Description

The challenge Simplifying data management on premises and in the public cloud Organizations of every size face increasing pressure to simplify and secure their storage operations. They’re tasked with lowering overall storage spending while delivering efficient backup, tiering, and cyber vault capabilities for fast-growing SAN, NAS, and object datasets — and with quickly recovering backup data for a growing number of use cases. Businesses can achieve these objectives with a purpose-built secondary storage solution like NetApp FAS. Part of NetApp’s unified data storage portfolio, FAS is cost-optimized secondary storage that integrates seamlessly within your NetApp ONTAP OS ecosystem across on premises and cloud.

An ideal balance of capacity and performance storage that also simplifies your operations. Industry-leading data management NetApp FAS arrays, powered by NetApp ONTAP data management software, help you build a storage infrastructure that is economical, simple, and secure. The solution With FAS, IT can realize dramatic savings in the lifecycle cost of data by automatically offloading the estimated 60% to 80% of typical enterprise primary storage data that is cold data. FAS provides seamless scale of capacity and performance, fast recovery for Dev/Test and AI, and deep integration to public cloud with ONTAP, making it ideal for diverse use cases, including as a target for an ONTAP powered cyber vault. Economical, simple, and secure, FAS enhances operational efficiency, delivers effective data protection, and scales easily as you grow.

NetApp FAS systems cost-effectively deliver the data protection, security, and scalability to safeguard your data and drive operational efficiency. Whether you’re running a small business, a remote office, or a large enterprise, the FAS family’s leading range of unified capabilities for SAN, NAS, and object workloads make it an ideal solution for your general-purpose business applications as well as for backup and retention.

KEY BENEFITS

Economical

• Optimize the overall cost of storage over the data lifecycle with automated tiering and economical backup.

• Slash costs by automatically moving infrequently used data to cost-efficient hybrid flash storage.

• Preserve primary storage efficiency and use NetApp® FAS data reduction for additional savings.

Simple

• Flexibly adapt to evolving business needs with industry-leading hybrid flash storage.

• Simplify at scale by using FAS for backup and/ or tiering and/or cyber vault on the same NetApp ONTAP® OS as the rest of your hybrid cloud environment.

• Consolidate your 3-2-1 backup strategy entirely on a single cloud-connected storage OS and enjoy seamless integration with backup software vendors.

• Leverage policy-based data tiering that frees primary storage capacity.

Secure

• Rely on the safest storage on the planet to securely store your critical backup datasets.

• Safeguard your data with autonomous ransomware protection and guaranteed ransomware recovery.

• Deploy FAS as a resilient, logically air-gapped cybervault target.

• Use immutable NetApp Snapshot™ copies, lockable data, and role-based access control to prevent unauthorized access to data

Maximum scale-out	up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs)
Maximum Drives per HA Pair (2 nodes)	1440
Maximum Raw Capacity per HA Pair	14.7PB
Controller Chassis Form factor	4U 2x2U