NetApp FAS8040 - network storage server

As the role of technology has expanded to cover key business operations as well as back-office functions, IT leaders have had to rethink the way they architect storage. Traditional requirements such as storage uptime, scalability, and cost efficiency are still critical, but so are factors such as cloud integration, unified support for SAN and NAS, and simplified data mining for competitive advantage. Many enterprises struggle, held back by structural limitations in legacy storage and data architectures. Traditional storage arrays might deliver on basic needs, but are incapable of meeting advanced service requirements and IT models such as cloud. The Solution Accelerate business operations with unified scale-out storage The demands of a data-driven business require a fundamentally new approach to storage with an integrated combination of high-performance hardware and adaptive, scalable storage software that not only supports existing workloads, but also adapts and scales quickly to address new applications and evolving IT models. FAS8040 enterprise storage systems are engineered specifically to address these needs. Powered by NetApp Data ONTAP and optimized for scale-out, proven data management capabilities, the FAS8000 has the flexibility to keep up with changing business needs while delivering on core IT requirements. The FAS8040 features a multiprocessor Intel chip set and leverages high-performance memory modules, NVRAM to accelerate and optimize writes, and an I/O-tuned PCIe gen3 architecture that maximizes application throughput. Building on a decade of multicore optimization, Data ONTAP drives the latest cores and increased core counts to keep up with continuous growth in storage demands. The result is a flexible, efficient I/O design capable of supporting large numbers of high-speed network connections and massive capacity scaling.