In a recent press announcement NetApp states: "The complete FAS unified scale-out storage system portfolio is designed to support the most demanding enterprise application workloads. The FAS unified scale-out architecture enables organisations to adapt quickly to changing business needs, while delivering on core IT requirements for uptime, scalability, and cost-efficiency. "Enterprise applications, including those from VMware, Oracle, Microsoft, Citrix, and SAP, run fast, efficiently and reliably on NetApp. Our hybrid architecture, combined with our patented storage clustering technology, maximizes uptime and delivers low-latency performance to enable predictable application performance," it adds.