The company also announced a cloud storage service to be sold by reseller partners.

The new FAS2220 is a 2U (3.5-in. high) array that holds up to 12 drives and has a starting price of around $8,000. It's aimed at companies with 100 to 1,000 employees, NetApp said.

Previous versions of the entry-level FAS2000 series arrays came with just 2GB of memory and a single-thread processor. The FAS2220 has the same price as its entry-level predecessor but was given a major performance boost with a new multi-threaded core processor and 12GB of DRAM.

The array scales up to 60 drives for a maximum of 180TB in capacity. Up to 6TB can be managed under a single controller.

In November, a new mid-entry level product, the FAS2240, which came with as much as 432TB of capacity but with a starting retail price of $7,500 for 6TBs.