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AFF A-Series arrays: Cloud-integrated, primed to perform
Need a little (or a lot) more performance for your critical business applications? Our AFF A-Series arrays deliver the award-winning speed and responsiveness your performance-sapping workloads demand.
Why NetApp AFF A-Series?
Rich data services and agile cloud connection made simple
Go ahead, feed the AFF A-Series arrays your biggest demands—enterprise databases, data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML)—they simply hum under pressure. Not only do these arrays deliver consistent low latency under the most stressful workloads, but performance won’t suffer when storage efficiency technologies are turned on.
Trustworthy? You bet. AFF A-Series arrays deliver best-in-class integrated data protection and seamless cloud backup and recovery. After all, what good is performance without security?
AFF A900: A new superhero for your enterprise applications
Every data center needs a superhero to keep their business-critical applications running and important data always available and secure. Say hello to the new NetApp® AFF A900 system. Powered by NetApp® ONTAP® Enterprise Edition software and a high-resiliency design, our new lightning-fast NVMe storage system saves the day (every day) by eliminating disruptions to mission-critical operations, minimizing performance tuning, and safeguarding your data from ransomware attacks.
Everyone loves a good win-win-win
Using an annual process of in-depth market research and product assessment to identify the best of the best for IT decision makers, GigaOm has now released multiple GigaOm reports in which NetApp ranks first in:
- Primary Storage for Large Enterprises
- Enterprise Scale-out File Systems
- Cloud File SystemsSource: GigaOm, Data Storage for the Hybrid Multicloud Era, January 25, 2022
Key benefits of choosing the A-series
AFF A-Series arrays are smart, powerful, and trusted solutions that take advantage of modern cloud technologies to deliver the speed, efficiency, and security your data fabric needs.
Smarter than your average storage array
Deep integration with your critical business applications allows the provisioning of storage in minutes. Market-leading data reduction capabilities ensure maximum storage savings. And move your data wherever you need, on premises or in the cloud without a hitch.
There’s powerful, and then there’s AFF A-Series powerful
Boost the performance of your enterprise apps and AI/ML with the industry’s lowest latency NVMe storage. The dual support of NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP connectivity lets you choose the best fit to maximize performance with easy integration into your existing SAN. Plus, scale performance and capacity without causing disruptions.
No other array works as hard to earn your trust
Meet your strictest SLAs with integrated and application-consistent data protection. Optimized tier-one SAN resiliency delivers zero data loss and zero downtime. Automatic ransomware protects against next-gen attacks with industry-leading security enhancement for an extra layer of detection and recovery. And SupportEdge optimizes your systems with simplified, predictive support services.
Building a new digital launch pad?
See why sophisticated companies chose NetApp after reimagining their data architecture.
ONTAP data management software: the power behind AFF A-Series
Unify your data. Simplify your hybrid cloud. Reduce costs. That’s the power of NetApp® ONTAP® software. Designed to give AFF A-Series arrays every advantage possible in the data center and when connected to the cloud. You just won the data management lottery.
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Meet the models in the AFF A-Series
While each AFF A-Series model features the same ONTAP software, they differ in hardware capabilities. From modernizing your IT to moving data in and out of multiple clouds, find the right solution for your data needs in the AFF A-Series.
AFF A400
Extend a warm welcome to the ideal combination of all that you need at the midrange.
Cloud tiering made simple, smart, and wonderfully frugal
This hands-on lab will show you how easy it is to tier your cold data from a NetApp all-flash system to an on-premises private cloud, and keep dollars from unnecessarily flying out the window.
Risk-averse? Fear not, we removed it from the equation
We believe you should always get predictable, blazing-fast speed from every application even at peak demand. We also believe you should always experience the best effective capacity. That’s why we guarantee both with our NetApp® Keystone® consumption model.
Thanks Gartner®, we could get used to this
For the third year in a row, NetApp has been recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Primary StorageGartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage, 11 October 2021, Jeff Vogel, Roger W. Cox, Joseph Unsworth, Santhosh Rao..
As a fitting compliment to this impressive streak, NetApp landed at or near the top of Gartner’s list for server virtualization and VDI, containers, and cloud IT operations in the 2021 Critical Capabilities for Primary StorageGartner Critical Capabilities for Primary Storage, 11 October 2021, Santhosh Rao, Roger W. Cox, Joseph Unsworth, Jeff Vogel.
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AFF technical specifications
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| Best for | Performance-driven workloads and mission-critical applications requiring high resiliency | Most demanding workloads requiring ultra-low latency | Most enterprise applications that require best balance of performance and cost | Mid-size business and small enterprises that require simplicity and best value |
| Maximum scale-out | 24 nodes | 24 nodes | 24 nodes | 24 nodes |
| Maximum SSD | 5760 | 2880 | 5760 | 576 |
| Max Effective CapacityEffective capacity based on 5:1 storage efficiency ratios with the maximum number of SSDs installed; space savings will vary dependent on workload and use cases. | 702.7PB | 316.3PB | 702.7PB | 35.2PB |
| Controller Chassis Form Factor | 8U | 4U; 48 internal SSD slots | 4U | 2U; 24 internal SSD slots |
| Meet the A900 | Meet the A800 | Meet the A400 | Meet the A250 |
Florida school district gets an A+ in managing student data
By choosing to modernize its infrastructure with a new NetApp AFF cluster, Florida’s Palm Beach County School District consolidated data from four different legacy vendors into one cluster, providing faster services and solutions while reducing the total cost of operations.
The German stock exchange accelerates workloads with NetApp
To handle the continued growth and manage trading volatility inherent to marketplaces, Börse Stuttgart modernized its infrastructure with private cloud running on FlexPod. The converged infrastructure platform, built with powerful, low-latency AFF all-flash arrays, supports all areas of the exchange.
A medical center mobilizes more than 3,500 caregivers across five facilities
To better support its mission and to provide clinicians across the system with quick and seamless access to data from its electronic health record (EHR) system and other computing resources, JFK Medical Center replaced an aging IT infrastructure with NetApp technology, including NetApp all-flash systems.
With NetApp AFF, we never worry. NetApp allows us to provide excellent performance to our customers because it’s a reliable system. It’s just always on all the time. It allows us to sleep at night.
Greg Weld, Senior Converged Infrastructure Engineer, Fair Isaac Corp.
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