June 12, 2006 - Network Appliance,
Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that it has achieved the
first-ever NFS benchmark result of greater than 1 million
operations per second, as tested using the Standard Performance
Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) SFS97_R1™ benchmark. Harnessing
the power of the new NetApp® Data ONTAP GX operating system,
24 FAS6070 nodes worked together under a single namespace to
deliver 1,032,461 SPECsfs97_R1.v3 operations per second, with a
corresponding overall response time of 1.53 milliseconds. With this
announcement, NetApp has now more than tripled the previous
performance record for this NFS benchmark. This result illustrates
that NetApp has substantially raised the bar in offering massive
scale-out performance for customers in high-performance computing
(HPC) environments.
Also announced today, Data ONTAP GX is targeted for HPC customers
in the areas of energy, entertainment, and electronic design
automation. Data ONTAP GX delivers massive levels of scalability
and NFS performance in a simple, reliable system that is ideal for
HPC. Additional details on Data ONTAP GX are available in a
separate release at
www.netapp.com/news/press/news_rel_20060612.
Patrick Rogers, vice president of marketing, Products and Alliances
at Network Appliance said: "HPC customers have insatiable needs for
higher storage system performance. Tripling the industry record for
NFS performance in our initial release demonstrates the
breakthrough capabilities and enormous potential of Data ONTAP
GX."
Results from the SPEC SFS benchmark test are available at
http://www.spec.org/sfs97r1/results/res2006q2/sfs97r1-20060522-00263.html.
Data ONTAP GX is available immediately for customers in HPC
environments. Pricing is available from NetApp sales and sales
partners.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions
for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992,
Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner
firsts. Information about Network Appliance solutions and services
is available at
www-uk.netapp.com.
NetApp, the Network Appliance logo, and Data ONTAP and are
registered trademarks and Network Appliance is a trademark of
Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other
brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective holders and should be treated as such.
SPEC and the benchmark name SPECsfs97_R1 are registered trademarks
of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive
benchmark results stated above reflect results published on
www.spec.org as of June 12, 2006. For the latest SPECsfs97_R1
benchmark results visit www.spec.org/osg/sfs97_R1
For Further Information, please contact:
Elisabeth van de Mandele/Sally Robards
Kaizo
netapp@kaizo.net
020 7580 8852