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NetApp Memory
Accelerated Data
Accelerate your applications with enterprise data
services and persistent memory

Key Features Move Your Business into the Future

Turbocharge Your Applications Data is the lifeblood of future-thinking companies. These data-driven companies are
• Give existing applications nearly instant harnessing unprecedented volumes of data to create new value across the organization.
access to data for reads and writes. Companies that can adapt to take advantage of this new avalanche of data will digitally
• Improve application performance transform their business and outpace their competition.
with high throughput and less than 10
microseconds of latency. However, taking advantage of today’s big data is often easier said than done. The rapid
growth in data is placing new stress on the entire IT infrastructure, particularly in the
Enable Enterprise Data Services for Your following use cases:
Applications in Persistent Memory
• Accelerate data recovery with • Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning
enterprise data management features, • Real-time analytics
such as mirroring, NetApp® Snapshot™ • Internet of Things (IoT)
copies, and protection for persistent • Video, social, mobile, and blockchain uses
memory (PMEM) in a server.
• Tier data to your NetApp ONTAP® These use cases depend on memory-hungry applications that are fueled by massive
based AFF all-flash systems. datasets. Data must be analyzed and shared in real time, creating a need for a new class
• Extend ONTAP data management of memory-based data services.
capabilities into the server while
providing near-memory-speed PMEM in the server provides low-latency, solid-state memory next to the processor,
performance. enabling performance gains that will force developers, users, and administrators to
rethink how and where they store data. Until now, it has been impossible for developers
Optimize Efficiency to take advantage of this promising new memory tier without rearchitecting their
• Immediately take advantage of PMEM critical applications.
without the need for application rewrites.
• Lower your TCO by simplifying Enable New Business Opportunities with Superior Performance
infrastructure requirements for PMEM and Ultralow Latency
and storage. NetApp makes the impossible possible with NetApp Memory Accelerated Data (MAX
• Improve performance for Oracle and Data). MAX Data software runs on the application server and uses both the PMEM
reduce license costs. and the storage tier. Your application gets nearly instant access to the data for both
reads and writes. MAX Data is not caching software. Caching is optimized for read-only
workloads and has much higher management overhead due to cache coherency. With
MAX Data, you get vastly improved application performance with high throughput and
less than 10 microseconds of latency.
 MAX Data on Host Server with AFF and ONTAP

MAX Recovery

Memory-optimized file system

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Secondary tier — flash
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NetApp Memory
Ultrafast application data
recovery using mirroring Red Hat 7.5
(memory-to-memory replication) CentOS 7.5

LUN
HA SnapMirror® mirroring
to disaster recovery site
Secondary
high-throughput tier

Figure 1) MAX Data is memory-centric, server-side storage software that accelerates application performance.

What is the best part? Taking advantage of this capability does not MAXimum Data Services
require any application rewrites. You can take advantage of PMEM In the past, nonvolatile memory could support only reads,
today for Oracle, MongoDB, and many other real-time applications. limiting real-time applications to volatile memory. Today, PMEM
supports both reads and writes. But to take full advantage of
MAXimum Performance—Faster Than Flash PMEM for real-time workloads, you need a way to back up and
With MAX Data, you can realize the promise of real-time data protect that data by using enterprise data services.
analytics to deliver orders-of-magnitude faster transactions for
business applications, such as Oracle, and for NoSQL databases, Being able to use PMEM is one thing; making it resilient to
such as MongoDB. MAX Data gives you the tools to unlock the server failure is much more complicated. MAX Data enables data
value of enormous datasets with in-memory and machine- resilience with minimal impact on performance and provides
learning applications at near-memory speed. last-write safety. The NetApp Memory Accelerated Recovery
(MAX Recovery) feature enables you to mirror and protect PMEM
Faster-than-flash performance can be a game changer for in a server and to use Snapshot copies for fast data recovery.
financial services companies, where faster trading results in
higher revenue. Credit card companies can accelerate fraud As data ages, you can tier it to an ONTAP based AFF system
detection to reduce loss due to theft. And for e-commerce and leverage all the data management capabilities in ONTAP,
companies, faster analytics can drive better personalization; including high availability, cloning, Snapshot copies, backup, and
more clicks mean more sales. disaster recovery.
MAXimum Efficiency Don’t Look Back
With the performance gains from MAX Data, you will need The NetApp Data Fabric is built for the future, supporting
fewer servers to achieve high performance and lower latency both traditional and emerging applications, such as NoSQL
for more application workloads, simplifying your infrastructure databases and artificial intelligence. It offers the industry’s only
requirements and lowering your TCO. For example, with MAX unified data management platform that supports SAN and NAS,
Data, you can dramatically improve performance of your Oracle all-flash storage, software-defined storage, hybrid cloud, and
applications, reduce license costs, and accelerate recovery during cloud. You can scale up and out dynamically in seconds or in
a node failure. minutes, instead of taking hours or days. And you can allocate
applications to where they run best, whether it’s on the premises
MAX Data also enables in-memory databases—such as or in the cloud.
MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase, and Redis—and emerging
machine-learning applications to run huge datasets at near-
memory speed. You can speed time to value while simplifying
infrastructure and reducing costs. With MAX Data, artificial About NetApp
intelligence applications can benefit from the ability to analyze NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. We provide a full
larger working datasets (several times more than memory size) range of hybrid cloud data services that simplify management
with ultralow latency for real-time decisions. And by converging of applications and data across cloud and on-premises
memory and storage into one layer, MAX Data can improve environments to accelerate digital transformation. Together
efficiency and further reduce costs. with our partners, we empower global organizations to unleash
the full potential of their data to expand customer touchpoints,
Get Ready for the Future with MAX Data foster greater innovation and optimize their operations. For more
Your ability to support new applications and to take advantage information, visit www.netapp.com. #DataDriven
of exploding data growth is the key to enabling digital
transformation. There’s no question that when it comes to
enabling high performance and low latency for big data, PMEM is
a silver bullet. With MAX Data, you can take advantage of PMEM
today without rearchitecting your applications. Why wait? Take
advantage of tomorrow’s technology today.
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