NetApp Unveils New High-Performance EF-Series Models
NetApp, the Intelligent Data
Infrastructure company, announced the release of the next generation of NetApp
EF-Series storage systems, built to power the most performance‑intensive
workloads at scale. The introduction of EF50 and EF80 helps enterprises and
neoclouds meet the growing demands of AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and
transactional databases, including in emerging use cases like sovereign AI
clouds and AI-powered manufacturing.
“Data is the key component to
delivering business value for enterprises, underpinning performance-hungry
workloads like AI or databases,” said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and
General Manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. “As businesses contend with
ever-increasing data volumes and performance-intensive applications such as AI
model training, AI inferencing and high-performance computing, they need
infrastructure that delivers speed, scalability and efficiency without added complexity.
NetApp delivers a comprehensive portfolio that addresses every stage of the AI
data pipeline from collecting and preparing data to feeding it to GenAI models
that produce business insights. With the new EF-Series systems, purpose-built
for extreme performance, we’re enabling customers to deploy and scale
high-throughput, low-latency workloads quickly and efficiently, while reducing
data center footprint and operational overhead.”
Coupled with high-performance
parallel file systems like Lustre or BeeGFS, the new EF50 and EF80 systems
accelerate HPC simulations and keep GPUs fully utilized with high-performance
scratch space, helping organizations unlock new value and competitive advantage
at the right price. Customers ranging from neocloud providers driving AI
innovation to movie studios managing massive media libraries will benefit from
not only performance and scalability but also robust security measures to
safeguard sensitive information and prevent data loss.
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