Flash awards

At the 2014 Flash Memory Summit, NetApp, Inc. was honored with two awards for its leadership and customer flash implementation. NetApp was awarded Best of Show Most Innovative Flash Memory Customer Implementation for its EF-Series all-flash-array deployment at Diamond Light Source. NetApp was also selected by IT pros in the annual SSD survey as the Market Leader favorite for All-Flash NAS SSD. NetApp took the lead in the four additional categories of Performance, Reliability, Service, and Support and Innovation.

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By maximizing the value of flash across the entire compute, network, and storage stack, NetApp offers the industry’s most comprehensive flash portfolio, improving efficiency and accelerating business-critical application performance. By offering a broad portfolio that includes both hybrid and all-flash storage offerings, NetApp enables IT organizations to optimize their level of performance, efficiency, and scalability to meet their specific needs.


Best of Show—Most Innovative Flash Memory Customer Implementation
Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, generating brilliant beams of light, from infrared to X-rays, to explore the fundamental nature of matter. These powerful blasts of light enable scientists to study the atomic makeup of materials. For instance, “beamlines” allow researchers to examine the finest details of a protein’s structure, examine electrons as they move on the surface of a magnetic storage disk, and more.


Diamond Light Source needed a high-speed data buffer to store data locally that was coming off its beamlines. Diamond chose two NetApp® EF540 flash arrays with 12x 800GB SSD, designed for performance-driven applications with submillisecond-latency requirements. NetApp Star Partner Q Associates worked in close partnership with NetApp at Diamond Light Source.


“NetApp EF-Series provided the high-speed IOPS the customer was looking for. It is amazingly quick for the price point and very competitive for the performance and feature set,” said Nigel Horsell, chief storage architect at Q Associates. “Compared to alternatives, it was quick to implement and provides a storage solution well suited to this requirement. Additionally, it is very easy to scale the EF-Series to meet growing storage demands. It’s a simple process, and the customer can easily add more storage capacity as they need it.
 

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