Many vendors offer high-performance all-flash arrays (AFAs) to address high-throughput workloads with random data access patterns and low latency requirements, such as virtual desktop infrastructure and online transaction processing. AFAs offer performance advantages over hard disk drive-based systems for these workloads, yet many of them lack critical capabilities in one key area: enterprise data management.
NetApp offers all-flash FAS storage arrays that can be deployed as part of a unified scale-out architecture and that benefit from the industry-leading data management features of the data ONTAP operating system. The combination of flash technology and enterprise data management delivers advantages in three major areas: performance, availability and storage efficiency.