Customers with changing data centre demands can now benefit from an enhanced range of storage platforms, tapping into the newly launched benefits of NetApp’s enterprise-level FAS8080 EX and entry-level FAS2500 available locally from Comstor.The products are a core link in the vendor’s strategy to provide agile data storage solutions that are cloud ready and that provide customers with the agility, flexibility and cost efficiencies they require from their growing storage environments.

“While the world moves to the cloud the data bubble has exploded, driving up the demand for storage, but because of the inhibitive costs of these systems in the past – local companies have been reticent to move too much into a cloud environment in fear of that data bubble growing even more,” states Dorio Bowes, Business Development Manager at Comstor a Westcon Group company.

“The launch of NetApp’s FAS8080 EX and FAS2500 will go a long way to levelling the playing field for customers as they compliment the data strategies of both enterprise and smaller customers by being sensitive to price, but not reneging on quality and performance.”

According to NetApp, the FAS solutions are a core component of its unified scale-out storage systems and integrate the latest flash, networking, and processor technology innovations with the advanced storage and data management capabilities of its storage operating system, Data ONTAP. These systems are aimed at enterprises and service providers looking to change, grow or compliment their existing storage infrastructures.

In a recent press announcement NetApp states: “The complete FAS unified scale-out storage system portfolio is designed to support the most demanding enterprise application workloads. The FAS unified scale-out architecture enables organisations to adapt quickly to changing business needs, while delivering on core IT requirements for uptime, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

“Enterprise applications, including those from VMware, Oracle, Microsoft, Citrix, and SAP, run fast, efficiently and reliably on NetApp. Our hybrid architecture, combined with our patented storage clustering technology, maximizes uptime and delivers low-latency performance to enable predictable application performance,” it adds.