GEC NEWS WIRENew EF560 Leads in Price-Performance with an Average Response Time of Under One Millisecond
NetApp has launched the EF560 all-flash array. Based on a new Storage Performance Council SPC-1 Result, the all-flash EF560 achieved the leading SPC-1 Price-Performance for all-flash arrays with an average response time of under one millisecond, at $0.54/SPC-1 IOPS.
At a time when new deployments of server platforms, CPUs, operating systems and enterprise applications are driving IT leaders to rebalance their data center infrastructure, George Kurian, executive vice president of Product Operations at NetApp believes that the new high-performance all-flash EF560 is exactly what enterprises need to serve their customers faster and provide a better overall user experience.
The other addition, the new NetApp E5600 hybrid array leverages the flash optimizations of the EF560 in hybrid configurations and delivers increased performance and reliability for more capacity-intensive SAN applications including data warehousing, email and backup.
According to Leah Schoeb, senior partner and analyst, Evaluator Group, “The flash-based storage market has shown incredible growth over the past year as the solutions available continue to evolve to meet the demands of today’s enterprise applications.”
