NetApp announced the addition of the FAS3160 and V3160, adding to its current series of midrange storage offerings for customers. As part of the news, NetApp unveiled its plans to enable 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) support and provide enterprise flash Solid-State Drive (SSD) storage and flash-based caching modules for its FAS and V-Series products. "We needed a storage solution for our virtual server hosting service to help address the challenging nature of providing data management solutions to our enterprise client base at an overall cost point that could make the model sustainable," said Matt Stein, VP of Network Services, Primus Telecommunications Canada, a NetApp FAS3100 customer. "NetApp provided us with the performance and capacity desired while also delivering increased efficiencies and flexibility through features like deduplication and thin provisioning. Combined with our VMware solution, Primus is able to provide a high level of service to a broader base of our clientele with pricing that is competitive in the Canadian marketplace." NetApp said it will expand its support of 8Gb FC SAN solutions for all NetApp FAS and V-Series storage systems. The company said customers can now augment their virtualized data centers by addressing their server virtualization demands on storage networks.