HPE has made improvements to its Nimble Storage range to offer all-flash and large performance gains.
It claims that the 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. 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 takes 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.
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.
HPE’s storage GM Milan Shetti said: “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. 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.”
