A good response to EMC bulking up the VNXe and giving it Unisphere. EMC definately fired a shot with it's remote office management suite.
Competition is good.
After revamping the big model of its entry-level FAS 2000 arrays last November NetApp has boosted the smaller model and introduced combined flash-disk storage volumes. The FAS2220 slots in under the 2240 and its 432TB capacity, storing up to 180TB and starting at less than $8,000. It runs on the latest version of Data ONTAP, …
Yeah, they could have worded that quite a lot better.
I think they mean A-SIS would reduce capacity requirements by 50% over rivals.
As far as performance goes, the new bottom end FAS2220 is faster than the 3-year-old midrange FAS3140's I've got here. More cache and more cores, according the the website.