Handle data growth and reduce IT disruptions by using Data ONTAP 8, the No.1 branded storage operating system.*

NetApp® Data ONTAP® 8 software delivers a unified storage platform for scalability and flexibility and features clustering capabilities to keep your business running nonstop. Data ONTAP paves the way for customers deploying Software-Defined Data Centers, which cut through the performance, availability, and efficiency limits of traditional hardware-silo models.

More customers use Data ONTAP than any other storage operating system^* because it enables business agility with no disruption to operations. In a single, feature-rich platform, clustered Data ONTAP lets you scale your infrastructure without increasing IT staff. Benefits include:

Non-disruptive Operations

• Perform storage maintenance, hardware lifecycle operations, and software upgrades without intbrightcoveerrupting your business
• Eliminate planned and unplanned downtime for continuous business availability

Proven Efficiency

• Drive pervasive storage-cost reductions by using the most comprehensive storage efficiency offering in the industry.
• Save time and money by consolidating and sharing the same infrastructure for workloads or tenants with different performance, capacity and security requirements.

Seamless Scalability

• Scale capacity, performance and operations without compromise, regardless of application.
• Scale SAN and NAS from terabytes to tens of petabytes without reconfiguring running applications.

^*Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker 2014 Q3, December 2014 (Open Networked Disk Storage Systems revenue)