Midrange storage

NetApp has added the FAS3160 and V3160 to its series of midrange storage devices.

The company has unveiled its plans to enable 8 Gb fibre channel support and provide enterprise flash solid-state drive storage and flash-based caching modules for its FAS and V-series products.

The FAS3160 joins the FAS3140 and FAS3170 models, giving users improved price/performance, flexibility and scalability.

The FAS3100 series offers users a single unified storage architecture to meet their needs and a common suite of application-aware software and management tools that are part of the Data ONTAP operating system.

In addition, with features such as thin provisioning, deduplication, RAID-DP and FlexCone, users can boost storage efficiency and performance.

The V3160 provides additional flexibility to meet diverse and changing business needs by extending the features and capabilities of Data ONTAP, including deduplication, to disk arrays from other storage vendors, such as EMC and HP.

The company is expanding its support of 8 Gb FC SAN solutions for all FAS and V-series storage systems.

Users can augment their virtualised data centres by addressing their server virtualisation demands on storage networks.

Users who upgrade to an 8 Gb SN can achieve higher performance and cost efficiencies because of shortened recovery times, increased productivity, faster data access and increased throughput for virtualised servers.