Data storage company NetApp Inc. today announced a new portfolio of storage programs and a line of flash storage for modern data centers.

The new portfolio of storage programs, NetApp Advance, has been designed to help customers cost-effectively future-proof on-premises environments. The service is said to evolve the storage lifecycle by allowing organizations to avoid complex, costly and time-consuming refresh cycles. By enabling ongoing, nondisruptive hardware upgrades, NetApp Advance ensures efficient, secure and sustainable storage with new guarantees to meet the needs of organizations.

NetApp Advance helps eliminate complex, time-consuming and costly upgrade cycles while staying current with technology innovations. Users can choose on-premises or cloud storage options to future-proof environments to scale up securely, seamlessly and nondisruptively as they grow, the company says.

Advance also offers cyber resilience, sustainability and efficiency best practices and capabilities that continually improve energy efficiency and operational performance. Along with reducing a company’s carbon footprint, the product assists in preventing ransomware events while also delivering expertise to recover data quickly and securely should a ransomware attack occur, NetApp says.

As part of NetApp Advance, NetApp has also launched the new NetApp Storage Lifecycle Program. The program offers no additional cost and nondisruptive upgrades to the latest storage controller technology every three, four, or five years.

Users have the option to upgrade controllers at only incremental cost before their three-year renewal. An optional capacity refresh also allows customers to replace lower-capacity drives as part of a storage refresh, meaning they never have to buy the same capacity twice and can achieve a more efficient and sustainable data center footprint.

Flash storage

On the flash storage side, NetApp announced the AFF C-Series family of all-flash QLC-based storage options and NetApp AFF A150, a new entry-level storage system in the AFF A-Series family of all-flash systems.

The new NetApp AFF C-Series delivers high-capacity flash performance while remaining cost-effective and efficient for a lower total cost of ownership and a smaller storage footprint. Customers can modernize their data centers with the ability to choose the right storage — performance flash, capacity flash or hybrid — for their workload and database requirements, all running on NetApp ONTAP and managed centrally by NetApp BlueXP.

The NetApp AFF C-Series, which is comprised of the AFF C250, AFF C400 and AFF C800, offers guaranteed storage efficiency to improve an organization’s storage footprint and energy costs to reduce total cost of ownership while simplifying operations. The range provides scalability on-premises, allowing organizations to scale capacity and performance as their data grows and data security with ransomware protection.

The new NetApp AFF A150, which has been designed with remote work in mind, allows distributed deployments to better meet the needs of customers who require entry-level, enterprise-class storage. Benefits include better performance, scalability, expansion options and high availability with support for MetroCluster IP, according to the company.

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