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NetApp File Services Availability

Availability

Improve performance and uptime with durability SLAs and guaranteed availability and your choice of three performance tiers.

NetApp File Services Performance

Performance

Access files via NFS (v3, v4.1) or SMB/CIFS and reduce administrative overhead with intuitive management and RESTful APIs.

NetApp File Services Protection

Protection

Protect your data with instant recovery and in-place NetApp Snapshot copies. Replicate to remote locations for backup and disaster recovery.

NetApp File Services Efficiency

Efficiency

Reduce your costs with efficient data reduction and cold data tiering, saving up to 70% on cloud storage.

NetApp File Services Optimization

Optimization

Quickly create space-efficient copies of production or other data to accelerate application development and QA testing.

NetApp File Services Prevention

Prevention

Prevent unwanted access with inline and data-at-rest encryption. Address strict retention needs with write once, read may (WORM) file locking.

ONTAP Scale-out NAS: The best hybrid-cloud solution

NetApp build the NAS industry 27 years ago, and still lead the explosion of your data today with smart, powerful, trusted NAS solutions.

Why NetApp for NAS?

Keeping pace with growth while optimizing costs
After establishing the NAS industry 27 years ago, NetApp continues to innovate scale-out NAS for fast and scalable management of file-based unstructured data across hybrid multiclouds.

NetApp® NAS solutions simplify data management and help you keep pace with growth while optimizing costs. Our NAS solutions give you non-disruptive operations, proven efficiency and seamless scalability within a unified architecture.

Powered by NetApp® ONTAP® enterprise data management software, the scale-out NAS leverages the vast ONTAP ecosystem with significant innovation leadership and an aggressive vision for the future.

Smart

Simplify your data management with seamless cloud integration.

Powerful

Easily configure your storage at scale

Trusted

Customer proven to Protect Your Data Across Clouds

Leverage cloud innovation by consistently delivering enterprise data services in the cloud of your choice.​

Get started on your AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud cloud file services

Quickly and efficiently deploy NFS and SMB file services on the cloud of your choice using cloud-native storage services or self-managed storage solutions.

Effective file sharing in the cloud

File storage is ideal for many enterprise applications, and it is also commonly used for a variety of general-purpose file sharing workloads such as home directories, e-discovery, and storage for Linux and Windows virtual machines. Cloud storage can provide the scale, availability, and functionality you need for your general file sharing needs. The right cloud storage includes the intelligence and automation needed to accelerate innovation and improve operational efficiency.

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what is File Services

What is File Services?

A file server provides a central location on your network where you can store files and share them with users on your network. When users need an important file (such as a project plan) that is intended to be accessed by many users, they can access the file remotely on a file server without having to pass the file between their respective computers.

File service roles include the following role services:

  • Share and storage management
  • Distributed File System (DFS)
  • File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)
  • Network File System (NFS) Services
  • Windows Search Service
  • Windows Server 2003 File Services
  • BranchCache for network files

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Keeping pace with growth while optimizing costs
After establishing the NAS industry 27 years ago, NetApp continues to innovate scale-out NAS for fast and scalable management of file-based unstructured data across hybrid multiclouds.

NetApp® NAS solutions simplify data management and help you keep pace with growth while optimizing costs. Our NAS solutions give you non-disruptive operations, proven efficiency and seamless scalability within a unified architecture.

Powered by NetApp® ONTAP® enterprise data management software, the scale-out NAS leverages the vast ONTAP ecosystem with significant innovation leadership and an aggressive vision for the future.

  1. High performance
  2. Prevention
  3. Optimization
  4. Efficiency
  5. Availability
  6. Protection

A file server provides a central location on your network where you can store files and share them with users on your network. When users need an important file (such as a project plan) that is intended to be accessed by many users, they can access the file remotely on a file server without having to pass the file between their respective computers.

  • Share and storage management
  • Distributed File System (DFS)
  • File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)
  • Network File System (NFS) Services
  • Windows Search Service
  • Windows Server 2003 File Services
  • BranchCache for network files