NetApp launches EF50 and EF80 storage systems for AI and HPC workloads

NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced the release of its EF50 and EF80 storage systems, designed for performance-intensive workloads including artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and transactional databases.

The new EF-Series systems deliver over 110 GBps of read throughput and 55 GBps of write throughput, representing a 250% improvement over previous generations, according to the company's press release. The systems offer 1.5 petabytes of storage in 2U with power efficiency of 63.7 GBps per kilowatt.

"As businesses contend with ever-increasing data volumes and performance-intensive applications such as AI model training, AI inferencing and high-performance computing, they need infrastructure that delivers speed, scalability and efficiency without added complexity," said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp.

The systems are designed to work with parallel file systems like Lustre or BeeGFS to accelerate HPC simulations and support GPU utilization for high-performance scratch space operations.

NetApp said the EF-Series has more than 1 million installations. The company positions the new models for use cases including sovereign AI clouds, AI-powered manufacturing, and media libraries for movie studios.

"NetApp's EF-Series systems give Teradata the storage performance needed to support our most demanding workloads," said Sumeet Arora, Chief Product Officer at Teradata. "With the enhanced performance of the new models, we look forward to exploring opportunities to reduce infrastructure complexity."

The announcement targets enterprises and neoclouds requiring high-throughput, low-latency storage solutions for data-intensive applications.

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