NetApp OS Promises High-Performance Storage Management
NetApp OS Promises High-Performance Storage Management
June 12th, 2006: Network Appliance has made a push into high-performance Linux computing with a new operating system (OS) that it says moves data faster than typical storage arrays.
Called Data ONTAP GX, the OS runs on NetApp’s new FAS3050 and FAS6070 storage arrays and, according to the company, stores and retrieves data from Linux clusters faster than normal storage arrays as it allows file clusters to be viewed as a single system by applications.
Data may also be moved between storage tiers to ease data retrieval and overall management.
“This is for the environment where people are assembling very large quantities of compute power, and very large Linux farms to be able to crack difficult scientific and technical workloads,” Rich Clifton, vice president and general manager of NetApp's networked storage business unit told internetnews.com. “Customers need to be able to process any of the data in their large storage farm through any of these parallel processes in this large-scale application.”
NetApp is highly competitive in both the network attached storage (NAS) and iSCSI markets, holding either the number one or number two position in each. However, it holds only a small amount of the SAN market share at present. Data ONTAP GX and its new FAS6000 systems have been designed to help it grow its storage area network (SAN) market share.
Data ONTAP GX is available now.
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