The data infrastructure space is changing to accommodate a more advanced era of artificial intelligence-based data management, and NetApp Inc. looks to address the shift with its all-flash block storage system.

NetApp’s all-flash SAN array infrastructure is designed to offer both simplicity and power at a low cost. Moreover, the simplicity will scale up as the customer’s data needs grow.

NetApp’s Sandeep Singh talks about ASA’s scalable simplicity.

“The new ASA A-Series is designed to be super simple so that anyone can manage it and it has that simplicity within the system built into it as well as simplicity at scale,” said Sandeep Singh (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at NetApp. “And it comes with powerful scale-out clustering, all of the intelligent data management, six nines data availability, ransomware recovery guarantee built in …We feel that the new ASA A-Series is going to help customers with every budget be able to go and modernize their block workloads.”

Singh spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rob Strechay and Rebecca Knight at NetApp Insight, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the importance of simplicity at scale and how customers are modernizing their data infrastructure. (* Disclosure below.)

How all-flash block storage saves time and money

NetApp’s ONTAP undergirds data infrastructure with a unified storage operating system that supports simplicity at scale. Through ASA, the company is working to extend the benefits of unified data storage to customers with standalone block environments.

“The beauty is the ASA is built with ONTAP and ONTAP brings all of the mature capabilities of the high-end scale out clustering and all of the advanced data management,” Singh said. “There are systems out there, super simple, but they don’t provide that scale out clustering … on the other hand, there’s platforms that bring that, but they’re not known for simplicity. And that’s that trade-off we’re looking to end for customers.”

NetApp aims to help customers with legacy disks modernize their data management with all-flash block storage, according to Singh. He highlights how the simplicity of ASA could minimize resource and skill gaps, as well as enable real-time detection of ransomware through machine learning.

“We’re helping customers eliminate the bespoke infrastructure silos,” he said. “And through that, they get this whole benefit of simplicity at scale. And then from a cloud operating model perspective, it begins with simplicity and agility for the teams … When you think about customers who can have file environments, they’ve got their VMware workloads, the database workloads, AI analytics workloads, cloud storage workloads, secondary workloads, all of those can be underpinned with ONTAP.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of NetApp Insight:

(* Disclosure: NetApp Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither NetApp nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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