NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced NetApp StorageGRID 12.0, a scalable, software-defined object storage solution designed for unstructured data. This latest version of StorageGRID will incorporate new capabilities designed to optimize AI initiatives, improve data security, and modernize organizations’ data infrastructure.

Whether businesses are in the early stages of modernizing their data lakes or experimenting with advanced AI applications, they need to manage and store ever-increasing volumes of unstructured data, such as text, video, machine and sensor data, server logs, and more. Enterprises looking to access this growing volume of data need a secure, cost-effective, and scalable solution that makes object storage an essential component of their core storage environment.

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“As the established industry leader in on-premises object storage, NetApp StorageGRID delivers the scalability, cost-effectiveness, and performance needed to manage modern workloads like AI,” said Sandeep Singh, senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. “Our latest updates enable customers to scale their object-based data sets more securely and accelerate workloads so they can focus on optimizing their data.”

NetApp StorageGRID 12.0 introduces new features designed to strengthen object storage in customers’ intelligent data infrastructure, including:

  • Improved Scalability for AI Workloads : StorageGRID 12.0 includes new advanced caching features that improve efficiency and scalability for AI training and other high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, increasing performance by up to 20x. It also enables versioning of AI datasets with bucket branches. Customers can more easily iterate on AI projects at scale, streamline test and development workflows, and increase the resiliency of their data warehouses. This new feature allows users to quickly create space-efficient clones of their object storage buckets for use in their workflows and enable faster recovery from outages.

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  • Simplified Management : StorageGRID 12.0 includes numerous enhancements, from improved drive firmware updates to improved log archiving, designed to simplify the administrator experience. Administrators can automate drive firmware updates across all nodes, reducing manual maintenance tasks.
  • Enhanced cybersecurity and resiliency features : StorageGRID 12.0 includes updates that improve the security of object storage environments. The solution now supports enhanced encryption standards with AES GCM encryption, integrity checking, more robust on-disk encryption, and default SSH port blocking. Customers also more easily support immutable datasets for AI with new support for object locking in cross-network replication.

NetApp’s statements regarding unreleased offerings and future plans are for informational purposes only, are subject to change without notice, and should not be relied upon for purchasing or other decisions. Such statements do not constitute a commitment, obligation, or guarantee on the part of NetApp regarding availability, functionality, pricing, or timing.

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Source – businesswire

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