Network Appliance Unleashes Industry's First ``Scalable Storage Network'' Achieving Record-Breaking Performance and
Scalability
Wednesday November 29, 7:35 am Eastern Time
Press Release
Network Appliance Unleashes Industry's First ``Scalable Storage Network'' Achieving Record-Breaking Performance and
Scalability
NetApp® F840 Scalable Storage Network Demonstrates 120,206 SPECsfs97.v3 ops Per Second With an Overall
Response Time of 1.87 ms in Industry Standard Benchmark
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000-- Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP - news), the leading provider of
network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, today announced that the NetApp F840 Scalable Storage Network achieved an
unprecedented 120,206 SPECsfs97.v3 ops per second with an overall response time of 1.87 milliseconds with full RAID protection in the
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) SFS97 benchmark. SPEC is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain, and
endorse a standardized set of relevant computing benchmarks. By leveraging the ``building block'' approach of open storage networking, the F840
Scalable Storage Network extends the appliance model into the most demanding enterprise environments and provides the highest capacities and
performance for today's demanding enterprise applications. The Scalable Storage Network is ideal for deployment in large global enterprises,
content delivery networks (CDNs), Internet service providers (ISPs), application service providers (ASPs), and storage service providers (SSPs).
``The results of this independent benchmark clearly demonstrate what Network Appliance customers have known all along: Network
Appliance(TM) solutions are the optimal building blocks for scalable, global storage networks,'' said Mark Santora, senior vice president of
marketing at Network Appliance. ``These benchmark results also demonstrate significantly improved price and performance over competitive,
custom-tuned configurations, and are representative of the results customers are achieving in real-world environments -- be they global enterprise
customers, Internet service providers, content delivery networks, application storage providers, or storage service providers.''
``As storage demands increase, companies are realizing that they need high-capacity solutions that are easy to deploy and easy to manage, without
sacrificing performance levels,'' said Steve Dupliesse, senior analyst at Enterprise Storage Group. ``With the F840 Enterprise Filer, Network
Appliance has taken its successful, simplified approach to network-attached data access to a new level of scalability, reliability, and performance.''
The F840c and F840 Enterprise Filers, combined with Network Appliance's robust operating system Data ONTAP(TM), enable data access and
content delivery solutions to scale from tens to hundreds or even thousands of terabytes of data based on interoperable appliance building blocks.
The F840 Scalable Storage Network is an extensible appliance-based fabric providing easy, interoperable integration into complex IT
environments. By adhering to open storage networking protocols and technologies, the F840 Scalable Storage Network facilitates the simple
management, deployability, and cost-effectiveness of global storage networks.
Tested configuration:
16x Netapp F840 Enterprise Filers
16x Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
8 TB RAID-protected data
16 File Systems
Additionally, Network Appliance announced today SPECsfs97.v2 results for the NetApp F840 Enterprise filer. Tested in the same 16-node F840
Scalable Storage Network configuration, the filer achieved 250,573 operations per second and an overall response time of 1.58 milliseconds with
full RAID protection.
For additional information about the SPEC SFS97 benchmark, please visit specbench.org
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc., a veteran in network file storage and content delivery, has been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a
member of both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 index. Major corporations and service providers, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities,
Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions.
The company pioneered the concept of the ``network appliance,'' an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that
perform a single function. NetApp storage and content delivery platforms (filers and NetCache(TM) appliances) are coupled with powerful content
distribution and reporting software. This end-to-end solution offers seamless data management from the back-end data center to the edge of the
network quickly, simply, and reliably. The Network Appliance product portfolio utilizes the company's innovative data access software, known as
the Data ONTAP operating system, as well as standards-compliant hardware. It also offers multiprotocol support and transparent integration for
UNIX® and Windows® environments.
NetApp and the Network Appliance logo are registered trademarks and Network Appliance, NetCache, and Data ONTAP are trademarks of
Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered
trademark of X/Open Company Limited, in the U.S. and other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders and should be treated as such.
Contact:
Network Appliance Inc., Sunnyvale
Jaime Leigh Jinks, 408/822-3761
jjinks@netapp.com |
