Network Appliance India has announced a new unified storage platform, the FAS900 series, which significantly expands the company’s solutions portfolio, evolving Network Appliance into a full-line storage supplier.

The FAS900 series is Network Appliance’s new flagship offering, which the storage major claims sets new industry leading standards for storage performance and scalability. With software updates from Data ONTAP, the FAS900 series is also the company’s first storage appliance to support fibre channel SAN environments, enabling Network Appliance to deliver the industry’s first unified storage engine capable of handling networked storage in SAN and/or NAS mode.

Additional products announced include NetApp SyncMirror software, the NetApp F825, and a 7TB NearStore R100 solution. The company also unveiled new professional services to expand its enterprise service portfolio.

Said Anal Jain, MD, India & SAARC, Network Appl-iance India, “With NetApp’s new enterprise so-lutions, customers will have the ability to architect an integrated and unified storage solution that allows them to manage and access information throughout their enterprise using the same platform to access NAS, SAN, and direct-attached storage. This is important because it further maximises their IT operations and contributes to driving down overall software development costs.”