HPE: Next Gen of Nimble Storage Platform With ‘Store More Guarantee’

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) announced the next generation of the Nimble Storage platform.

Backed by a company’s guarantee to deliver the best storage efficiency of any AFA, this storage platform is designed to take advantage of Storage Class Memory (SCM) and NVMe, protecting customer investments over the long term. The AFAs also offer customers a financial advantage by delivering up to 3x improvement in price-performance ⁽¹⁾.

“We know from our customers that storage capacity efficiency is important to them, so we’re proud to be the first vendor to offer a guarantee,” said Milan Shetti, GM, storage, HPE. “This guarantee further differentiates the HPE storage offering, which already includes HPE InfoSight, an industry-leading predictive analytics platform that prevents infrastructure problems before they happen, and is available for HPE Nimble and 3PAR storage customers.“

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Store more guarantee
When customers consider all-flash storage, capacity efficiency is essential because it drives down TCO and improves affordability. The firm’s Store More Guarantee assures that customers will store more data per raw terabyte of storage than other vendor’s AFA. Customers can have peace of mind knowing they will get a capacity-efficient AFA. If the company is not able to meet the storage efficiency of an all-flash competitor, the firm will accommodate the incremental storage for free.

“The new HPE Store More Guarantee allows us to future-proof our investment and makes it timeless,” said John Quinn, principal VCP, Merrimac Solutions, Inc. “We don’t have to worry about data reduction ratios in an AFA evaluation. A variety of HPE offerings, including all-inclusive software, free controller upgrade option and guaranteed six-nines availability, make it an easy choice for us to sandardize on HPE Nimble Storage.“

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NVMe and Storage Class Memory (SCM) ready arrays
As performance demands of real-time analytics applications continue to increase, so does the need for low-latency storage. The Nimble Storage arrays are designed to support NVMe and SCM and address the needs of web analytics, business intelligence, real-time trading, and other applications that require instant results. This storage arrays are future proofed as customers can take advantage of these emerging technologies without forklift upgrades.

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Preview SCM on HPE 3PAR
StoreServ architecture. The company storage customers across both the 3PAR and Nimble Storage portfolios have access to architectures built for the future, providing timeless value and investment protection. SCM delivers up to 10x lower latency compared to NAND flash technology.

Next generation Nimble Storage platform
The Nimble Storage AFAs deliver the same 99.9999% guaranteed availability as previous flash arrays – along with InfoSight predictive analytics. The AFA delivers substantially greater value with up to 220% ⁽¹⁾ better price-performance.

The Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash arrays are adaptive – merging hybrid and secondary flash technology into a single array. The arrays support inline variable deduplication, making them an efficient hybrid arrays. The Adaptive Flash array is a hybrid flash array for mixed, primary workloads where cost-efficient flash performance is important. It works as a secondary flash array for backup and DR while also allowing customers to run meaningful workloads like quality assurance, test-dev and reporting. The arrays deliver all-flash like performance with up to 150% ⁽¹⁾ greater price-performance than previous arrays.

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Availability:

• HPE Store More Guarantee is a pre-sales only guarantee available on all models of Nimble Storage AFAs.

• The Nimble Storage platform is available.

Resources:
Nimble Storage All Flash Array DS
Nimble Storage All Flash Array WP
Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Array DS
Blog: Together, HPE and Nimble Storage Will Deliver the Industry’s Leading Flash Storage and Predictive Analytics Portfolio
Blog: Put Your Backup Data to Work: A Q&A on the HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Array

⁽¹⁾ Based on testing by Nimble Storage Performance teams and US list price on May 7, 2018. Based on HPE comparisons with existing Nimble Storage products.