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Für Kunden, die Flash-Systeme für primären Datacenter Storage implementieren möchten, bietet das All-Flash FAS System von NetApp erhebliche Vorteile gegenüber anderen Angeboten.  All-Flash FAS Arrays lassen sich beispielsweise jetzt nur für bestimmte Applikationen implementieren und später auf private oder Hybrid Cloud-basierte Applikationen ausweiten – ganz so, wie es die Langzeit-Strategie der Unternehmens-IT vorsieht.  Gewinnen Sie in diesem Papier technologischen Einblick für strategische Investitionen in All-Flash-Arrays.

NetApp orientiert sich bei der Produktentwicklung und seinem Portfolio an den tatsächlichen Applikationsanforderungen seiner Kunden und fokussiert sich dabei auf den greifbaren geschäftlichen Nutzen.  Somit ist auch das umfassende Produktportfolio von NetApp auf Kundenanforderungen abgestimmt – angefangen bei maximaler Leistung bis hin zu ausgereiften Datenmanagement-Funktionen.  Was dies bedeutet, können Sie hier nachlesen.

„Flash Storage für Dummies“ in der 2. NetApp Sonderedition erläutert die vielfältigen Einsatzbereiche und Vorteile von Flash-Storage-Technologie in Unternehmen. Mit der Flash-Technologie lassen sich Performance und Zuverlässigkeit von Storage-Infrastrukturen – von Storage mit Flash-Beschleunigung bis hin zu All-Flash-Arrays – steigern.

In diesem Buch werden unterschiedliche Aspekte von Flash-Storage betrachtet: seine Ursprünge und warum er für die Storage-Infrastruktur eine Erwägung wert ist.  Die wesentlichen Unterschiede zwischen den Flash-Storage-Lösungen von NetApp – NetApp Flash Cache, Flash Pool, rein Flash-basiertes FAS und EF-Series – werden unter die Lupe genommen und Sie lernen fünf Strategien für den Einsatz von Flash im nächsten Storage-Projekt kennen. Im klassischen Stil der „für Dummies“ Bücher erhalten Sie auch nützliche Tipps, wie Sie Flash am besten in Ihre IT-Umgebung integrieren.

Der Einsatz von Flash Storage im Datacenter ist vielversprechend: hervorragende Performance, verbesserte Zuverlässigkeit, Kosteneffizienz und erstklassiges Datenmanagement. Mit unserer Expertise und unseren Innovationen unterstützen wir Sie bei der Implementierung von Flash Storage, um eine optimale Performance Ihrer Applikationen zu erreichen. In diesem Whitepaper erläutern wir unterschiedliche Ansätze bei der Implementierung von Flash. Außerdem möchten wir Ihnen zeigen, warum Sie dadurch Ihre Entscheidungsfindung erleichtern, Ihren Kunden bessere Services bieten und Wettbewerbsvorteile erzielen können.

ESG published white paper focusing on NetApp Flash Strategy and Offerings—a Breadth of Choice. NetApp supports hybrid infrastructures—including cloud as needed—in both principle and in fact. Within that infrastructure, it offers a portfolio of differentiated solutions—multiple all-flash arrays, and multiple hybrid flash arrays—that enable NetApp’s customers to integrate flash into their enterprises in whatever way makes the most sense for their business, needs, and options/constraints. NetApp has been a leading trailblazer in flash for some years now: it is to be applauded for thinking broadly and not just following the herd to certify an SSD or two into its storage boxes.

For customers looking to implement flash for primary data center storge, NetApp's All Flash FAS systems offer some significant advantages over competiitve offerings. Customer can deploy All Flash FAS arrays for specific applications now and later extend them to private and hybrid cloud-based applications as enterprise IT's longer term strategy dictates. Read this technology insight paper on investing strategically in all flash arrays.

NetApp closely ties its product development and portfolio to match its customers' real-world application needs; to support tangible business-level value. NetApp has a full portfolio of products that support customer needs ranging from brute horsepower to datamanagement-rich sophistication. Read about driving business value from flash-optimized storage.

Flash Storage for Dummies, NetApp 2nd Special Edition, describes the many uses and benefits of flash storage technology in the enterprise. From flash-accelerated storage to all-flash arrays, flash technology improves performance and increases reliability in storage infrastructures. The book examines various elements of flash storage: how it evolved, and why you should consider it for your storage infrastructure. The book explores key differences in NetApp’s flash storage solutions: NetApp Flash Cache, Flash Pool, all-flash FAS, and the EF-Series.

You’ll also learn five strategies for using Flash in your next storage project. In that classic For Dummies style, you’ll get some useful tips on how to best incorporate flash in your IT environment.

Applying flash storage in the data center promises so much: ultrafast performance, improved reliability, cost efficiency, and world-class data management. With our expertise and innovation we can help you deploy flash to unleash the performance of your applications. This white paper explores multiple paths to flash storage and why it’s your single best strategy for making faster decisions, serving your customers quicker, and gaining a competitive advantage.

Serving New York residents for over 170 Year, the Brooklyn Hospital Center has continued to change with the times while maintaining its commitment to excellence in caring for under-served residents in Brooklyn and surrounding New York City boroughs. It is now expanding its IT infrastructure to support more patients, more applications, and new initiatives. By deploying a VMware vSphere on NetApp FlexPod Datacenter solution, Brooklyn Hospital Center is now providing fast, reliable data access and the agility to serve patients more effectively.

The adoption of Public and Hybrid Cloud, virtualization and web-based applications are rapidly reshaping the face of data infrastructure. A recent survey by IDG Research reveals that IT pros are increasingly deploying Converged Infrastructure solutions as a way to quickly pivot in response to changing business requirements.

Learn why IT respondents are choosing these pre-validated integrated infrastructure solutions to simplify management, reduce risk and lower costs. Also gain four key insights derived from the study .

Symantec maintains the largest civilian security threat analysis database in the world and traditionally runs hundreds of lab environments dedicated to customer support, product development, and education services, hosted at 25 locations around the world. Learn how they built one of the world’s largest virtual private clouds to improve their business agility.

This NetApp-sponsored whitepaper was written by SQL Server industry influencer, Michael Otey, and discusses the need for modernizing your database infrastructure with SQL Server 2014 and NetApp to accelerate database performance while acheiving greater ROI.

IT managers, line-of-business stakeholders and senior executives continue to look for ways to improve resource utilization and ROI in IT. Challenges with database environments and supporting infrastructures include managing data growth and database size, meeting database performance requi9rements, and deploying new database technologies and applications. This ESG Lab Report test the real world performance, reliability, availability, and serviceability of NetApp EF-Series all flash arrays in Oracle database environments.

Applying flash storage in the data center promises so much: ultrafast performance, improved reliability, cost efficiency, and world-class data management. With our expertise and innovation we can help you deploy flash to unleash the performance of your applications. This white paper explores multiple paths to flash storage and why it’s your single best strategy for making faster decisions, serving your customers quicker, and gaining a competitive advantage.