NetApp Modernizes Object Storage with Enhanced Speed, Scalability and Security
NetApp, the intelligent data
infrastructure company, announced NetApp StorageGRID 12.0, a scalable,
software-defined object storage solution designed for unstructured data. This
latest version of StorageGRID will introduce new capabilities designed to
enhance AI initiatives, improve data security, and modernize organizations’
data infrastructure.
Whether businesses are in the
early stages of modernizing their data lakes or experimenting with advanced AI
applications, they need to manage and store exploding volumes of unstructured
data such as text, video, machine and sensor data, server logs, and more.
Businesses that want to tap into this growing ocean of data need a secure,
cost-effective, and scalable solution, making object storage an essential
component of their primary storage environment.
“As the proven industry leader in
on-premises object storage, NetApp StorageGRID provides the scalability,
cost-effectiveness, and performance needed to feed modern workloads like AI,”
said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise
Storage at NetApp. “Our latest updates enable customers to grow their
object-based data estates more securely and accelerate workloads so they can
focus on putting their data to work.”
NetApp StorageGRID 12.0
introduces new features designed to strengthen object storage in customers’
intelligent data infrastructure, including:
Improved Scaling for AI workloads: StorageGRID 12.0 includes new
capabilities for advanced caching that improve the efficiency and scalability
for AI training and other HPC workloads, boosting performance with up to 20x
more throughput than before. Additionally, it supports versioning AI datasets
with bucket branches. Customers can more easily iterate AI projects at scale,
facilitate testing and development workflows, and make their data stores more
resilient. This new feature enables users to quickly create space-efficient
clones of their object storage buckets to use in their workflows and enable
faster recovery in the face of disruption.
Simplified management: StorageGRID 12.0 includes numerous
enhancements ranging from better drive firmware upgrades to improved log
archiving abilities that are designed to simplify the administrator experience.
Administrators can automate drive firmware updates across all nodes, reducing
manual labor spent on maintenance tasks.
Enhanced cyber resiliency and security features: StorageGRID 12.0
includes updates that increase the security of object storage environments. The
solution now supports enhanced encryption standards with AES GCM encryption add
integrity checking, stronger on-disk encryption, and default blocking for SSH
ports. Customers also more easily support immutable datasets for AI by
leveraging the new support for object lock in cross-grid replication.
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