NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced at re:Invent the launch of FSx for ONTAP scale-out file system in partnership with AWS . The scale-out file system improves storage performance by up to nine times compared to existing file systems, allowing customers to run high-performance applications on AWS faster and more efficiently.
FSx for ONTAP enables customers to use ONTAP’s data management capabilities for a variety of workloads, such as user and application file shares, relational databases (SAP HANA), VMware cloud data storage on AWS, and backup and disaster recovery. With new enhancements, customers can now use FSx for ONTAP for a wider range of high-performance use cases such as high-performance computing (HPC), electronic design automation (EDA), visual effects (VFX) and film editing, life sciences, seismic Analytics, machine learning and generative artificial intelligence.
Organizations of all sizes are migrating on-premises workloads to AWS or deploying cloud-native workloads to accelerate innovation, increase agility and security, and reduce costs. With FSx for ONTAP, customers get full ONTAP functionality. These include multi-protocol access to data, point-in-time and space-efficient Snapshot™ copies and replication for data protection, thin cloning for operational and cost efficiencies, and data tiering, deduplication and compression for further cost savings. Scale-out file systems extend all of these advantages by improving performance and capacity scalability.
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A single Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP scale-out file system delivers up to 36GB per second throughput and 1.2 million SSD input/output operations per second (IOPS), compared to the current 4GB per second throughput and 160,000 SSD IOPS limit. Performance improved by 9 times. Up to six pairs of file servers operate as a storage cluster, each pair delivering up to 6GB per second throughput and 200,000 SSD IOPS with sub-millisecond file operation latencies. Computing applications can benefit from higher aggregate performance and a single petabyte-scale namespace, simplifying the management of large data sets within a single storage system. Customers can easily lift and shift, scale or deploy new high-performance workloads on AWS while taking advantage of the data management capabilities of ONTAP and the agility, scalability and security of AWS.
Ronen Schwartz, senior vice president and general manager of cloud storage at NetApp, said: “To keep up with today’s pace of innovation, especially in areas that require large amounts of data processing, organizations need scalable storage that provides a solid foundation for their high-performance computing workloads. These new capabilities are focused on improving performance and scale for innovative workloads while maintaining strong data management capabilities in areas such as data lifecycle, backup, data recovery and data movement to support Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. With these new capabilities, more customers can take advantage of our market-leading data management and security capabilities, enabling them to scale operations through the cloud or quickly adapt to changing market conditions.”
“Customers are increasingly running and scaling compute-intensive workloads in AWS, leveraging AWS’ rich analytics, AI and ML services and virtually unlimited infrastructure to gain insights faster,” said Edward Naim, general manager of AWS File Storage. and accelerate innovation. With FSx for ONTAP’s scale-out file system, customers can now move their compute-intensive ONTAP workloads to run on AWS without changing how they manage their data.”
SOURCE: Businesswire