In a broad announcement, NetApp announced new all-flash performance storage, new capacity-optimized flash object storage, and co-designed with Lenovo for practical deployment of generative AI in the enterprise. We announced a new integrated AI solution. The announcement sets a high bar for what is expected to be a busy few months of storage updates across the industry.
NetApp has announced significant updates across a variety of products, but let's take a look at what the company has to offer for performance storage and AI-focused solutions. Readers interested in all the announcements are encouraged to read NetApp's comprehensive release, which describes new products.
Enhance performance with AFF A-Series
NetApp's new AFF A-Series is the company's latest enterprise all-flash storage system. The new arrays strengthen NetApp's portfolio with improved performance, efficiency, and robust security features.
The A-Series' underlying models, AFF A1K, A90, and A70, are focused on delivering superior performance. The new model promises up to twice the performance of the previous generation, delivering up to 40 million IOPS and 1 TB/s throughput. NetApp's A series delivers high reliability and NetApp promises his 99.9999% data availability.
The A Series aims to go beyond performance and address economic efficiency. The system features always-on data reduction and a 4:1 storage efficiency guarantee designed to optimize storage utilization and reduce total cost of ownership.
To address escalating cyber threats, the AFF A-Series incorporates advanced security measures, including NetApp's integrated real-time ransomware detection. NetApp promises his 99% detection accuracy and offers a ransomware recovery guarantee. NetApp and IBM are the only enterprise storage vendors to offer real-time malware detection, making this capability an attractive differentiator.
NetApp AIPod and Lenovo
NetApp and Lenovo are jointly delivering converged infrastructure solutions designed to streamline the deployment and management needed to deploy enterprise-generated AI workloads.
The new NetApp AIPod with Lenovo combines NetApp's advanced storage systems and data management expertise with the high-performance capabilities of Lenovo's AMD-powered ThinkSystem SR675 V3 server. These servers are known for their reliability and performance and are equipped with NVIDIA L40S GPUs. The server is also his NVIDIA-OVX certified.
Additionally, AIPod includes NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking that ensures fast and reliable data connectivity for AI operations. This pre-integrated setup simplifies the deployment and scaling of AI workloads and supports activities such as search extension generation and inference.
By combining rugged hardware and intelligent software, NetApp AIPod and Lenovo minimize the complexity traditionally associated with implementing AI solutions, allowing organizations to focus on efficiently extracting value and insights from their data. I will make it possible.
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NetApp's new A-Series brings the right capabilities to the performance flash storage market. As we've seen from other vendors since AMD and Intel each released their 4th generation server processors last year, the move to PCI gen5 will lead to many of the performance improvements seen in platform updates across the industry. It's in the back. But the A Series isn't just about performance.
By combining the performance of the new arrays with all the other features NetApp offers in these products: ONTAP's unified block/file/object capabilities, industry-leading flash capacity, and real-time malware detection. , the new A-Series will be a great current offering across the board. -Flash converged storage.
NetApp's focus on the important all-flash market over the past two years has been impressive. The team is showing renewed vigor under enterprise storage general manager Sandeep Singh, who joined NetApp from HPE in 2022. The company has built exactly what it needs in this enterprise storage space and has achieved an impressive level of differentiation.
Lenovo and NetApp have had a long and fruitful collaboration, taking a step forward with the new AIPod product. This product recognizes that AI training is often a cloud-first initiative, and the short-term focus of many companies is on operationalizing generative AI, which is what Lenovo's NetApp AIPod is designed for. It is something that recognizes.
Building high-performance GPU-powered systems for AI remains out of the comfort zone of many IT workers. This is not a technology similar to his traditional IT equipment. AIPod takes much of the guesswork out of the equation, much like NVIDIA's DGX does for training. This is a much-needed solution and we expect a positive response from the market.
Lenovo has expertise in this area. The company has surprised many with competitive, cutting-edge, AI-focused products, such as the recently released ThinkSystem SR685a V3 8GPU.
With these announcements, NetApp addresses the pressing needs of its customers and reaffirms its position as one of the industry's leading enterprise storage technology providers. With a focus on integrating advanced AI capabilities, strengthening cybersecurity posture, and reducing environmental impact, NetApp offers a comprehensive approach to solving the data challenges facing modern enterprises. brings.
Disclosure: Steve McDowell is an industry analyst and NAND Research engages or has engaged in research, analysis, and advisory services with many technology companies, including those mentioned in this article. An industry analyst firm. Mr. McDowell has no stock position in any company mentioned in this article.