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NetApp Strengthens Data Center Offerings with New
Enterprise Storage Solutions
NetApp
December 10, 2007
New FAS6000 and V6000 Series Offer Enterprise Customers
Increased Capacity, Flexibility, and Scalability
Sunnyvale, CA -- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today broadened its
footprint in the high-end data center market with the
introduction of the new FAS6000 and V6000 series solutions.
Enhancements to these data center storage systems provide
enterprises greater flexibility to support demanding IT
environments and massive scalability to consolidate
application data and grow it on the fly. The NetApp® FAS6000
and V6000 systems help maximize application-level
availability and high storage utilization to reduce power,
space, and cooling costs. These features, coupled with the
NetApp unified storage architecture, offer incredible
business value for enterprise customers.
“We listen to our customers and respond with innovation that
impacts their businesses,” said Patrick Rogers, vice
president of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. “The new FAS6000
and V6000 series further scale our product line to provide
the largest and most demanding businesses with the best
modular storage solutions available today. NetApp is arming
enterprise IT professionals with the necessary tools to
exceed their business goals.”
The four new systems announced today include the FAS6040 and
FAS6080 and the corresponding V-Series solutions, the V6040
and V6080. The enhanced FAS6000 series of modular storage
systems is designed to handle the largest applications and
consolidations found in enterprise data centers. In fact,
the FAS6080 is the first modular storage system to exceed
more than 1PB in storage capacity. The FAS6040 and FAS6080
offer a significant amount of capacity with increased
support for up to 1TB disk drives.
Additionally, the V6040 and V6080 enhance the value of
third-party storage arrays by adding the data management
features of the NetApp Data ONTAP® software family. The
longstanding tradition of NetApp unified storage—NAS, SAN,
and iSCSI support in a single system—combined with increased
capacity performance and provisioning means that enterprise
customers can experience reduced space, power, and cooling
costs while preserving investments in legacy infrastructure.
The unmatched combination of capacity, energy efficiency,
and application flexibility provide a compelling solution
for IT executives looking to reduce total cost of ownership
without sacrificing performance and ease of use.
Storage and I/O scalability are key features of the FAS6000
series. The FAS6080 system can be configured with over
1100TB of raw storage capacity using up to 1,176 hard disk
drives. Similarly, the FAS6040 system can support over 800TB
of capacity using as many as 840 disk drives. Both models
have a high-bandwidth controller design that provides I/O
expandability of up to 56 integrated 4Gb-per-second Fibre
Channel ports or 52 1Gb-per-second Ethernet ports.
New Entry-Level Configurations
As part of today’s news, NetApp is also announcing new
FAS2000 configurations, which now support SATA drives
internally in addition to already-shipping SAS-internal
configurations. For price-per-capacity leadership at the
entry level, these configurations provide the lowest price
points and highest storage density in a 2U or 4U rack
footprint—and more capacity in a smaller footprint means
lower energy, power, and cooling costs. The FAS2020 also
supports up to four external expansion shelves for a maximum
raw capacity of up to 65TB.
Pricing and Availability
All products described in this press release are available
immediately from NetApp. Customer pricing is available from
NetApp sales representatives or sales partners.
NetApp SupportEdge Premium services are available with these
new solutions. Designed for enterprise data center
environments, SupportEdge combines expert on-site resources
with innovative remote capabilities to provide the superior
comprehensive and proactive support services that data
centers need.
Technical Information
Technical information on the new FAS6000 and V6000 solutions
is available online at
http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/fas6000_tech_specs.html
and
http://www.netapp.com/products/v-series/v-series_tech_specs.html.
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http://communications.netapp.com/p/Network_Appliance/techontap_reg.
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