Over the last 20+ years, commercially available compute virtualization solutions such as VMware have become powerful tools used to lower costs, improve efficiency, ease management tasks, and improve on-premises flexibility. Over time,… Source link
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports the NVMe-over-TCP (NVMe/TCP) block storage protocol, allowing for accelerated block storage workloads with lower latency compared to traditional iSCSI block storage. This new feature simplifies multipath I/O (MPIO) configuration over iSCSI, making it easier to deploy applications like databases and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that rely on shared … Read more
Amazon has introduced the next generation of Amazon FSx file systems for NetApp ONTAP, offering increased scalability and flexibility compared to previous systems. The previous generation file systems consisted of a single pair of highly available file servers with up to 4 GBps of throughput. The new systems can now be built or expanded with … Read more
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now allows users to read data from a volume while it is being restored from a backup, improving recovery time objectives by up to 17x for read-only workloads such as media streaming and compliance verification. This new feature enables users to explore their backup and recover critical data within minutes … Read more
When it comes to infrastructural needs, it always boils down to price, performance and ease of use, both in the cloud and on-premise. To tackle the hustle of enhancing a software-defined data center with additional hosts, decoupling storage from compute and memory is of the essence and Amazon FSx for NetAPP ONTAP helps with this … Read more