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Software
NetApp's devices use Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL), a log-structured file system created by the company.

WAFL is at the heart of NetApp's proprietary operating system, Data ONTAP. Data ONTAP includes code from Berkeley Net/2 BSD Unix, Spinnaker Networks technology, and other operating systems. NetApp touts Data ONTAP as a "universal data platform" across multiple cloud environments (both public and private), supporting every data type and location.

Data ONTAP Edge, launched in 2012, is a virtual storage appliance that runs under VMware and enables remote offices to connect to NetApp data center storage.

In October 2014, NetApp launched a cloud-based version of ONTAP, intended to simplify the process of moving data from public to private clouds. NetApp offers Cloud ONTAP both as a service on top of Amazon Web Services infrastructure and as a license.

NetApp's SANtricity OS powers its EF Series all-flash and E-Series storage arrays.

NetApp's OnCommand management software controls and automates data storage. OnCommand Cloud Manager provisions instances of clustered Data ONTAP between private and public cloud providers.

NetApp launched FlexArray, a software replacement of its V-Series product line, in 2014. FlexArray virtualizes external arrays so that they can be compatible with ONTAP. In June 2015, NetApp launched a software-only version of its All Flash FAS 8000 series of storage arrays. Based on Data ONTAP, the AFF8000 line enables streamlined movement of workloads from disk-based systems to flash storage. Also in June 2015, NetApp released a series of updates to Data ONTAP, called FlashEssentials, designed to improve its performance with all-flash arrays.

NetApp's overarching goal is to create a "data fabric" spanning private, hybrid, and public clouds to provide unified understanding and control of enterprise data. Data ONTAP is at the core of this strategy.

Hardware
Since the inception of NetApp, the line of NetApp filers has served as the company's flagship product. A network-attached storage (NAS) filer is a type of storage device with massive capacity that is designed for backup and sharing Ethernet connectivity. NAS filers offer scalable storage for file-serving purposes. NAS devices are typically used in file-level storage. File-level storage is usually cheaper than the common alternative, block storage, which is known for being more flexible.

NAS filers use NFS and CIFS protocols to communicate; NetApp also developed Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) to streamline performance. In 2002, NetApp added block-storage access as well, over Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI protocols.

NetApp's major hardware offerings include:
 * The FAS (Fabric-Attached Storage) series of storage arrays, which comes with Data ONTAP, includes products targeted to both mid-sized businesses and large enterprises, and offers unified storage—access to both block and file storage
 * The block-based E-Series, which runs the SANtricity OS and offers Dynamic Disk Pools, Intelligent Cache Tiering and NetApp's AutoSupport tool
 * The Engenio-based EF-Series of all-flash arrays, which also runs SANtricity and offers thin provisioning, snapshots and replication
 * AltaVault, a line of wide area network (WAN) data backup appliances acquired from SteelStore, intended to help customers integrate their existing data protection solutions to the cloud
 * FlexPod, an integrated infrastructure developed in partnership with Cisco and based on the FAS platform, with networking gear from Cisco and hypervisor technology from Unified Computing System and VMware’s vSphere
 * NetApp Private Storage, a partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which offers businesses a hybrid of on-premise private storage and cloud public storage