NetApp has released a new version of its
SANtricity storage operating system with the intention of speeding up analytics workloads.
The release of SANtricity, which powers the storage vendor’s EF Series all-flash and E-Series storage arrays, is designed to improve performance of Splunk,
Hadoop and NoSQL workloads.
The storage vendors are gradually pitching all-flash arrays, with the intention of garnering big data workloads. NetApp’s move highlights the way in which storage vendors are trying to ride the analytics wave by speeding up performance.
NetApp informed users that it is using proactive monitoring, automation and configuration for high-throughput apps in order to boost performance. As per the company, the newest SANtricity can easily boost Splunk search performance by 69 percent in comparison to commodity servers with internal disks.
The company also informs users that Hadoop performance is boosted via data rebuilding processes with it Dynamic Disk Pool technology. Additional enhancements are designed in order to reconstruct solid-state drives for NoSQL databases faster, with improved tiering and encryption.
NetApp also added that it will be working with tech distributor Arrow in order to pre-configure and validate bundles designed for Splunk deployments in enterprises.