NetApp SolidFire is a scale-out, all-flash storage platform designed for large-scale infrastructure. SolidFire is unique in its ability to manage storage performance independent of capabilities, and guarantee performance, not just to one application, but to thousands of applications within a single storage platform. These capabilities, combined with a granular scale-out architecture and the ability to automate every aspect of the SolidFire storage platform, empower customers to streamline operations and respond to changing business and application demands faster and more predictably than ever before.
The agility, efficiency, and scalability benefits demonstrated from cloud computing infrastructure have raised the bar on expectations for IT service delivery. The pressure is on IT to:
Rapidly deploy applications and service
Provide more agile and scalable infrastructure
Increase application performance and predictability
Enable automation and end-user self service
Raise operational efficiency and reduce cost
SolidFire is architected from the ground up to be the storage foundation of next generation data centers and is designed to:
Consolidate: Reduce cost and complexity by safely consolidating mission-critical applications onto a single storage platform.
Automate: Increase productivity with deep infrastructure integrations.
Scale: Dynamically scale storage resources to meet business demands.
Each SolidFire storage node utilizes the Element OS software, which includes the following features:
Automated Management
Automatic distribution and load balancing
Comprehensive API
Complete Management Integrations
Scale-out
10’s of TBs to multiple PBs
Non-disruptive scaling and no downtime
Mix nodes in same cluster
Guaranteed Performance
Allocate storage performance independent of capacity
Manage performance in real-time without impacting other volumes
Guarantee performance to every volume with fine-grain QoS settings
Global Efficiency
Inline and post compression
Always-on deduplication
Global thin provisioning
Data Assurance
Helix RAID-less data protection
Real-time replication (Asynchronous and Synchronous)
Integrated backup and recovery (cloud)
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