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DCIG Report: Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4004 Hybrid Storage Array Beats Nimble Storage CS500

Hybrid storage array with RealStor delivers enterprise technology to SMBs.

Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced a competitive advantage report published by DCIG entitled, Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4004 Tops Nimble Storage CS500 in Real-time Data Center Efficiencies, Flexible Multi-Protocol Support and an Enterprise-ready Platform.

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Authored by Chuck Cook, DCIG analyst, the report analyzes the architectural designs and key features of hybrid storage solutions from Dot Hill and Nimble and concluded that the AssuredSAN 4004 is an exceptional platform.

Offering up to 84TB of storage capacity per rack unit, the AssuredSAN 4004 with RealStor offers 3.5X the storage density of the Nimble Storage CS500, which is limited to 24TB of raw storage capacity per rack unit.

The versatility of the AssuredSAN 4004 allows it to fit in diverse environments while optimizing performance for business-critical applications,” said Cook. “Superior data center efficiency, flexible protocol support and enterprise-ready features combine to make the Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4004 platform a better fit than the Nimble Storage CS500 for many enterprise deployments.

This DCIG Competitive Advantage report validates what we’ve seen in our labs and in the field,” said Bill Wuertz, SVP, products and solutions, Dot Hill. “Dot Hill’s unique RealStor storage OS stands alone in its ability to provide true autonomic, real-time data movement to accelerate storage operations delivering data where customers need it, when they need it-in real time. Real time matters.

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Efficiency
The AssuredSAN 4004 goes beyond the CS500’s read caching, and utilizes flash for multiple functions including application as a high performance storage tier, along with read caching; and packs 3.5X the raw data into each rack unit.

Unlike Nimble Storage, network port types can easily be changed by replacing the SFPs provided by Dot Hill,” the report says.

Enterprise-ready
According to the report, the AssuredSAN’s active-active controller configuration is an enterprise expectation. With active-active controllers, data requests are executed through concurrent access to all logical volumes. If one controller goes offline, the remaining controller services requests without interruption.

This architecture efficiently utilizes all of the system resources (CPU, memory and ports). With Nimble’s active-standby configuration, half of its resources sit idle,” the report states.

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