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All Flash FAS (AFF)
Modernize your infrastructure with all-flash storage to increase the speed and responsiveness of business-critical applications
Future-Proof your Infrastructure with All-Flash FAS
NetApp AFF is an all-flash array that delivers high performance, flexibility, low latency, and superior data management without sacrificing enterprise functionality. AFF provides a smooth transition to flash in your data center, built on NetApp ONTAP® data management software.
All Flash FAS - Leading the Future of Flash
Data-driven companies require an agile and efficient IT infrastructure to meet demands for fast, secure, and continuous data access. A fundamental first step in IT transformation is to modernize your infrastructure with all-flash storage to increase the speed and responsiveness of business-critical applications. Your data fabric helps your organization simplify and integrate data management across cloud and on-premises to meet business needs and gain a competitive advantage. NetApp’s flash-based solutions create an architecture that meets your price, performance, reliability, and scalability requirements. All-flash FAS (AFF) built on NetApp® ONTAP® data management software accelerates the performance of the solution and optimizes it for high availability and scalability.
All-flash arrays enable you to
- Support 2x more workloads and cut application response time in half with a modern NVMe-based SAN infrastructure
- Save SSD storage by 5 to 10x with inline data reduction technologies
- Accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with the lowest latency
- Minimize your data center footprint by storing up to 2PB of data in a 4U compact system
All Flash FAS - Challenges
New workloads such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, and deep learning require performance that first-generation flash systems couldn’t provide. More and more organizations are adopting a “cloud-first” strategy, which is driving the need for enterprise-grade data services across shared environments across on-premises data centers and the cloud. As a result, modern all-flash arrays must provide robust data services, integrated data protection, seamless scalability, and new levels of performance, as well as deep application and cloud integration.
All Flash FAS - Solutions
NetApp AFF systems are designed to help organizations accelerate their infrastructure transformation and drive data-driven strategies. AFF is a powerful scale-out platform built for virtualized environments, combining low-latency performance with best-in-class data management, built-in efficiency, integrated data protection, multi-protocol support, and non-disruptive operation. Powered by NetApp ONTAP data management software, AFF systems deliver the industry’s highest performance, exceptional flexibility, best-in-class data services, and cloud integration to help you accelerate, manage and protect business-critical data in the hybrid cloud.
All Flash FAS - Key Benefits
NetApp AFF systems deliver industry-leading performance, proven in SPC-1 and SPEC SFS industry benchmarks, making them ideal for demanding, high-transactional applications such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB databases, VDI, and server virtualization . AFF A-Series systems deliver the highest data storage performance to accelerate the demands of mission-critical enterprise databases and applications, providing the security and reliability to keep data available and secure, and the simplicity and flexibility required by agile organizations.
All Flash FAS - Products and Solutions
AFF A900
The AFF A900 all-flash array provides the highest data storage performance for databases and applications in the NetApp family of application platforms. Powered by NetApp ONTAP Enterprise Edition software, it provides full-featured data management, including unified support for SAN, NAS, NVMe-oF, and S3.
AFF A800
Designed for the most demanding workloads requiring ultra-low latency, the AFF A800 is the first flash array on the market to support NVMe SSDs and NVMe over Fabrics. It provides end-to-end NVMe connectivity between storage arrays and host servers for maximum bandwidth, high IOPS, and the lowest possible latency.
AFF A400
The AFF A400 system is a future-proof, next-generation all-flash end-to-end NVMe midrange storage system that enables you to modernize your infrastructure to increase the speed and responsiveness of business-critical applications. The A400 offers industry-leading cloud integration, new consumption models, and new support.
AFF A250
Ideal for mid-sized organizations and small businesses that require exceptional performance, the AFF A250 simplifies data services and cloud integration with management tools and cloud functions (cache, replication, tiering). It provides more cost-effective business continuity and powers enterprise applications with modern infrastructure
Enterprise Applications FAQ
New workloads such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, and deep learning require performance that first-generation flash systems couldn't provide. More and more organizations are adopting a "cloud-first" strategy, which is driving the need for enterprise-grade data services across shared environments across on-premises data centers and the cloud. As a result, modern all-flash arrays must provide robust data services, integrated data protection, seamless scalability, and new levels of performance, as well as deep application and cloud integration.
NetApp AFF systems are designed to help organizations accelerate their infrastructure transformation and drive data-driven strategies. AFF is a powerful scale-out platform built for virtualized environments, combining low-latency performance with best-in-class data management, built-in efficiency, integrated data protection, multi-protocol support, and non-disruptive operation. Powered by NetApp ONTAP data management software, AFF systems deliver the industry's highest performance, exceptional flexibility, best-in-class data services, and cloud integration to help you accelerate, manage and protect business-critical data in the hybrid cloud.
They support end-to-end NVMe technology, from NVMe-connected SSDs to front-end NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) host connections. These systems deliver the industry's lowest latency for enterprise all-flash arrays, making them the best choice for driving the most demanding workloads and AI/DL applications. With a simple software upgrade to a modern NVMe/FC SAN infrastructure, you can drive more workloads with faster response times without disruption or data migration.