NetApp debuts EF50 & EF80
NetApp launched EF50 and EF80 EF‑Series arrays aimed at performance‑intensive workloads including HFT, AI and HPC—promising improved throughput, lower latency and greater scalability for matching engines and market‑data stores. The vendor positions these arrays for both on‑prem and hybrid deployments. (cxotoday.com)
NetApp’s announcement specifies the new EF50/EF80 can sustain more than 110 GB/s of read throughput and about 55 GB/s of write throughput versus prior EF models. (markets.ft.com) NetApp’s product page and release materials quantify the generational jump as roughly 2.5x faster and list peak write throughput around 57 GB/s in marketing collateral. (netapp.com) The arrays pack up to 1.5 PB of raw flash in a 2U building block and advertise a power-efficiency figure of ~63.7 GB/s per kilowatt for rack-density comparisons. (markets.ft.com) NetApp positions EF50/EF80 as NVMe-optimized block arrays running SANtricity, capable of up to ~2 million IOPS and sub-millisecond latency targets in its product documentation. (netapp.com) NetApp demonstrated the new models at NVIDIA GTC 2026 and highlights integration with parallel file systems such as Lustre and BeeGFS to serve as high-performance scratch for GPU clusters. (storagenewsletter.com) The vendor frames EF50/EF80 as block-only, high-throughput complements to its AFF/ASA portfolio and explicitly calls out “neocloud” providers and AI/HPC customers in the official Business Wire release. (techzine.eu)
