NetApp announces ONTAP 9 Enterprise Data Management Software

NetApp has announced the launch of NetApp ONTAP 9 operating system, an enterprise data management software that combines new levels of simplicity and flexibility with powerful capabilities and efficiencies. With ONTAP 9 software, enterprises can quickly integrate the best of traditional and emerging technologies, incorporating flash, the cloud and software-defined architectures to build a Data Fabric foundation across on-premises and cloud resources.

“As effective flash dollar-per-GB costs drop, flash deployment in the enterprise is accelerating. NetApp’s release of the industry’s first 15TB flash drive, combined with new storage efficiency technology features in ONTAP 9, continues to drive that cost down in a flash-optimized, enterprise-class storage platform that is well suited for the type of dense mixed workload consolidation that customers are increasingly looking to their trusted suppliers to deliver,” said Eric Burgener, Research Director for IDC’s Storage Practice...Read More