NetApp E5400 To Tackle Growing Storage Requirements

NetApp has announced a portfolio of products and solutions built on the NetApp E-Series Platform to enable customers and partners to effectively tackle new and growing storage requirements. The E-Series Platform leverages technology gained from NetApp’s completed purchase of the Engenio external storage systems business from LSI Corporation and enables NetApp to enter emerging markets.

The NetApp E5400 storage system, which is available for OEMs, is a sixth-generation storage system that delivers high-class performance optimal for big-bandwidth applications, extreme storage density, and exceptional uptime. This unique combination makes the E5400 an ideal solution for high-performance environments with massive amounts of critical data and computing demands that require enterprise-class scalability and reliability.

The E5400 provides OEMs with a proven architecture. Its compact 4U form factor integrates controllers and drives to maximise storage density while reducing operational expenditures. The E5400’s fully redundant design and online administration enable continuous high-speed data access.

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“NetApp is a storage-focused company, which enables us to make R&D investments in advanced storage technologies and existing product enhancements much faster and more effectively than other vendors,” said Joel Reich, vice president and GM of the Array Products Business Unit, NetApp. “With the E-Series Platform now part of the NetApp portfolio, we will continue to build upon the existing product road map and engineering innovations to deliver to our OEMs a high-speed, cost-effective, scalable, and reliable storage platform to help them address their customers’ growing high-performance workload requirements.”

NetApp has also announced a new solution built on the E-Series Platform that enables speed of deployment and simplifies manageability of Hadoop infrastructure, allowing customers to deploy a solution in hours versus weeks and to dynamically expand to petabyte scale.

The E-Series Platform provides an optimised, purpose-built storage solution to address various big-analytics applications. By simplifying and packaging the deployment of Hadoop infrastructure, NetApp accelerates the time to value and enables customers to scale their deployments more practically and predictably. Working with an ecosystem of partners, NetApp continues its commitment to industry standards and open sources, including the Apache distribution of Hadoop.

“NetApp has a strong history of leadership in supporting new technology innovations. Hadoop democratises access to previously untapped data and information,” said Rich Clifton, senior vice president at NetApp. “Our solution allows enterprise adopters to gain business advantage by analysing vast quantities of information in real time. Customers can deploy the solution in hours versus weeks and scale predictably and simply.”