NetApp has added new fashions to its all-flash ASA block storage household, inserted a brand new FAS hybrid flash filer (the FAS50), launched new E-series HPC-oriented SANs (the EF300C and EF600C) and expanded ransomware detection, plus restoration ensures to the block storage vary.

The brand new ASA A20, A30 and A50 are largely the results of part upgrades in CPU, PCIe and reminiscence. They occupy the vary at entry degree and mid-range within the ASA block storage household, and complement the present A70, A90 and A1K whereas changing the A250 and A400.

The A20 scales from 15TB (terabytes) to 734TB uncooked capability with 3.2PB (petabytes) doable with knowledge discount and as much as 19PB doable when clustered. These figures are 68TB to 1.8PB uncooked for the A50, with as much as 48PB efficient capability in a cluster.

NetApp’s ASA collection (All-SAN Array) is its flash block storage providing in {hardware} kind for on-premise deployments with the flexibility so as to add cloud capability. ASA is successfully NetApp’s AFF all-flash array household with NAS performance turned off.

All the brand new A collection arrays are 2U in kind issue. There’s considerably of an overlap when it comes to capacities between the A50 and the present A70, however the latter is available in a 4U kind issue to permit for higher connectivity choices, mentioned NetApp chief technologist Grant Caley.

“The [existing] greater spec arrays take playing cards that present extra I/O choices. On the decrease spec modular programs, it’s built-in.”

In accordance with NetApp, the A20 is 72% faster than the present A150, whereas the A30 and A50 are available as 109% and 171% extra fast than the A250 and A400 they supersede. The A150 and A250 had been launched in Might 2023, and had capacities of 0.5PB and 1.1PB respectively.

The improve to the ASA merchandise comes a bit after NetApp did equally for its AFF all-flash file storage-oriented merchandise. That delay is simply all the way down to the time it takes, mentioned Caley. “There are solely so many engineers within the day,” he mentioned. “And AFF is the platform that’s well-liked with clients.”

Elsewhere, NetApp has effected related part upgrades to its E-series fashions, with a brand new EF300C and EF600C. E-series arrived when NetApp purchased Engenio in 2011. They run the SanTricity OS and had been spinning disk solely, with flash added later as NetApp tailored them for its first foray into flash storage in 2013.

They’re nonetheless hybrid flash – which suggests they will even have HDDs – however the brand new fashions can now use high-density QLC flash drives in 30TB and 60TB capacities.

“I name it ‘easy SAN’,” mentioned Caley. “There are simply snapshots and replication in a really excessive density array with large throughput for HPC-type use circumstances.”

“And we’re seeing one thing of an upsurge in HDD reputation as flash prices have risen, principally for secondary and decrease efficiency workloads.”

There may be additionally a brand new entrant within the FAS vary. That is the successor to the long-established NetApp “filer” vary and continues to be hybrid flash. The brand new FAS50 slots in between the 2820 and the FAS70 and gives between 100TB and 10.6PB of uncooked capability in a excessive availability system and as much as 127PB in a cluster.

In the meantime, later this 12 months, NetApp will launch NetApp OnTap Autonomous Ransomware Safety with synthetic intelligence (ARP/AI) for block. These embrace a repackaging for block storage of NetApp’s ransomware ensures as Ransomware Detection Program, through which the corporate guarantees to assist the shopper recuperate freed from cost initially if its ransomware detection fails to identify the intrusion.

NetApp is assured it received’t come to this, and factors to its ransomware detection and restoration performance. This comes within the type of machine learning-based anomaly detection that spots uncommon patterns involving knowledge encryption, in addition to anomalous person exercise.

As with earlier iterations, when the AI spots anomalous exercise it triggers a direct snapshot to which the shopper can recuperate.

Lastly, in BlueXP – NetApp’s hybrid cloud storage administration platform – clients will now additionally be capable to simulate ransomware assaults and their restoration course of.