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Predictive All Flash Storage for the Modern Data Center

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HPE Nimble Storage Products & Technology Overview:

Are you struggling to find the perfect combination of flash storage and predictive analytics? HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays combine a flash-efficient architecture with HPE InfoSight predictive analytics to achieve fast, reliable access to data and 99.9999% guaranteed availability1. Radically simple to deploy and use, the arrays are cloud-ready, providing data mobility to the cloud through HPE Cloud Volumes. Your storage investment made today can support you well into the future, thanks to our technology and business-model innovations. HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays include all-inclusive licensing, easy upgrades, and flexible payment options – while also being future-proofed for new technologies, such as NVMe and Storage Class Memory (SCM).

What's new

  • Performance is up to 65% faster and twice the scalability of previous HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays2.
  • Cost-effective entry-level all-flash array.
  • HPE Store More Guarantee delivers more effective capacity per terabyte of raw flash than competitive all-flash arrays3.
  • Future-proofed for NVMe and SCM based on our timeless storage.
  • All Flash ArrayPredictive Analytics
    • HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays automatically predict and resolve 86% of problems before you even know there is an issue4.

    • Transforms the support experience through cloud-based predictive analytics and Level 3-only support.

    • Holistic view across the infrastructure stack to resolve problems beyond just storage.

    • Simplifies planning with prescriptive forecasts into capacity, performance, and bandwidth requirements.

    • Makes infrastructure smarter and more reliable by learning from the installed base.

  • Radical Simplicity
    • HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays are simple to deploy use, and manage.

    • This product is cloud-ready and deploys flash on-premises or in the cloud with common data services and mobility between all-flash, adaptive flash, and HPE Cloud Volumes

    • HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays are future-proofed for NVMe and SCM. The offering comes with a satisfaction guarantee, all-inclusive software licensing, flat support pricing, replacing all the hardware for upgrades, and an option to receive a free faster controller upgrade after three years.

    • Radically easy to integrate with many ecosystems and has a de

  • Absolute Resiliency
    • HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays has 99.9999% guaranteed availability.

    • Triple+ Parity RAID can handle three simultaneous drive failures and provides additional protection through intra-drive parity.

    • App-granular, FIPS-certified encryption provides data-at-rest and over-the-wire protection, data shredding is built-in.

    • Native application-consistent snapshots and replication, as well as integration with leading backup software.

  • Fast and reliable
    • HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays are scale-to-fit. They scale-up performance and capacity independently and non-disruptively; and scale out to four arrays managed as one for increased flexibility.

    • Up to 5X or more data reduction from variable block inline deduplication and compression.5

    • Backup and disaster recovery (DR) from all-flash to adaptive flash arrays at onethird the cost.

    • Data reduction, snapshots, and Triple+ Parity RAID with no performance impact.

    • Sub-millisecond response time for performance-sensitive enterprise workloads

HPE Nimble Storage Technology: All Flash

Key Benefits

Sheer Performance and Scalability
  • Scale-up capacity and performance non-disruptively in an array
  • Scale-out with up to four arrays managed as one
  • Up to 8PB+ and 1.2 million IOPS at sub-ms latency
33-66% Lower TCO
  • Requires 10-30X less memory
  • Cost and performance optimized for 3D-NAND
  • 5X or more data reduction from deduplication and compression
  • Backup, DR, and archival at one third of the cost
Absolute Resiliency
  • Non-stop availability measured at 99.9999%
  • Triple+ parity RAID
  • Integrated data protection
  • Application granular encryption and secure data shredding

  1. HPE Get Six Nines Guarantee: https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/Getdocument.aspx?docname=a00026086enw
  2. Based on HPE Engineering performance tests and measurements versus the previous generation of HPE Nimble Storage All Flash arrays.
  3. HPE Store More Guarantee: http://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=a00039975enw
  4. Based on actual customer data collected by the HPE Nimble Storage support organization. See https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/Getdocument.aspx?docname=a00018503ENW
  5. Based on customer data as analyzed by HPE InfoSight and also from data reduction evaluation by HPE Engineering.

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