Behind the Scenes Episode 311: Introducing the NetApp AFF A900

Welcome to the Episode 311, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Cheryl George and Chris Lueth join us to discuss the latest addition to the NetApp ONTAP platform portfolio, the AFF A900! Joining us: Cheryl George, NetApp Outbound PM (cheryl.george@netapp.com) Chris Lueth, NetApp Principal TME - Hardware …

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ONTAP 9.9.1RC1 is now available!

ONTAP is keeping the twice-yearly release cadence by providing spring and fall releases to keep up with the need for new and rapidly developing features. In addition, the cloud versions of ONTAP will use different release numbers. ONTAP 9.9 signifies the cloud release of ONTAP and ONTAP 9.9.1 is the on-prem release. You can download …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 147 – SPC-1v3 Results – NetApp AFF A800

Welcome to the Episode 147, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we find out how the new NetApp A800 system fared in the rigorous SPC-1 v3 storage benchmarks. Can the NVMe attached SSDs truly help reduce latency while maintaining high number of IOPs? …

New NetApp FlexPod Cisco Validated Designs available!

In case you weren't aware, NetApp partners with other vendors, such as Cisco, to create bundled architectures that are co-supported and simple to deploy. These converged infrastructure products are known as "FlexPods" and they go through a rigorous testing and validation process by both NetApp and Cisco to ensure the highest probability of success in …

The NetApp A200 is kind of a big deal…

Recently, StorageReview.com reviewed the NetApp All Flash FAS model, the A200. The testing workload was as follows: The application workload benchmarks for the NetApp AFF A200 consist of the MySQL OLTP performance via SysBench and Microsoft SQL Server OLTP performance with a simulated TPC-C workload. Some of the application simulated workloads were: VMware Oracle SQL …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 71 – SPC-1 benchmark and the A700s

Welcome to the Episode 71, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” We decided to do a mid-week release of the podcast to talk about the brand new AFF platform, as well as the insanely high results from the SPC-1 benchmark test! We bring in the performance team, featuring …

TECH::Smaller is better; less is more. – Introducing the new 6U 8080 AFF!

We're getting smaller!

TECH::Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.1 is now in general availability (GA)!

Today, clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT) 8.3.1GA became available! Find out what new stuff it brings!

TECH:: NetApp is kicking some flash!

Need All Flash FAS? Don't want to sell a kidney to get it? You're in luck!