features multicore performance and online disk firmware upgrades.

The EF560 and E5600 are available now.