Behind the Scenes: Episode 186 – Storage Efficiencies in NetApp ONTAP

Welcome to the Episode 186, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we invite the ONTAP storage efficiency team to discuss how storage efficiencies work in ONTAP, things to consider, best practices and more! https://soundcloud.com/techontap_podcast/episode-186-ontap-storage-efficiency-overview Finding the PodcastYou can find this week’s episode here: episode-186-ontap-storage-efficiency-overview …

Logical vs. Used Space in ONTAP 9.4

In storage, the race to zero usually takes on two different faces: Performance/latency Space used/storage efficiencies While it may seem counter-intuitive for a company that sells data storage to want people to have to use less of it, this is what people want. They don't want to feel like they're being double-charged for inefficiencies in …

ONTAP 9.4RC1 is now available!

Hear ye! Hear ye! All ye storage admins! ONTAP 9.4RC1 is announced today! That's right! Every 6 months, without fail, a new ONTAP version with a payload of new features is released. You can find ONTAP 9.4RC1 here: http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/ontap/9.4RC1 For info on what a release candidate is, see: http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/products/ontap_releasemodel/ Also, check out the documentation center: …

Storage Efficiency Transparency: Powered by Data

Recently, NetApp has started to publicly display storage efficiency ratios on AFF systems on the product pages. You can see for yourself here. The initial results look pretty good: That's over 4:1 average capacity savings on our AFF systems, which is possible due to storage efficiency features that are currently only available on NetApp AFF …