Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has revamped its entire Nimble Storage range to offer all-flash and triple the performance of its previous generation.
HPE's new Nimble Storage platform comes with a “Store More Guarantee” that will see the hardware store more data per raw terabyte of storage than any other vendor’s all-flash array, or so the vendor claimed. It added that the guarantee means that if the Nimble hardware is not able to meet the storage efficiency of an all-flash competitor, it will offer the extra storage for free.
The range is designed to take advantage of storage class memory and NVMe to support “performance-intensive” applications like web analytics, business intelligence, real-time trading, and other applications that require instant results. HPE is confident its new range can support emerging technologies without customers required to forklift in upgrades.
The new HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash arrays merge hybrid and secondary flash technology into a single array and also support inline variable deduplication. It is aimed at mixed, primary workloads where cost-efficient flash performance is important. It also works as a secondary flash array for backup and disaster recovery while also allowing customers to run workloads such as quality assurance, test-dev and reporting, HPE said.
The vendor added that the arrays deliver all-flash like performance with up to 150% greater price-performance than previous arrays.
“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, HPE's storage GM. “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.”
The new HPE Nimble Storage platform is available immediately.
